Stuart W
A word to the wise is enough
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I'm sorry but again I have to raise the issue of abusive chanting at players and the hypocrisy surrounding it.
There was a lot quite rightly made in early January of the Oldham defender being racially abused by a Liverpool "fan" on the Kop, which reduced the defender to tears, and the abuser was subsequently banned for a significant time.
I am not arguing with any of this, but watching yesterday's game at Stevenage, there was regular chanting of:-
"He looks like a chimp, he looks like a chimp, Gareth Bale, he looks like a chimp".
Nothing has been mentioned about this, either on ITV or in today's press, as far as I can see.
Am I being thick, or would this have resulted in a different reaction, if the targeted player had been say Jermaine Defoe or Neil Lennon?
There was a lot quite rightly made in early January of the Oldham defender being racially abused by a Liverpool "fan" on the Kop, which reduced the defender to tears, and the abuser was subsequently banned for a significant time.
I am not arguing with any of this, but watching yesterday's game at Stevenage, there was regular chanting of:-
"He looks like a chimp, he looks like a chimp, Gareth Bale, he looks like a chimp".
Nothing has been mentioned about this, either on ITV or in today's press, as far as I can see.
Am I being thick, or would this have resulted in a different reaction, if the targeted player had been say Jermaine Defoe or Neil Lennon?