Emmanuel Adebayor might have thought that he had heard it all in terms of abuse from the terraces. It does not get much worse than hearing your mother and father defamed in the most vitriolic fashion. Or maybe it does?The Arsenal supporters were always likely to try to get under the skin of their former striker, whose presence in the lily white of Tottenham Hotspur represented the most serious of affronts, yet they managed to excel themselves when they wished that he had died in a gun massacre."It should have been you, it should have been you," they sang, at regular intervals in the first-half. "Shot in Angola. It should have been you."Adebayor will forever be haunted by the terrorist attack on the Togo team bus in January of last year, in which three people were killed. He knows that if he had been sitting two rows further forward, it could have been him. It was charming, then, of the travelling fans to remind him of the trauma and it offered further proof that simply nothing is off-limits in the modern game.
this was taken from the guardian. should arsenal fans be banned from games for this? i think so.
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I used to go west ham a lot with my mates and some ex players got awful abuse.
I recall shortly after lampard mum had died, sections of the crowd were chanting "Wheres your mama gone, wheres your mama gone"
Defoe got,"You should've died with your brother, died with your brother"
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A vile minority who make the majority look a lot worse than they are
So well played to everyone that had got the banter going. YES, banter, if you find this offensive you're watching the wrong sport.
Not my words, quoted from the Blades post match thread about the chanting at Ched Evans. One mans banter is another mans offensive remark.
I'm with Rothko on this.
At some stage, and it varies from individual to individual, you realise its all a bit sad, and what you used to find funny isn't actually that funny. Jokes about people who have dies, chants about people charged with rape etc
Pointless and slightly irritating.
"She said no Evans, She said no" and the odd chant of Rapist. From ours about his rape case.
Probably would jim as non parle le francais other than what I remember from my Tricolore ;-)
But yeah the above is disgusting and not even funny
As for offensive chanting, we've got a nasty one about a palace fan before an FA Cup Semi-Final, which although isn't on that level needs to be taken in to account before we start judging other fans.
spot on. And I don't buy the under/over 24 argument either, unless we're talking about IQ rather than age
I wonder why it is that hooliganism has dropped so much over the last 20 years or so, but this sort of stuff, verbal hooliganism if you like, is on the up.
The Evans chants on Saturday didn't particularly bother me initially, I think any player who finds himself in the papers for the wrong reasons is inevitably gonna get some stick. Just thought it was a bit sad that a significant number of our supporters spent most of the first half of a top of the table clash goading an opposition player rather than getting behind Charlton.
The Arsenal/Adebuyor stuff's on a different level, but it's not particularly an "Arsenal" thing, more a case of circumstances dictating that it just happens to be Arsenal fans in the wrong on this occasion. Spurs fans would have been chanting exactly the same stuff if it was the other way round, just as Man City and Leeds fans chant anti-Munich stuff at Man U, Millwall wave Galatassaray flags at Leeds supporters, I'm sure there's plenty more to add to that list as well. More a refection of certain elements of society today, than of one particular club's supporters.
It wasnt deemed to be racist... just offensive. Why did he choose to go there? Strange.
sorry its a daily mail link but there are plent of links to the story.
You're right, MrLargo, that it's not one club's supporters that is especially to blame - apparently the Spurs fans were singing the same stuff last season when Adebayor played for Real Madrid against them.
But if this stuff is starting to occur at pretty well every major ground, then we are on a slippery slope back to the 80s. A mate of mine gave up his S/T at the Valley a few years ago (we were still Prem) because he was fed up with some of this 'banter', and not prepared to subject his son to any more of it. The clubs need to stamp it out, start with warnings and then if need be ejections & bans.