2011-2012 English Football Season and STEWART DOWNING WHAT ON EARTH Thread

[Rocket Edge]

That picture is indeed unsettling. Kids there are treated seeing grown men spew hatred & racist abuse and will feel encouraged to do the same, because you know, he's a Man U player. If the roles were reversed I'm sure you would have members of the United fans doing the same. It's a sad fact.

It was bizarre a while back when they wore the t-shirts of support for Suarez. To me it sent a horrible message. 'We will defend our player even though he is yet to be sanctioned for racist abuse'. What got me is that Dalglish didn't have a clue whether or not Suarez was guilty or not, yet he adamently supported him. If I was in his stance I would wait and see what the outcome was before publicly defending him. When the evidence was released it was really awkward hearing him speak afterwards saying there should be guidelines for what should be acceptible to say on the pitch, & that people were taking up the support in the wrong context.

As for the game, it was a tough loss, but that's the way football can go. We played really well I thought, but still came away with a loss. Another day we'd play horribly & win.

[Psychotic]

evra has one old bloke act like a monkey at him and gets booed; EoFF outraged.

anton ferdinand gets sent death threats including a bullet; EoFF does not care.

ho hum.

And I don't think the liverpool end were the ones singing offensive songs about koreans and their dietary preferences but I could be wrong.

(SPOILER)Racism in all forms is abhorrent, the monkey guy is vermin and I'm glad he's going to be banned. The fans who booed Evra are twats. I am finding it very hard to support my football club right now, especially when it was stuff like this (albeit worse) that soured me from supporting my hometown team. But seriously now, the perpetrators of the acts at Liverpool have been punished, either via a suspension or in the case of fans, being banned for life. I get the feeling this has now boiled down to football tribalism. When you apply double standards to Liverpool and use it as a chance to take shots at a rival team, it's only fuelling it and making it worse.

[DK]

When I saw the picture Old Manus posted I hadn't read the post and just saw the picture at a glance, and immediately assumed it was like, a picture of a Swansea game on TV that he'd gone to and been caught on camera in the crowd and I was looking for a welsh guy that looked like Bez from the Happy Mondays, and it took me a while to realise what was actually going on. I kind of thought he was the gimpy looking dude with the fur hood on but something didn't seem quite right. And now I know why.

[Psychotic]

Monkey guy was actually Welsh, so it may well have been our boy Manus!

[Old Manus]

Making monkey noises isn't my style. I just go to the game in blackface.

[Rocket Edge]

evra has one old bloke act like a monkey at him and gets booed; EoFF outraged.

anton ferdinand gets sent death threats including a bullet; EoFF does not care.

ho hum.

And I don't think the liverpool end were the ones singing offensive songs about koreans and their dietary preferences but I could be wrong.

(SPOILER)Racism in all forms is abhorrent, the monkey guy is vermin and I'm glad he's going to be banned. The fans who booed Evra are twats. I am finding it very hard to support my football club right now, especially when it was stuff like this (albeit worse) that soured me from supporting my hometown team. But seriously now, the perpetrators of the acts at Liverpool have been punished, either via a suspension or in the case of fans, being banned for life. I get the feeling this has now boiled down to football tribalism. When you apply double standards to Liverpool and use it as a chance to take shots at a rival team, it's only fuelling it and making it worse.

The topic at hand Evra & Liverpool. AF's case is worse definitely. Its also a real head-scratcher. How you can be racially abused, then get sent death threats while doing nothing in the first place is beyond me. I'm sure he will get boo'ed when he eventually goes to stamford bridge. Wayne Bridge was the same. Craig Bellamy said it best when he described JT in otherwords as a class A prick. Whats worse is this guy is mean't to the the countries captain. wtf is he going to say to the likes of Rio for instance when he partners him in defence?

As for the chants - it goes on everywhere, just like racism. There is just scumbags in every corner of the planet.

[Cuchulainn]

evra has one old bloke act like a monkey at him and gets booed; EoFF outraged.

anton ferdinand gets sent death threats including a bullet; EoFF does not care.

ho hum.

And I don't think the liverpool end were the ones singing offensive songs about koreans and their dietary preferences but I could be wrong.

(SPOILER)Racism in all forms is abhorrent, the monkey guy is vermin and I'm glad he's going to be banned. The fans who booed Evra are twats. I am finding it very hard to support my football club right now, especially when it was stuff like this (albeit worse) that soured me from supporting my hometown team. But seriously now, the perpetrators of the acts at Liverpool have been punished, either via a suspension or in the case of fans, being banned for life. I get the feeling this has now boiled down to football tribalism. When you apply double standards to Liverpool and use it as a chance to take shots at a rival team, it's only fuelling it and making it worse.

ahh Deflection. KKKeny's and KKlanfields most popular rebuttal. The Eternal Victim mentality from KKKlanfield strides on regardless.

[Psychotic]

Look, cuch, I don't think you know how our relationship works. The whole point is that I say something about Man United or Ireland being tit and then you fly off the handle at me. I just don't think it's going to work the other way around. I'm willing to give it a go and start ranting and raving like only a 30 something man who posts on a FF forum can, but I really don't think we'll be able to capture the same chemistry that we've got going on now.

yes sir I see your signature is very accurate. You are quite clearly pushing the boundaries with your edgy KKK jokes. You english i want to make you eat sausage sandwichs you wee smurf poo.

[Cuchulainn]

SucKKK my CocKKK

Btw: I've never once been pissed off by a single solitary thing you've ever said. So if you're mission is to troll me, you're doing it wrong kid.

[Loony BoB]

Alright boys, back to following the rules of the forums now before I'm obligated to make a serious warning for things like surrounding english BOU's and cock suckage. This thread isn't exempt.

[Hollycat]

someday either the united states is going to have to rename football something else or everywhere else will have to rename football soccer.

[Loony BoB]

Sort of like how after many years, the residents of Germany and Japan gave up and stopped calling them Deutschland / Nippon, right?

[Old Manus]

The yanks have already taken the Wikipedia page for football and are insisting it be called 'Association football' because that's what it says in some 200 year old manuscript, ignoring the fact that everyone else in the world simply calls it 'football'.

[Bubba]

The yanks have already taken the Wikipedia page for football and are insisting it be called 'Association football' because that's what it says in some 200 year old manuscript, ignoring the fact that everyone else in the world simply calls it 'football'.

Yes but what you are forgetting the American attitude to sport. Anything outside of America that is referred to as a sport does not actually exist.

[Psychotic]

Bravo English media you've done it again. One of the best managers in the world has been ousted and we're going to get a lump faced barrow boy for our manager. A rousing success.

I hope Rafael Benitez applies. No, just listen! His strength was knock out cup competitions and getting the most out of god awful tactically inept players (Djimi Traore has a Champions League winner's medal) which is ideal for England. Meanwhile his weakness was spunking transfer fees on crappy players and being abysmal in the league. It's all good!