Widely considered to be unruly and destructive behaviour,actions such as brawling,vandalism and intimidation are enacted by fans of association football clubs.
This is known as football hooliganism.
Just like a canker, the behaviour of shouts and small-scale fistfights, through to huge riots where fans especially, attack one another or match officials, has become an erosive spreading sore in Ghana football. The game that helps to foster unity and bring people together has now become the game of stadium brawls causing fans to flee in panic.
Looking at our exploits in the Africa and international stage, Ghana can never be dismissed to an inferior rank or position in terms of football. Can that be said about the local league? No doubt, every domestic league in the world has its own problem but what many football fans do not want to see is hooliganism, and undeniably, it happens to be the major problem in our local league.
The disorderly mass at our league centres are some of the reasons why people refuse to go the stadia to watch league matches thus this issue must be addressed with no action of another in disregard of one's rights. I wouldn't want to recall all incidents of violence because this canker has reared its offensive and displeasing face at almost every league centre. So to speak, it is a national problem which needs much attention and if nothing is done about the advancing cases of violence, the league which is already losing its attractiveness will no longer have relevance or significance.
The game of football is three things,win, lose and draw but that's not the issue in our part of the world. And that's what make the fans in Europe unique or being without a like. They are able to accept defeat unlike the fans in our local league who are always ruled by their hearts. They have always failed to recognize that a loss or a draw cannot be avoided. So then, the question has always been just how good can situations turn around?
As a measure to discourage others, fans who misbehave must not be spared and should be made to face the full harshness of the law and the stiffest of punishment meted to them. The media also has a role to play in dealing with hooliganism in our game. For they must be bold in naming and putting to shame culprits, and most importantly educating football enthusiasts to be polite and well mannered at match venues.
More so, if we are able to instill this into our football fans, we stand a barely adequate or no amout of hooliganism in Ghana football.
LONG LIVE GHANA FOOTBALL!! !!
NANA YAW OLALLA
@FUSSBOL TALKZ
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