What I don't get is... Are the tiny banners (A4 size) also banned? Or just the larger formats? They don't bother me usually, it's not like people hold them up all the time. If they did, I'd ask them to put it down... There was this one time a girl in front of me held one for a couple of minutes, she wouldn't put it down, so someone behind me punched it down and it was gone...

I don't think they can ban them in Europe... We'll smuggle them in anyway.

And besides, they loved what the fans did in Udine 2011... If
all the banners are banned (banned banners, sounds funny

), something like that won't happen again.
Making Richie apologize is lame, it's his opinion... He's entitled to one.
If Jon is so bothered by the banners, maybe he should open a Twitter account, so we could tweet him our requests. But oh wait, he thinks Twitter's stupid (or whatever he said, I don't really remember).