‘It was 10 seconds of stupidity’: Inside the education course for football’s banned fans

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The Athletic was granted unprecedented access to Kick It Out's restorative justice course. This is what we found out.

His team were drawing 1-1 at the time. It was late in the game, under the floodlights, when they missed a chance to take the lead. And that was the moment, Tony, a fan, lost his temper and shouted something at , the goalkeeper, that he would never be able to take back. Advertisement “We’d just had a shot that had gone wide. The goalkeeper went to pick up the ball from behind the goal and he made a little gesture to the away fans.

He has been trained in hate crime procedures and worked as an anti-social behaviour officer in London. Alan Bush, who runs Kick It Out’s education course for banned fans. “At the end of the session, he asked me what I was going to do when I was allowed to go to matches again,” says Tony. “I told him, ‘I will just sit there quietly and jump up when we score, which isn’t very often as a Sheffield United fan’.

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