How to treat the punishment given by AFC officials to Evergrande fans?

In the fifth round of the AFC Champions League group match in the 20 17 season, when Guangzhou Evergrande challenged the Hong Kong Oriental team away, Evergrande fans pulled out banners involving political slogans, and the fans of the two teams swore at each other, which triggered a heated discussion. Hong Kong Oriental Club also appealed to the AFC after the game, hoping to investigate the matter and punish Evergrande. 2065438+On May 4th, 2007, AFC officially announced the penalty decision, and made a "two-year postponement of empty matches" and a heavy penalty of $22,500.

In the AFC Champions League match against Hong Kong Oriental, Evergrande fans held high banners in the stands, which was full of political significance. After the game, the spokesmen of the Hong Kong Oriental Club and the Hong Kong Football Association said that they would appeal to the AFC and wait for the AFC's ruling.

Subsequently, the AFC launched an investigation into this matter and asked Evergrande Club to give a reasonable explanation. Otherwise, Evergrande will be punished by at least two empty matches and high fines in accordance with AFC AFC AFC AFC Champions League rules. After receiving the news from AFC, Evergrande took the initiative to complain. On the one hand, it provided live video, pictures and other evidence of the day's game, proving that the incident was only the personal behavior of individual fans. At the same time, Evergrande Club also stressed that not all the fans in the visiting team area are Guangzhou fans, including Hong Kong fans and foreign fans.

On April 28th, 20 fan clubs in Guangzhou issued a statement explaining the banner incident. They said that after investigation, four people in the fans' area of the visiting team held up banners suspected of being politically inclined. Further verification, these four people are not registered members of the fan club. Fans will have no idea about their true identity and how they can pass the strict security check at Mong Kok Stadium with such obvious banners.

Although Evergrande Club and Evergrande Fans Association gave their own explanations for the banner incident, AFC made a punishment decision after investigation. AFC punished Evergrande Club with "two empty matches postponed for two years" and imposed a heavy fine of $22,500. "The execution of two empty matches will be postponed for two years" means that if similar events happen again in Evergrande in the past two years, AFC will have zero tolerance and immediately impose heavy penalties on Evergrande Club for at least two empty matches. If it doesn't happen again within two years, then the incident will not be investigated and it will not be false.

Neither Evergrande Club nor Guangzhou fans can accept the penalty of two empty matches. Therefore, if fans want to avoid the punishment of empty matches, they must regulate their behavior when cheering for Evergrande in the next two years, otherwise Evergrande Club and Guangzhou fans will suffer the most.