http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-23510657Liverpool Football Club staff have been issued with a guide to unacceptable language so they can help eradicate verbal abuse from fans.
The handbook highlights "offensive" phrases including "don't be a woman", "play like a girl" and "that's gay".
The club said they wanted to stamp out slurs against race, religion, sexual orientation, gender and disability.
Player Luis Suarez was found to have racially abused Manchester United's Patrice Evra during a game last year.
The club were criticised in February by black community groups for a perceived lack of action.
Liverpool's players receive their own guidance as part of a separate Premier League programme.
'Positive step'
Social inclusion officer Rishi Jain said the club had been "actively engaged in an education and awareness programme".
"This programme includes interactive workshops and a handbook which is designed to provide information on the latest equality legislation including what terminology is deemed acceptable and unacceptable."
He added it would help staff "take the necessary steps to ensure Anfield is free from all forms of discrimination".
Lord Herman Ouseley, chair of anti-discrimination group Kick It Out, said the guide was a positive step.
He said Liverpool FC had taken "great strides" to tackle discrimination.
"Match day stewards must be trained on dealing with incidents of discrimination and unacceptable behaviour in order to eradicate it from our stadiums."
Jesus wept.
wonder what a Charlton guide might include?
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All they need now is a "Style Guide" and they'll be sorted.
Yet another strike at the way we live by the PC brigade.
lol
Whilst I would contest the likely effectiveness of Liverpool's campaign I can't criticise the sentiment.
I was once at the Valley subjected to the joy of someone and his approx. 10 year old son both screaming at the ref that he was a 'f***ing paedo'. I'd certainly prefer to attend matches without that sort of language and I know people who don't attend matches because of that sort of language.
Travellers and Gypsies are accepted as distinct ethnic groups in law and also by genetic scientists. Catch up mate, it is 2013.
what if Dale Stephens curls a shot into the top corner from 30 yards and someone shouts "fantastic bender Dale"?
does that person get marched out of the ground and their season ticket confiscated?
what was a bender in a bun?
BTW I have a mate who uses a wheelchair (juvenile muscular atrophy) and he calls himself a cripple. Says the word's definition describes perfectly what his status is.
Maybe if Robbie Savage was still playing....