THE plan to talk to Swindon Town players internally about their celebrations following the weekend’s victory over Bristol City is a wise one.

It’s worth stressing that none of them did anything condemnable and there is no evidence that any member of the team acted with a deliberate intention to cause a problem.

What they did was behave like any tight-knit group of young men would under the circumstances.

The build up to a fixture such as this is always tense for the players involved, and the release of that tension at a win is immense.

Those who presume to criticise do so from the sidelines; almost without exception they have never played and shall never play sport at such a level.

As Town manager Mark Cooper rightly put it: “I think what you must remember is what the atmosphere was like.

“We’ve got a lot of young players and some boys that are Swindon through and through.”

There are clearly times, though, when such celebrations can be misunderstood, and can add to existing tensions off the field.

The overwhelming majority of fans, who are there for no other reason than love of their sport and their side, are not affected by these tensions.

But a tiny minority are on the lookout for supposed slights they can make into an excuse for causing trouble.

It is for this reason that a quiet word with players, in private, is entirely appropriate for the sake of the game.