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Nice blog, the repeated use of the word banter made me shudder a little.eggsoakley said:My mates blog I help sometimes with has a few points about the songs, and fans today.
http://blog.footballrascal.com/football-in-crisis-are-fans-losing-the-stands/
Thelonious Filth said:I was completely sober on Sunday, I didn't get involved in the paedo chants (although I wore a badge which said as much).
If you take most chants at a local derby in isolation, they're all offensive on some level. But I think it'd detract from the atmosphere if hateful songs weren't sung. My moral compass tends to change when I'm in the stadium and you can see their fans, their players, their kit inside OUR stadium. The Wenger chants are sung by Man U and Chelsea fans, doesn't necessarily make the chants right but if they're going to ban one set of fans and not ban others then that's bullshit.
I absolutely detest a***nal, when I'm at the NLD I have to let those feelings out. Now I'm not violent so I won't be smashing their fans up but if I want to call RVP a molester then I will. The Wenger chants are a bit of a grey area for me really, it's clearly not true, it's unpleasant but I can't see those chants going away.
I think Lee Carsley has a disabled child, he got ripped for that in a derby IIRC. That's crossing the line for me. Munich/Heysel/Hillsborough cross the line. I'm really conflicted about the Adebayor chant, it's out of order but I've heard our own fans sing similar before he joined us.
This long ramble has left me somewhat confused! ha ha!
probably because we didn't play as well as we should, the game was pretty forgettable. Not much of note really happened during the game for me, but obviously I'm over the moon that we beat them but I felt a little flat leaving the stadium as we should really have torn them a new one instead of scraping a win.empefour said:The sad thing about the whole situation, is that the media and our own fans have had to talk about offensive chanting instead of a great win against our local rivals.