I used to go a lot Si but, to be brutally honest, I stopped because of the very thing we're discussing.
I've been a couple of times, in recent years, with a few mates. The strange thing is: out of the four mates I go with, three could be described as 'disenfranchised'... but they never stopped going, even when I did.
Windsor Park has been a scary, sh*t-hole, inhabited by Neanderthals, down the years but I certainly noticed a big change when I went back. A change in atmosphere; a change in mind-set and the truth is, an awful lot of folk I know, from 'different' back-grounds go to N.I. games... certainly more than people might imagine. Sadly tho' they tend not to tell their 'peers' for fear of scorn or reprisal.
That said; I can fully appreciate why a lot of folk wouldn't want to... the truth is; I wouldn't go myself if I felt unwelcome or more accurately - unsafe.
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