SFA want to avoiding using new banning powers over pyro use
And earlier this year, Celtic and Rangers - as well as Motherwell - were charged by the SPFL after fans disrupted both League Cup semi-finals with flares and had 500 tickets removed from their allocation for the final."It's been documented in Uefa sanctions that the threat of ticket reductions has an impact - and the SPFL have used that after the League Cup semi-finals - so maybe that's something that we need to consider," Maxwel added."The changes we have made to our rules will mean we can now work more with the SPFL to help eradicate that."Maxwell would not say if this was a step towards strict liability.Clubs in European competition under Uefa's jurisdiction have been subject to those rules but Scottish authorities - led by the clubs - have held off on applying those rules domestically. "Uefa have had strict liability for a long time, which has involved fining clubs, but there's no consequence to the individual on that," Maxwell added."It's the club that gets fined, so the supporter doesn't link that back to his or her behaviour. So it's about creating that jeopardy and creating that consequence for the behaviour that we're trying to remove.""We've got hundreds of thousands of people that come and watch our games on a weekend, and we need to make sure that environment is energetic and is noisy. We don't want to quell that, but fundamentally it has to be safe."
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