To taunt someone about the death of his friend's and team mate's is outrageous. To even compare it to calling Wenger a *****phile is ridiculous. Get some perspective you imbeciles.
He had no reason to criticise the chants before Adebayor didn't play for his club and he would have gained nothing by criticising his own fans
I'd love to take the high moral ground and state winding up visitors to the Brit is wrong.... But I'd be a bigger hypocrite than Arry My personal favourite was telling SWP John Terry was his dad.
you are a bloody idiot !! I wanted to say something far worse but it would've been blocked out. Clearly you don't have kids if you think being called a ***** is alright, you muppet.
Yes The supposed moral outrage is ridiculous We all say things that cross the line whether at football matches or in daily life and managers/journalists are in no position to take the high ground
Gents - can we try and discuss this topic without the personal insults flying around? this thread is not an excuse for the Gooner haters to start mud slinging Thanks
I think it's fair enough to ask the question. Harry is very selective in what he chooses to criticise. It's just the nasty personal insults that we could do without, other than that, why be afraid to discuss it?
Seems par for the course on a board that one had hoped would escape the lesser style prevalent on the old 606. Perhaps it's just the nature of the beast and the tribal character of some supporters associated with the game. One would have thought that having moderators on this board would help pave the way for an environment more conducive to reasonable and civilised discussion.
Well, we don't want to create another BBC 606 with over handed moderation. We're all grown up's on here (well most of us) so we don't want to molly coddle people. Swearing is fine, sometimes it's necessary to get your point across. But the endless little spats and tit for tat nonsense is just tiresome and doesn't add anything to the debate.
it saddens me to see any human being subjected to racist , or any other type of vile personal abuse. Unfortunately it is so prevalent now that its regarded as the norm. Witness the comments of the united fan on here. Enmities between football teams now is at a ridiculous level , players are seen no longer as people but just things that can be despised and spat at. As an example i was watching the game yesterday and one of our players was taking a corner. The fans behind him were hurling abuse at him , and this is considered normal and perfectly fine behavior for an afternoon of sporting diversion. Another example is when we played spurs a good while back and Pires goes to retrieve the ball from the crowd . Instead of handing the ball to him the boy throws the ball AT him , to raucous applause from the locals. Did the boys father bring him up to do such things outside of the ground too ? It may sound like its not very serious but its the zero tolerance syndrome. Its a small step , if not admonished , from throwing things at people to verbally and racially abusing them . Where has all the sportsmanship and common decency gone from the game and indeed society. I fear we have degenerated so far we can never come back to a culture of , if not respect then at least decency.
Well Mr Ballright I was at a match many moons ago, pre the era of the space shuttle which I may add is now history too when Graham Rix was being heckled by one of our own supporters each and everytime he came by or was taking a throw-in. It may have been a Div 1 home match with Norwich. The football supporter can be a most emotional and disruptive creature. One can only hope this DNA is not passed on
The reason i started this thread is because what i see as Redknapp's hypocrisy.He is disgusted about Adebayor being taunted with disgusting chants now he is a Tottenham player but chose to ignore racist chants towards Adebayor by Tottenham fans before he was a Tottenham player
Redknapp has consistently condemned abuse of players by fans. You can criticise him for a lot of things, but this isn't one of them. If you're looking for hypocrisy by a manager in this fixture, then I'd suggest that Wenger's "how didn't he see it?" comment is far more hypocritical.
It might be my view of the sport since I am not as it were a ' cradle football supporter ' but rather came into it while I was at university. While I appreciate that rivalries are part of the culture of local derbies, I just felt that this tit for tat approach did little to promote the spirit of sport, in fact quite the opposite and the way to go ought to be in the manner by which the two teams had issued a joint statement today. In fact Spurs have gone one stage further in vowing to ban fans guilty of offensive chanting. That's all really.
