All I know is that a banana was not thrown, a banana skin was. If the thrower was a racist, then he was even more ******ed than your average racist. Did he pack his banana thinking "if any black players for Arsenal perform well against us, I'll show them with this banana" then get hungry and accidentally eat it?
You seem to be deliberately missing, or perhaps evading, the reality of what occurred ... for all I know the twat could have had some toffee and whipped cream in his pockets and was planning to knock up a banoffee pie at half time ... but the facts are that he threw a banana skin at a black footballer ... he knew what he was doing ... and it had an element of racially based incitement to it ...
I don't claim to know his intentions, and I don't give him the credit of assuming he knew what he was doing.
Absolutely ... one of the saddest days I have had supporting my club ... but even that he took with immense dignity and has never said a bad word about the club and it's owners - indeed his tribute to Khun Vichai epitomised everything about the man ... what a gent Now shut the **** up and prepare yourself for Big Sam's new 5 year contract ....
Then we will agree to disagree .... but I suspect that every other Spurs fan around him knew what his intent was ... and hopefully most of them called him a **** for it
You two need to sort your family issues out in private instead of airing your dirty laundry. Dad and Lad day out perhaps?
Saw that stat earlier, but thought it would be cruel to mention it seeing as Arsenal's goals tipped the balance, to help them become the team with the leakiest backdoor ever.
It was a racist gesture and the prick that did it yesterday deserves everything that he gets. It had nothing to do with it being Arsenal fans and everything to do with it being something that ****s have done for years. Most away fans for clubs like Spurs and Arsenal have been to a ton of matches. It's highly unlikely that they'd be unaware of the history of that kind of action.
I'm not convinced it's a clear cut as that. Obviously that gesture is loaded with racist overtones, but I'm not sure that when these things happen, (especially the adebayor incident, given that there were a number of random objects thrown) that people are necessarily thinking, 'right here's my opportunity to make a racist statement'. I think they just throw whatever is to hand in the heat of the moment. It Doesn't excuse the behaviour, but as I say I don't think it's always obvious that it's meant as a deliberate racist gesture.
It is an effect of being ever present (only 6 teams have) but never being one of the top 4 clubs until now. We are a similar status to Everton and it is with them that we vie for this position. We were in this position at the beginning of this season and indeed the prior one. At that point we'd conceded 20 goals more than Everton (and we've conceded less than them this season). So as we go past them it is going to ebb and flow due to the odd bad result. On current trends Everton will have conceded plenty more goals than us by next season.
