Over the weekend there were reports Victoy fans would be kicked out of the Etihad Stadium if they flew the Eureka flag – a flag that represents the Eureka Stockade, a battle on the Ballarat goldfields between gold diggers and authorities in 1854.

Some argue it's a flag representing human rights and not a political symbol.

FFA soon backtracked and the edict was swiftly killed with the FFA claiming the ban was "unintended", but it's left fans in Melbourne feeling that the national governing body lacks the common touch.

Adam Tennenini is the leader of Victory's Blue and White Brigade, a band of singing, chanting and colourful fans. These fans have provided some of the most electric atmospheres at A-League games over the last three years and he's disappointed with how the issue has been handled.

"As you can imagine and by reading the fan forums, supporters are still angered by what has come to light over the last few days. There are those who will see this as yet another attack on our fan base, and rightly so," he told au.fourfourtwo.com.

"There have been flash points that we have never distanced ourselves from and concede needed to be fixed. We are upset however with [FFA CEO] Ben Buckley's condescending response in the FFA press release which links this behaviour with the Eureka flag.

"They are completely separate issues and to link to the two shows just how inept and out of touch the FFA are with supporters."

On Monday morning, Buckley admitted the Eureka flag ban was a mistake.

“It had been caught up in a wider review undertaken prior to the start of the Hyundai A-League to ensure that national or political flags are not brought into games inappropriately," he said.

“In this instance, I believe it’s a case of the interpretation of ‘political’ going too far and the ban has been an unintended consequence of our spectator code of behaviour.”

But he inflamed fans when he added: “I wouldn’t want supporters using the Eureka flag to take this as a sign that any disruptive or inappropriate behaviour is condoned.

“It’s not. We will continue to have a zero tolerance attitude towards such behaviour and, if they don’t comply with our spectator code, then their flag might be seeing more of matches than they do.”

The issue has also given sections of the Melbourne media ammunition to fire at football with the issue's negative connotations.

The Age newspaper ran the story on its front page last Monday (see photos). Club officials expressed their surprise to au.fourfourtwo.com that the story was deemed to be front page material.

"Its clear that FFA are talking garbage," added Tennenini. "Its also clear that as soon as they realised that this could turn into a publicity nightmare, a quick cover up of the initial directive followed.

"Fortunately, we are not dummies."