However, over the past 12 months, I have heard evidence from sheriffs that they are willing to use the existing breach of the peace laws and to impose football banning orders in appropriate cases if they perceive that the general mood in wider society is for them to be used more robustly than they have been.As a consequence of the game on 22 March—at which, we should remember, it was the behaviour of the players and managers, not the fans, that precipitated people’s concern—and the subsequent public debates, there would have been in any event a greater willingness on the part of the judiciary to use football banning orders and to impose sentences of imprisonment.Two months ago, we heard a case that involved a Celtic fan who was visited with three months’ imprisonment and a five-year FBO—FBOs are invariably a maximum of one year up here—for directing the N...