article_snippet: Mr Clarke said: 'If people do something wrong, people must expect to be sanctioned.
article_snippet: Are we really saying that in 50 years' time, one of these young people - if it was young people - couldn't take their grandchildren to a football match?
article_snippet: We would certainly advise fans not to do that.
article_snippet: If there was criminal damage to some seats, that's quite wrong and, again, anybody who is identified as being responsible for that must expect to receive some sanction.
article_snippet: people damage things.
article_snippet: It's wrong and it's deplorable, but one incident at one football match when these kind of things happen very regularly in pubs and clubs on a Saturday night up and down the country gets blown up out of all proportion. '
article_snippet: Sometimes, people misbehave, at football matches, in pubs, in clubs, in the street or wherever, and that's deplorable.
article_snippet: But let's not castigate football fans for just one incident. '
article_snippet: The actual incidence of disorder at football matches has hugely declined in recent years, so that's a cause for celebration.'
article_snippet: Clarke, who wished the unnamed man a full recovery, said: 'Whether Clarke, who wished the unnamed man a full recovery are a football fan or whether Clarke, who wished the unnamed man a full recovery are not, it's totally unacceptable to assault people to any extent, but particularly to that extent, so obviously if Clarke, who wished the unnamed man a full recovery are caught presumably Clarke, who wished the unnamed man a full recovery will be brought before the courts and the law will take the law course, which is entirely appropriate. '
article_snippet: Football fans should never be above the law.'