... in your opinion? "Tottenham midfielder Eric Dier ran into the stand to confront a fan who "insulted" him after Spurs were knocked out of the FA Cup. Dier climbed over seats behind the dugout and was involved in a fracas before security intervened." https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51747014 Fat bastard And is Mourinho taking a swipe at a section of supporters who may well take offence at his comments ... The incident happened in the area behind the dugouts, which is a corporate section, and Mourinho criticised it for not housing "real Tottenham fans" "But I think a lot of corporate, a lot of invitation, a lot of people with special status (are in there) and probably it is the place of the stadium where I sometimes have doubts about if they are the real Tottenham fans, because these (real fans) are the ones who support the boys until the last."
It's a tough one. Similar but different to Cantona and that brain donor of a fan. Problem is, fans think they can say whatever they like. Footballers are still people, but if it happened in the street between two blokes the one doing the physical attacking would be in the wrong. I can understand Dier the person losing his rag and wanting to land one on the numpty. And the numpty will be another brain donor. It's a tough one. He'll likely cop a fine and/or ban for his troubles.
It all depends on what was said and if the response could be considered reasonable and not just thuggery by someone with an over inflated ego/sense of entitlement.
I'd normally say he should just leave it but I believe his brother was there and was getting pissed off at the comments about him so it looks like he partly went there to get his brother out of the situation which is fair enough. We'd need to know more details to comment fully like but from what I've seen I don't think it should be a big thing, it's not like he went in windmilling
Don't think anything happened to him in the end did it? Seems crazy like, just whip yer cock out on national TV, in a ground with loads of kids about, and get away with it but there we go
On his performance last night Spurs wont notice is he is banned, he was shocking and not half the player he was in the last England Euros.
Don't really have a problem with what he did. Football fans give out ridiculous over the top abuse and they think it's fine because of the wages a player gets paid. Dier will be well aware that he gets criticism from Spurs fans every week and he takes it on the chin. But when one of them is taking out their issue on your family then that is a different story. Looks to me like Dier has "lost it" when a fan has crossed the line with what's acceptable and is protecting his family. No issue with that at all. I wonder how well the average football fan would react if someone came into their place of work and told them they were **** week after week and then followed it up by abusing family members.
He was sticking up for his brother, nowt any normal bloke wouldn’t do. Whatever punishment he receives should be minimal. Supporters need to accept responsibility as well.
Should have acted more professionally imo and shown some restraint. Bad example for any youngsters watching. Is this now gonna be the norm when players get abused by crowd if that was the case??? But I would like to know the full facts if what occurred and not just the speculation
I agree with @Jack Ford on this. I've seen people saying you shouldn't accept abuse at work but I'm sure there's a big difference between funeral director and football player. I've also seen people automatically assume Dier's brother is the innocent party, totally ignoring the fact he may have started the argument. And that's all it appears to have been, and argument in an area with police and stewards. Dier has to be banned/fined, no other option imo.
Well, it took him that long to climb over those seats it was over before it began. He will cop a fine and a ban though. You just cant do that as a professional footballer.
