What I do know is the threat came via twitter and was "i'm gona kil u u stupid ted [HASHTAG]#FTG[/HASHTAG]", which suggests a gashead, it may have been reported to the police but it was never investigated.
Many years ago during a working day I happened upon a big house somewhere like Longwell Green, the house was surrounded by a huge wall and huge electric gates and had 2 huge Rottweiler's patrolling the grounds, the gates opened and out walked Ian Holloway. We got chatting and he told me that the wall, gates and Rottie's were all designed to be a deterrent from local BCFC fans who had made his family's life a misery, especially his daughters who happened to be deaf and subjected to terrible abuse, but he was determined not to give into them.
Whoever makes these sorts of online threats or racist comments or targets footballers/managers/their families at their homes are cowardly scum, nobody should have to put up with it.
It is nothing new I am reading the 4 volume history of BCFC from the beginning to the mid 2000's, back in the late 1800's a match between Warmley Rovers and Millwall ended with severe crowd violence, there are reports of abuse throughout the very first volume up to the first world war and strangely the racist abuse suffered by Walter Tull playing for Tottenham at Ashton Gate in 1909 is sadly overlooked, not a mention. And here we are over 100 years later and same problems persist and it's still a hot topic.
I wouldn't mind betting that LJ suffered similar abuse after leaving Oldham to better himself at Barnsley and after leaving Barnsley to better himself with us and is almost certainly suffering similar abuse at Sunderland right now. It's not right and it never will be but every club has it's idiots and always will do, every single manager and player in world football will have their haters even amongst their own fanbase, sadly that's the world we live in.
I don't have feelings in my water, I leave that to you, you have perfected the art.
