Enable Sweden works with events, public gatherings and risk management, and originated in the football movement.
Anders Almgren was at Gamla Ullevi during Monday's abandoned match. He notes that emotions have since surged on social media - either against the decision to abandon the match or against the supporters' behavior.
Supporters began the match with a ten-minute silence in a joint protest against the police's new strategy of increased presence in the dugouts. The match was later interrupted when some in the audience, among other things, burned flags.
"It's clear that it's striking that it's being combined. It's hard to take the initial protest seriously," says Almgren.
Need for a system
At the same time, Anders Almgren is critical of the match being canceled and how it was handled.
"If a decision is made to permanently stop a match, it should be consistent with predictable practice - how it usually is - and also with a set of rules."
He mentions that matches in Halmstad and Stockholm have recently been able to resume after similar incidents.
"This means that depending on where things happen or who decides in these contexts, very different decisions are made."
"It is clear that we need a system that increases predictability and consistency in decisions."
The message also took a long time to come - about 80 minutes.
"It's like sitting on a train platform when the train isn't coming and you don't get any information. It's fucking annoying."
Keep emotions out
Almgren would like to see a return to a clearer form of cooperation between the police and the football side, similar to the national strategy that existed in 2014–2017.
"Then you have to actively ensure that the emotions disappear from these decisions. It is very hard to believe that yesterday the parties sat down and read through the football regulations and the text of the law on when to stop matches and thought, 'Yes, but now there is reason to stop the match.'"
IFK Gothenburg believes the decision is disproportionate, and during the 80-minute match meeting, they argued that the derby should have been completed during the evening.
The derby was suspended after 39 minutes with the score 2–1 to Gothenburg and will resume on Tuesday afternoon in front of empty stands.
