Unfortunately the is a certain amount of mob mentality in the crowd, mixed with alcohol.
Also a fairly high percentage of 'bogan' footy fans, for lack of a better word.
Even on the Swans feed on Facebook, it is clear that there has been a high proportion of fans who are missing a chunk of education, based on spelling and grammar alone (and you thought it was bad at RWO at times)
Don't think that there isn't an undercurrent of racism out there - Pauline Hanson got where she did due to what some would consider racist points of view.
I remember going to Victoria Park and standing behind the goals wearing a Swans scarf and I thought that was a pretty daring thing to do at the time given the looks, comments and scowls I got. Even though I could see 4 or 5 police withing 10 meters of me at any given time.
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