Not cricket?

Original title: Weinig over de schreef.

For many Dutch people, sport is an enjoyable way of spending their leisure time. Many people are themselves active participants in sport or attend matches. Top-level matches attract a great deal of media attention. A smaller but no less enthusiastic group of people are active as volunteers for sports clubs.

In most cases, being involved in sport is a pleasurable experience, but there are also less palatable sides. The television images of football violence or obscene chanting on the terraces are well known, but many amateurs in sport have also experienced unpleasant incidents. The severity of these forms of undesirable behaviour varies, as does their impact on those who witness them and those who are the targets of them. This undesirable behaviour can take diverse forms, such as theft, vandalism, threats, physical and verbal violence, discrimination and nuisance caused by smoking, alcohol or noise.