MLS Fans Too Soft On Past Flare Situations

By Andrea Canales Goal

Canales Daily: Fans, Do No Harm
Fans should not be putting fellow spectators or players at risk, but that’s what happens when anyone involves flares during a game.

As diverse a game as soccer is, celebrated in different ways by supporters around the world, certain basic precepts for good fans should exist.

The central principle of nonmaleficence is something that should be at the core of behavior in any soccer stadium. Or, as my mother would admonish me at times, “Don’t hurt anyone.”

A lot of what crowds of enthusiastic fans do follows this basic guideline. Cheering, yelling insults to referees and encouragement to players, singing, chanting, doing the Wave, the Macarena, the hustle, or the back-and-forth jumping some supporters manage while shoulder-to-shoulder, a kind of sideways conga line, won’t generally injure anything.

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