A young football player scolded an opponent when two Blekinge teams met in early May. The punishment was suspended for seven months from all football and Sven-Olle Persson, chairman of the disciplinary committee, said at the time that it is the most severe punishment he has been involved in condemning.
And then no more than two weeks passed, then came the next incident – a bloody fight between two people in the middle of the game.
– We take this very seriously, says Sven-Olle Persson, when SVT Nyheter Blekinge meets him on Thursday.
Zero tolerance project
After several serious expulsions, the Blekinge Football Association already in 2018 created something called Zero Tolerance 2.0 – a project that resulted in the number of expulsions being more than halved for the following season.
But this work will now evolve, after the incidents of recent weeks.
"It may be naïve to think that you will reach zero, but you have to constantly work with these issues. It can be mailings to all associations, association visits and information. We are also discussing creating a so-called fair play staircase for next season.