Have you ever been to a football match?

You don;t think its disproportionate for someone to lose their job, season ticket and be publically labelled a racist by the entire country with the all the stigma that involves for having acted in a way that truth be told is not that unusual at football matches?

Posted By: Jim on December 11th 2018 at 15:17:10

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"I didn’t call him a black cunt, I called him a Manc cunt.." (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Dec 11, 13:17:11
- It is different (n/m) (Other Football) - asics_kit, Dec 11, 23:05:51
- Remember when we were accused of racist chanting and our defence was that we were (Other Football) - Adster, Dec 11, 14:47:42
  - "You fat bastard" has a pretty clear degree of humour to it (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 11, 14:50:30
    - Entirely. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 15:22:52
    - I don’t necessarily disagree but I think it shows how the landscape has changed. Rooney (Other Football) - Adster, Dec 11, 15:00:01
      - And clearly wasn’t fat. Just like fat frank wasn’t fat. (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Dec 11, 18:23:16
    - Absolutely (n/m) (Other Football) - Yellalee, Dec 11, 14:54:47
    - 👍🏻 (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 14:54:21
- I know Colin and have done for over 20 years (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 14:45:52
  - i thought that coverage was totally wrong (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 11, 15:03:02
  - How do you look in your KKK outfit? 😜 (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 14:57:02
    - Better than in my Evel Knievel suit! (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 14:59:28
      - You can buy one on ebay........what is interesting is...... (Other Football) - usacanary, Dec 11, 17:29:43
        
        I drove past the Olympia in London on Saturday, there was some sort of Cosplay thing going (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 19:12:30
      - Karn’s had worse (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 15:00:56
        
        ;-) (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 15:02:51
  - He screamed "CUNT" in the face of a young man playing football (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 14:50:34
    - Oh come on please....I guarantee that both The Barclay and The Snakepit will (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 15:39:57
      - Well, I'd say there's a bit of a difference (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 16:00:41
        
        You mean like this......... (Other Football) - usacanary, Dec 11, 18:16:00
        
        Is that the best you can do? (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 19:07:13
        
        Pwned....... (Other Football) - usacanary, Dec 11, 20:01:46
        
        Very unedifying. “Someone should shoot him in the face” (n/m) (Other Football) - Jim, Dec 11, 18:25:40
        
        It's a tongue in cheek reference to a regular scc comment. (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 19:23:23
        
        as I said..... a giant hypocrite....... (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, Dec 11, 18:32:45
        
        Absolutely there is...but where does one draw the line? Is it threatening and abusive? (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 16:13:14
    - Have you ever been to a football match? (Other Football) - Jim, Dec 11, 15:17:10
      - Incredibly facetious question, so I'll pass Jim, thanks. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 15:22:11
    - I don't disagree with that at all (it's hard to, to be fair, given the evidence) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 14:58:15
      - You can have passion at football without calling a player every name (n/m) (Other Football) - earlydoors, Dec 11, 15:30:47
      - they've used a different photo in theprint edition (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 11, 15:05:18
        
        The bloke in the blue hat is clearly giving him a wanker sign (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 15:19:57
        
        it'd be interesting to see the other photos taken around the same time i reckon (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 11, 15:46:31
        
        Yes (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 15:49:46
        
        What a difference a second makes - you'd never know that from the online report (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 15:08:53
      - I dunno, I have passionately supported my team using my ST (Other Football) - Yellalee, Dec 11, 15:03:39
        
        millwall game, norwich fan two rows in front every other word was fucking this cunt that (Other Football) - Tombs, Dec 11, 15:58:41
        
        I called loads of people it when I played though! (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 16:17:04
        
        you should try calling them cunts, it's much more effective than "it" (n/m) (Other Football) - Worzel Scrimmage, Dec 11, 18:22:30
        
        ....but miss, Worzels said the game wasn't called "it", he called it that other name..... (n/m) (Other Football) - Old Man, Dec 11, 18:34:50
        
        though obviously not in a school setting (Other Football) - Worzel Scrimmage, Dec 11, 19:09:59
        
        So do I, it's surprised me to be honest, but I don't sit next to him at the match (n/m) (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 15:13:40
    - I find myself agreeing with norway (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 14:56:06
  - Fair enough. (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 11, 14:49:18
    - He'd fouled Luiz immediately before that, so was more a reaction to that (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 14:55:36
      - Ah, didn't know that. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Dec 11, 15:08:16
        
        This is why there's needle between the clubs (Other Football) - Karnivore, Dec 11, 15:16:22
- To be really fair...there's a big difference. This is a tough one for football. (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 13:39:31
  - I would be delighted if every supporter who shouted the C word was banned (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 14:39:14
- listen up folks, my view on this is as follows (Other Football) - Charles21, Dec 11, 13:37:15
  - An adult who can’t control himself sufficiently to prevent himself behaving like that? (Other Football) - Old Git, Dec 11, 14:47:40
    - It was incredibly unedifying. Intimidating and nasty. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Dec 11, 14:51:21
  - Bloke sitting near me on Saturday was very excited about the black linesman ffs (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Dec 11, 14:05:50
    - Err was their a black linesman on Saturday (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, Dec 11, 14:11:52
      - Exactly (n/m) (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Dec 11, 14:18:35
  - Sound (n/m) (Other Football) - yellowman, Dec 11, 13:42:04
- Its quite an important distinction though isn;t it (Other Football) - Jim, Dec 11, 13:31:41
  - You accept to a degree? (Other Football) - earlydoors, Dec 11, 13:45:47
    - I just meant i don't think its realistic to ban swearing at football (n/m) (Other Football) - Jim, Dec 11, 13:49:00
      - who is genuinely calling for that? (n/m) (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Dec 11, 13:52:20
      - Of course it's not... (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 13:51:57
    - lets, but it isn't close to happening (Other Football) - Charles21, Dec 11, 13:46:44
      - Do we shrug and do nothing then (n/m) (Other Football) - earlydoors, Dec 11, 13:47:41
        
        You really think we can ban the C word at football matches? How exactly? (n/m) (Other Football) - BINMEN8R, Dec 11, 13:53:19
        
        I didn't say that (Other Football) - Charles21, Dec 11, 13:53:13
  - ^^ you da man (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Dec 11, 13:37:53
- ^ Fat bastard, gentrifying footy (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Dec 11, 13:23:38
  - Chaz is innocent (n/m) (Other Football) - Dandy Highburyman, Dec 11, 13:26:35
    - you spelt 'obese' wrong (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Dec 11, 13:40:46
      - I'm getting there tbh (n/m) (Other Football) - Charles21, Dec 11, 13:45:58

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