Jeg har været Brøndbyfan siden starten af 90’erne og jeg er træt af, sur og frustreret over at Brøndby stort set ikke kan spille en kamp uden, uden at der er ballade udenfor bane. Indsæt selv utallige eksempler.
Det der skete i søndags er selvfølgelig uden for kategori og totalt uacceptabelt. Og der er ingen tvivl om at klubben slet ikke har gjort nok. De har set gennem fingre, overhørt advarsler, været naive og inkompetente.
Jeg forstår 100% de FCK fans her i tråden, der er frustrerede over inkompetencen, og så glemmer vi lige for et øjeblik, FCK har deres egne problemer på denne front.
Til dem af jer der mangler en klar udmelding, så lavede BrøndbyLyd tidligere på ugen en podcast med Scott Krase, der repræsenterer majoritetsejeren Dan Blitzer. Krase taler - for mig - overraskende lige ud af posen og lægger ikke fingre i mellem. Link til podcast her: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/br%C3%B8ndbylyd/id1087759943?i=1000674858526 (Emnet starter ca. 04.00 inde og fortsætter til omkring 12.00)
Transskription af afsnittet hvor de taler om “mask-clad criminals” (det er vist autogenereret, så der kan forekomme fejl, men det ser nu ret præcist ud) her:
“Nanna BrøndbyLyd: And unfortunately, it was not only a boring game. It was... Yeah, the headlines have been, of course, about some hooligans doing some shit that none of us like to see.
So, how do you see all of that, and what can the club do to exclude them?
Scott Krase: So, I was here on Sunday, and my story... Everybody saw what happened before the game, for those who have seen it on YouTube or X or whatever. My story is at the end of the game, I was leaving.
I was actually in the hallway with a couple of players and their families, and all of a sudden the security guards were screaming and telling everybody to come inside. And everybody made it inside, and they shut the metal gates, except for one family. And there was a family outside, and they couldn't make it across the parking lot.
And there were three kids, three little kids, and two parents, obviously, in the, and stuck. And watching the kids hold on to their parents' legs, and watching the parents cover their kids as a group of, say, 150 mask-clad criminals decided to parade down the parking lot, you know, I think was a memory that I will not forget. And so, that's where I start.
And what I mean by that is, these are criminals. They're not hooligans. They're criminals.
Hooligans is endearing. Soccer hooligans, yay, there's books and movies and things of that nature. That's not what these people are.
And unfortunately, there's a lot of young people. It's not certainly just one group in terms of their makeup. And so you ask, what can the club do?
I think there are four constituents that have to work together to solve this problem. It is the management of the club. And we met yesterday for hours with the management of the club.
And for those that don't know, there were five security guards that were attacked. One severely beaten. Those are our employees and I consider them family.
And they work with us. They are our partners. And so an attack on management security guards is an attack on the club, everyone involved.
So that's one constituency, the management of the club. And I can assure you that they're super engaged. The second is ownership.
We have to do our part in terms of whether it's financial resources or human resources, we have to put time, effort, money, and resources into the solution, whatever that is. Third is the fan groups. And I think we share the view that there were 25,900 awesome, amazing Brøndby fans on Sunday.
And there was 150 criminals. And so the 25,900 have to work with senior management and ownership to help us eradicate the 150 from the stadium. And as you said, exclude them.
And we're doing that to make the other 25,900 have what they have paid for and what they want, which is an experience at the stadium, many with their families, to enjoy a Sunday, to enjoy a football match, to enjoy each other's company, and not have to hold on to you the leg of your parent because you're afraid, because there's 150 people with masks coming at me with other weapons and other things. And lastly, the fourth group is the community, defined as police, other community leaders, civic leaders. As I said, a lot of the people were boys, young boys or young people, couldn't tell if boys or girls, but we need to do a better job of communicating with that group and trying to actually turn into a positive our engagement with them.
And I've been working in charity my whole life. I've been working in youth sports my whole life. Sports is a great mobilizer of community and spirit and togetherness and somehow and somehow I feel like we need to get what is the most important asset in this whole community, the sports and the football club.
And we need to connect better with that element. Because at the end of the day, there's probably 20 people that we really have to exclude. And I think the other 100 would actually like to be here watching the game and not doing what they were doing.
That's what my gut tells me.
So there's work going on in the club too?
This is a very complex problem. There are solutions. There are blunt force solutions.
There are technology solutions. There are engagement solutions. The problem is there's not one thing.
If it was easy, we would have done it already, or we would do it immediately. I will make it really crystal clear. This is not us asking for people to stop behaving badly.
We're done with asking, because that doesn't work. We are going to take every single necessary step, no matter what we have to do, to make sure that that group does not ruin it for the other 25,900. And just for everybody who listens, and I know there's a lot of listeners, they've already ruined it.
They've already hurt this club substantially. Forget about the economics, okay? Because the economics is just us paying money.
They've ruined the reputation of the club. They've tarnished the league. They've tarnished the team.
They've tarnished the community. And obviously, it wasn't just us. It was our friends at the other club this weekend as well.
But this behavior has got to stop. And it's not us asking nicely anymore. So, crystal clear, we will take definitive steps to make sure to the best of our ability that that never happens at our stadium again, whatever that means.
And sadly, sadly, there will be a cost to the fans. The cost will be longer lines maybe, stronger security checks, different procedures to get in the stadium, different procedures to get a ticket, different procedures to sit, different procedures to leave. Unfortunately, that 150 people will have made a very significant, damaging, almost permanent mark on this club.
People go to the airport and they think, Oh my goodness, look at the time that we all spent at the airport taking off our shoes and throwing away our one ounces of toothpaste or whatever we're doing. And the actions of a very small group of people have changed the world's travel. Now here, we have the actions of 100, 150 people.
And I'm sad to say that it will change the way that we have to interact with the entire stadium. People may have to get here earlier, people may have to stay longer, people may have to not go to certain sections. We may have to limit movements.
We're evaluating every single option with the goal of having Brøndby be a fun, safe, exciting, awesome experience for not just the fans, but the players as well on both teams, to be clear.”