‘If you don’t want someone coming into your workplace and throwing solid objects at you, don’t do it to others. “It really isn’t hard,” says our Aberdeen fan view writer.

nacceptable. Completely intolerable.

A football fan’s job is to do everything they can to help their team win while also upsetting their opponents. Everyone agrees that this is not a passive undertaking – nor would anyone want it to be.

Too often, however, people appear to forget that a football pitch is not some magical haven beyond the bounds of consequence, where the blur of the crowd obscures individual responsibility.

The laws of basic social cohesion – and of the land – continue to apply at the turnstile.

Nobody expects rivals who have just defeated fan favourites to be showered with three cheers.

However, using the Doric version and making missiles out of stadium furniture is abhorrent, futile, and hooligan cowardice, according to the politer descriptions.

It makes no difference if the injured party was not the intended target – or if there is none.

The act of preparing and delivering a projectile onto the pitch is wrong under any circumstances; if you don’t want someone coming to your workplace and throwing solid objects at you unexpectedly, don’t do it to others. It really isn’t difficult.

It’s tragic that Jack MacKenzie’s Aberdeen career may have ended with him being smashed in the face by a large slab of plastic.

Aberdeen’s Jack MacKenzie is hit by a chair from the crowd at Tannadice. Image: SNS.

May he be treated better by his new club’s supporters, and may his physical wounds heal quickly, even if the internal ones are understandably festering.

The club’s and fans’ reputations will take time to recover, which is understandable. For what exactly is Aberdeen now free of? Viewing these scenes: the senses, and nothing else.

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