IT’S turning out to be quite the year for Worcester City FC.

Already this year we’ve enjoyed the best FA Cup run in a decade – including a blinding win against Coventry and one of the most nail-biting penalty shoot outs in living memory – and Sean Geddes’ spectacular rabona goal against Barrow in November making headlines around the world.

As a long-time fan of the City who’s followed the team through thick and thin – sometimes very, very thin – it’s a pretty exciting time.

And this weekend City made headlines again, but this time for a less auspicious reason.

The clip of Shabir Khan body slamming Stockport midfielder Charlie Russell quickly spread around social media and sport websites, with ‘The Wrath of Khan’ being my personal favourite headline.

Here it is if you haven’t seen it already:

Yes, it was pretty entertaining, but was it warranted? Definitely not.

Yes, it was a dirty foul and Charlie Russell should have been sent off, but Khan immediately getting up and retaliating in such a violent manner was far from the right response.

Fans of the top flight clubs tend to scoff at non-league football as tinpot, and this sort of behaviour doesn’t help.

While just a few short months ago football fans across the world were marvelling at the quality of play from Geddes and his teammates, the incident risks this season being remembered less for the spectacular FA Cup run to “the one where Khan body slammed someone”.

Do we really want City to get this sort of image?

If anything, the fact that you’re not generally going to get the same quality of play from Carl Heeley’s boys than you might watching Chelsea and Man U means Khan and co have more to prove, and performing a wrestling move on an opponent just detracts from this.

And of course there’s the well-worn argument about footballers providing role models to young children.

I’ve no doubt many of my fellow City fans won’t be happy to read this, but part of loving our team is recognising when they’ve gone wrong.

Remember, it’s just a game.