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Fans Vent Anger At Football Federation Australia With Mass Walkouts

Football Federation Australia fans "staged a number of walkouts and protests during A-League games over the past four days," according to Ray Gatt of THE AUSTRALIAN. Reacting to what they believe is the FFA's failure "to come to their defence in the wake of a report of crowd violence in The Sunday Telegraph last week, the fans took matters into their own hands at most round eight games." The newspaper "named and shamed 198 A-League fans who had been banned for various offences and for periods ranging from 12 months to 20 years." The release of the "shame file" caused outrage in the football community with many believing there is a "vendetta against the sport." They also argued that FFA "had treated the banned fans unfairly, denying them the right to a proper legal process, including an appeal." The protests "started at the game against Wellington Phoenix on Thursday night with Sydney FC's main fan group, The Cove, unfurling a number of banners during the night that were highly critical of the treatment of the sport by the non-football media and the sport's administrators." Hundreds of fans from Victory's North Terrace group "walked out en masse at the 30 minute park with their team leading 2-0" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 11/30). In Sydney, Dominic Bossi wrote FFA "vowed to finally open an appeals process for banned spectators after about 1000 Western Sydney Wanderers supporters walked out of an A-League game." A-League CEO Damien De Bohun "declared the FFA is developing a system for innocent fans to have their spectator bans overturned." Just half an hour into the match against Central Coast, "the entire Wanderers active supporter group marched out." Even the Mariners' brass band "stopped playing." De Bohun said, "We are formalizing a process that if a banned spectator can prove to us, through new evidence, that there has been a mistake made, they can bring that evidence to the club, that club can work with us and the fan through that issue" (SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 11/29).

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