This is nothing new and most clubs will have this element amongst their fans. I remember standing in the Gallowgate against Man United in our first year in the Prem and the majority were singing "who's that lying on the runway". Football fans have tried to wind up the opposition for as long as I can remember and not many of the wind-up songs chants are very savoury!
Join my club it's a vigilante one so I'm not sure if we are any better , however it's called the kill the arseholes appreciation society.
It'll never stop, How low people will stoop, will vary. If it was still standing, the chanting and level of abuse is worse, safety in numbers and all that.. Seating the minority with the abusive chants are easily spotted.
There used to be bobby Robson chants when he was your manager, but never after it was known he had cancer.
Remember when Roeder was our manager and we played at Upton Park? Some West Ham "fans" were shouting "you should be dead by now" and "tumour boy" at him after he had a brain tumour removed. It always seems to be the London clubs with the most sick chants, Hammers fans are a ****ing horrible bunch.
I can concur totally with this. In fact, I'd say Bobby Robson is as loved on Wearside as ever he is on Tyneside and the treatment he received form us as fans (he came to many games while ill at Niall Quinn's guest dont forget) was nothing but exemplary. He got some stick as the manager of our local rivals of course but thats to be expected but not about his illness at any time. I have often commented that when he died, not one single txt did the rounds with jokes, which to be honest, is remarkable in this modern age. It was after all, Niall the familt turned to to be the custodian of his charity when he died. I dont condone those chants but maybe the fact that your fans threw a petrol bomb into the W Ham fans in the 80's and killed one of them, has some bearing about why W Ham fans detest Newcastle above all others. Chanting at a sick person is below human but then what is chucking petrol bombs lower than? W Ham fans said the same after having a petrol bomb chucked at them mate. People in glass houses and all that? I have no doubts that both sets of fans from Sunderland and Newcastle, would have their moronic minority that would have chanted had either club suffered in a Munich style disaster and I'm not naive enough to think it wouldnt. What I would hope though, is that if they had, the majority would have stood up and dealt with it internally. Thats the problem Leeds fans have. They dont deal with it at all.
