FRASER Wishart, the chief executive of PFA Scotland, has expressed his concern about the rise in use of pyrotechnics at football matches and warned the fans responsible they are endangering the players they are cheering on as well as themselves.
An alarming number of domestic and European games involving Scottish clubs this season have seen bangers, flares, rockets, smoke bombs and strobes set off in the stands - and often thrown onto the park - by supporters.
Wishart, the head of the independent trade union for professional footballers in this country, believes the practice is putting his members’ health and personal safety at risk and would like to see increased attempts made by clubs, the football authorities and police to snuff it out.
