Naysayers and Deniers
Football's 'naysayers' and 'deniers' are out in force ahead of the summit to discuss the fall-out from last week's Old Firm game in Glasgow.
Keep politics out of football they say - but if the clubs refuse to take responsibility for their behaviour - exactly who else will hold them to account?
The politicians and police will find no easy answers - nor will the clubs - but the sight of grown men squaring up to each other over a football game is plainly ludicrous.
So that would be a good starting point - the clubs agreeing that there is a real problem for them and the football authorities to address - instead of just trying to brush things under the carpet.
The wider social problems of drink fuelled violence - will not be solved on the back of one out of control football game - in Glasgow or anywhere else.
But bad behaviour from players and staff can only make these problems much worse - both on the day of a match and in the longer-term as well.
Surely that's a simple point - on which everyone can agree.
Keep politics out of football they say - but if the clubs refuse to take responsibility for their behaviour - exactly who else will hold them to account?
The politicians and police will find no easy answers - nor will the clubs - but the sight of grown men squaring up to each other over a football game is plainly ludicrous.
So that would be a good starting point - the clubs agreeing that there is a real problem for them and the football authorities to address - instead of just trying to brush things under the carpet.
The wider social problems of drink fuelled violence - will not be solved on the back of one out of control football game - in Glasgow or anywhere else.
But bad behaviour from players and staff can only make these problems much worse - both on the day of a match and in the longer-term as well.
Surely that's a simple point - on which everyone can agree.
