No one wants to watch a football match behind closed doors and nobody would benefit from seeing an entire domestic campaign called off for ‘security reasons’.

But when everything is out of proportion, we’d better set the game aside for a while.

That is at least how local authorities - including the FA - have been thinking over the past 18 months since the Port-Said disaster.

In the aftermath of Port-Said, a decision to hold domestic games behind closed doors was quite logical, if not the only option available.

However, the supposed plan to gradually bring football back to life - after such a massive blow in February 2012 - has taken a lazy, passive and boring measure exemplified by those shaky hands running things in Egypt.

With the common impatient attitude, lack of control and the rise of the uncompromising ultras, it was a matter of time when those football-crazy youngsters would take matters into their hands.

Now after they had defied the so-called crowd ban in the Champions League derby clash, the ultras are being hailed as ‘responsible, civilized, wonderful, organized…etc.’

But more importantly, they are being praised by whom?

It’s the Egyptian football governing body…whose enmity with the ultras in recent months has almost reached that level of animosity between Morsi supporters and opposition!

It is obviously an attempt from FA officials to hide their sheer embarrassment after that: “OFFICIAL…ZAMALEK-AHLI GAME BEHIND CLOSED DOORS” announcement was utterly trashed by the considerable attendance at Gouna Stadium.

Now one might ask: ‘Why are you so bothered when everything looked like a carnival with the fans flashing their umbrellas and showering the pitch with that Argentina-style tickertape?’

The point is, they are a group of euphoric youth who managed to take matters into their own hands and actually succeeded in defying any possible ‘governing body’ and are now regarded as ‘able to secure games on their own’.

How alerting that might sound?...a group of fed-up, upset, fearless and overly enthusiastic teenagers controlling a football match in an already-flaming country.

Ekrami incident and Abdul-Wahed save

One incident from the Egyptian Champions League derby proved that anything can happen – was that moment when Ahli keeper Sherif Ekrami went down after being hit by an object from the stands.

The tense moment went on swiftly only because everyone at the stadium, including the depleted players, the clever referee and most notably the satisfied fans at 1-1 wanted a trouble-free evening.

But let’s imagine that the injury time effort of Abou-Treika, who has a habit of scoring heart-breaking goals, was not blocked by Abdul-Wahed Al-Sayed.

Is there any chance such a killer goal would bring nothing to the stands than just a joyful celebration met by some disappointment from the white contingent, or will the scene turn chaotic?

On the other hand, what if Zamalek had snatched a late goal to win it, wouldn’t the sinister idea of ‘ruining the match’ pop-up into the minds of some understandably-angry supporters from the red corner, given that the ‘hosts would pay for any violation’ as stated by CAF?

This is not just a pre-judgment, rather than a precautionary sense of fearing the worse - a normal sentiment for anyone who takes a deep look into things in Egypt these days.

I’m not blaming the ultras here, not suggesting that they just have a tendency to blow things up and certainly not indicating that fans shouldn’t have been allowed in or even that the FA should have announced a public invitation to all…no.

So who is to blame and for what?

It is our feeble, oblivious, ever-isolated and often ignorant authorities - including the useless FA board - that failed to build a healthy relationship with the ultras after Port-Said, bringing us into such a hazardous situation.

No one thought about how to contain those youthful, wounded hearts after the calamity that rocked every Egyptian, let alone every football fan last year.

Now after domestic football was called off for security concerns, we’re in a situation where a group of teenagers are praised for controlling a match…as if this is not a security concern!