As the football season has just commenced, it may not, we think, be inappropriate to publish the following cutting from a Sporting Paper which ahs been handed to us by an evident earnest lover of fair sport.

To spectators of every description we say:-

1. Read well your rules before offering criticism. Having learned them, applaud good play without favour.

2. Always respect the referee’s ruling, and don’t make idiots of yourselves by shouting yourselves hoarse after his whistle has sounded.

3. If your team gets beaten don’t use swear words to them, because it’s rude, but help them on to victory another day by encouragement.

4. Do not yell unkind things at a player because he made a mistake, or you will only make a bigger one yourself, and possibly upset him.

5. If it rains, and you have an umbrella, don’t let it drip down the man’s neck in front of you, but rather get wet yourself.

6. Support your club both away and at home, and let your rivals see your loyalty; and above all, pass through the turnstile, and don’t jump the fence.

If our readers and their friends will only follow out our instructions, what a heavenly game we shall have and what an increase there will be to be sure in the number of spectators patronising the coming matches.