Wednesday 20 January 2016 15:06, UK
The problem of flares being thrown at matches resurfaced at Tuesday night's Scottish Cup tie between Forfar and Linlithgow Rose.
Match officials eventually had to abandon the fourth-round clash at Station Park due to floodlight failure, but only after several incidents involving supporters in the away section of the ground.
The kick-off was delayed after a flare was thrown onto the pitch and Police Scotland have confirmed two men aged 19 and 22 were charged and that a report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.
The lights then failed after the contest finally began and seven minutes into the match the players were taken off, with referee Stephen Finnie forced to abandon soon afterwards.
A number of smoke bombs were also thrown on to the pitch in an area in front of where the Linlithgow fans were gathered and a number of supporters were led away by police and stewards.
The incident came on the same day an SPFL working group was set up to consider a number of ways of curbing anti-social behaviour at football matches.
These included the possibility of using Scottish Government funding to identify culprits through CCTV, as well as imposing penalties on clubs, such as points deductions.
But speaking after the abandoned contest, Forfar chairman Alastair Donald admitted he is not convinced clubs, especially smaller ones like his with limited resources, can ever guarantee preventing fans bringing banned objects into grounds.
"I am not entirely certain Scottish football can do anything to eradicate it," Donald told Sky Sports News HQ.
"These missiles that are coming in are the size of a cigarette lighter, they're tiny. I am not entirely certain how you control that. I am open to suggestions from people. How would you control it?
"If you have got 500 or 600 people in a contained environment hell-bent on setting a flare off, you would need to have a steward for every three or four spectators to stop that from happening."
Linlithgow Rose also released a statement in relation to the incidents in which they described themselves as "aghast at what we all saw".
"Tonight at Forfar a group of people purporting to be Linlithgow Rose supporters disgraced the name of our football club, our community and our town," it read.
"These people have no place at football with Linlithgow Rose or anyone else. We apologise to our hosts at Forfar - we are aghast at what we all saw."
The tie has been rearranged for Tuesday, January 26, kick-off 7.45pm.
