If football wants help from the justice system in stemming the tide of moronic behaviour flowing from the stands, then it needs more than a 24-week prison sentence for the cowardly hooligan who floored Billy Sharp with a flying headbutt.
Imagine if someone did to you on the street what Robert Biggs did to Sharp. You would be disgusted if they got a mere three months behind bars - because that is all he will serve - and a financial slap on the wrist (£500 compensation order).
As for the 10-year football banning order he was given, it should go without saying that Biggs should not see the inside of a football stadium ever again. If these incidents are to be stopped, the law will have to help. And if football wants to help itself, then draconian punishments from within the game have to be agreed.
