Alan Reynolds admitted his side didn't defuse the situation as tensions boiled over before this evening's north Dublin derby with Shelbourne at Tolka Park.
Players and backroom team members from both clubs engaged in a bit of pushing and shoving before the game kicked off.
The scenes had slight echoes of another infamous shemozzle that happened, as the crow flies, about 700 metres across the northside. That was the 2006 All-Ireland football semi-final, when Dublin took umbrage with Mayo warming up at their "end" in front of Hill 16.
This evening, it was Shelbourne who were in the way of the Bohemians players as they went to applaud their supporters before the game.
After everyone calmed down, what followed was 90 minutes of a stalemate.
Asked afterwards about the incident, Bohs manager Reynolds admitted that his side hadn't approached the situation in the best manner.
"We take some of the blame, " he told RTÉ Sport. "We went down too far to clap the fans.
"I was standing on the halfway line going, 'where are we going here?'
"We went down too far and in fairness to them, if it was us, we'd do the same and be annoyed. Then it just kicked on from there.
"So, we take our part. I'm not sure of the reaction from them. I don't know their part, but we could have helped if we'd not gone down that far."
Pushed on the fact that some of the backroom teams, from both sides, got involved, Reynolds added: "You've got to protect your players, but look, if you don't go down as far, there's no problem."
The result maintains Bohs' unbeaten start to the season on a night when three of the five games ended without a goal scored.
They lead St Patrick's Athletic, who were held by Derry City, by three points with defending champions Shamrock Rovers, who drew with Drogheda United, a further two points back.
"We were disappointed with the first game against Pats," Reynolds explained when asked about a start to the campaign which has them top of the table.
"We felt we didn't turn up at all, so that's one that's irked us a little bit.
"It's been good, but we go on to Friday now against Dundalk and there's a wee international break then.
"We want to finish this series, these three games, with a win."
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