I think they should be named and shamed once identified. Show these young POS the hard way that their actions do bear consequences and make them rethink if it was worth screwing up the rest of their lives now that no one will want to hire the disrespectful twats because they mocked someone who just passed.
I know its a different culture, but banning someone for insulting a dead man doesn’t make any sense here lol. Are the football chants respectful over there? I know people here will say that we are racists, which is true for all of our countries, but at least we are not constantly solemn.
I know people here will say that we are racists, which is true for all of our countries, but at least we are not constantly solemn.
If you’d rather be racist than “solemn”, I don’t know what to tell you.
Shame they never take this stance for the numerous times their fans have mocked the Hillsborough disaster. Obviously this is the correct course of action but it does feel like a slap in the face when nothing happens when City fans are constantly singing about Hillsborough both at the Etihad and at Anfield. The best we get is a half assed “sorry if you’re offended, if it happened” apology from Pep and that’s basically it
Classy move City. I would want my club to take the same action if the situation was reversed.
And so it should be, Franny Lee died the other week (with sadly much less fanfare it seems) and I’d be angry hearing United fans singing songs about his death
I feel like the existence of Hillsborough and Munich chants create something that cuts through our rivalry, we share that utter hatred for them. Which makes it additionally awful when the worst fans do it to each other.
The thing about Munich chants by City fans is it reveals how stupid and ignorant they are, because Frank Swift, who was covering the game for the News of the World, died in the crash.
That’s Frank Swift, who played his entire professional career for Manchester City as a goalkeeper, won the FA Cup in 1934 and the League in 1937, and won 19 caps for England.
So you’re joking about the death of one of the very best players in the history of your club. Stupid.
soft
It’s one of the most heartless things to celebrate a person’s death, especially for a petty things like sport rivalry. We don’t live in medieval time anymore. Wake the fuck up.
Is it offensive to ask what they were chanting?
“Bobbys in a box”
Idiots
I find myself cringing a bit about how shit that is, agreeing with you that they’re idiots, but thinking it’s absolute overkill to ban people for it.
They have the right to exclude people for behaviour they don’t want, it’s a private stadium owned by a private company, but it’s a bit OTT to me.
Asking a question ain’t offensive mate 👏🏾
Shows what you know about Reddit.
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What did those people chant ?
the silver lining about that is that this could be a wake up call for those dumbfucks, considering they looked like teenagers or young adults
but who im kidding, prob won’t change a thing
Sports are full of trash talk but it is just a game at the end of the day. When the talk goes beyond simple insults and instead is directed at the dead or violence, it should not be tolerated.
I think City is right to ban them as it is clear these people are incapable of keeping their heads on straight and understanding the limits of this game. We have too many man children in todays age
Yeah I’m watching the Beckham docu with my girlfriend and she was like “why are they so mad at him” after he got sent off against Argentina and I was like “football fan culture is the most toxic out there”.
I’ve been attending games since I was 5 (in multiple different countries) and fans everywhere are toxic, racist, insulting, provoking, violent.
I love football but the toxicity has been getting worse and worse and its now all over social media as well. That’s my rant.
I don’t think it’s just this sport either. It feels like people in every day life are more spoiled, toxic, and violent. What’s wrong with people
Of all the players to revel in one’s death, you pick on the classiest most gentleman footballer that probably ever played in England.
Absolute tossers.
Never forget that Man City players and staff sang about Liverpool fans being “battered in the streets”.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/outrage-man-city-players-filmed-16275920
The song was written shortly after Liverpool fan Sean Cox suffered life-altering injuries after being attacked in Rome. When confronted with this fact, what was City’s defence? They weren’t singing about Sean Cox, but rather they were singing about Liverpool fans being attacked by masked hooligans in Madrid (!)
So not only is the club built on financial doping, they’ve got a loooong history of being utterly classless. This horrible chant about Sir Bobby is just the most recent episode.
I think you’ve misunderstood, they didn’t intend offence and therefore it’s not offensive
Well done. I have to say that City have tended to be fairly lax on banning fans for this sort of thing, so hopefully this is a sign of change.
It was just some banter in poor taste. Doubt Sir Bobby would care. He’s heard much worse.