Two-thirds of parents said increased use of pyrotechnics was putting them off bringing their children, a feeling Ruth Maddocks can relate to.
Her eight-year-old son James was in the Everton section at Liverpool last season, but missed the action after being struck by a smoke bomb.
"It was before the game and the players had all just come out on to the pitch," she told BBC Sport.
"Everyone was standing up so my son was standing on the chair. My husband just heard James saying 'ouch!' and on the back of his neck he could see a really big red mark but ash still burning away at his skin.
"My husband flicked it off and then took James to be treated by St John Ambulance, who put some gel on it and a plaster. He came back to the seat but it was such a shake-up for him he couldn't stay."
