Makes the point that this is Chelsea and West Ham's problem, but I still think that I've not heard anyone drive the ball home yet by trying to re-frame the debate. Everyone is just responding to Baddiel, but his mind is made up and he considers the matter closed. No amount of "fraternal spirit" arguments are going to change his mind, but if there was a concerted effort to re-frame the debate for the public at large, then maybe Spurs wouldn't seem the villains anymore.
The question should be: Why should the focus be on Spurs fans -- with the inordinate police presence targeting Spurs fans only -- while, beyond club statements of intent, supporters of Chelsea, West Ham, et al have in effect been given carte blanche for gas chamber hissing and Adolf Hitler chants? There has been absolutely no wider media coverage of the role that such supporters of Chelsea and West Ham have had in fostering such an atmosphere of hate, the focus has entirely been on the lone Spurs fan that was arrested for refusing to recognize the zero tolerance policy.
It seems that the FA and authorities are more concerned with Spurs supporters' offending opposing fans, rather than the vitriolic hate being spewed by large numbers of those fans at Spurs supporters.
The famous motto of Field of Dreams was "If you build it, they will come", but it seems the mantra of Baddiel, Herbert, and the FA is "If you ban it, they will quit." Well, consider me skeptical given that these are the same fans that chanted anti-semitic hate for years before Spurs fans ever embraced "the Y word."
