And another thing, there will come a time when the term “swear word” will only exsist in the minds of the extremely religous
( no offense meant )

your the love of my life

oh danny tiatto

ill let you shag my wife

oh danny tiatto

i wish i was a sik cu#t toooo”

repeat
love it.
just on whats acceptable, spare a thought for poor ol becks and Posh.
search engine “posh spice is a slapper”
here is just one of about a million

Posh Spice is a slapper,
She take’s it up the Arsenal,
And when she’s shagging Beckham,
She thinks of Ian Marshall!
oooh ian ian ian marshall ….blah blah blah

and that one is pretty tame. even the green and gold army cant help having a go at Posh. but in my view it sounds brilliant. few beers, few poems, few laughs. and its not only football fans up to creative mischief. heres a link of the barmy army aving a go at brett lee, and i think he likes it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2gL7LKJ0s&feature=related

No wonder in the world history of the futbol, there have been two gay men who played at the highest levels, one of whom was abused by his manager, and neither of whom came out whilst they were playing. Thats the same number as the NFL, which is supposebly an insular code.

The fact that upwards of 10 Tottenham fans could be banned for singing a song towards Sol Campbell that was simply misunderstood as being both racist and homophobic, simply because he is black, when the chant had been sung numerous times previously by other clubs to other players (including Melbourne Victory to Chrisitan Sarkies) without incident is ridiculous. I’m sick of all this political correctness that is pissing on free-speech in Western society. If people don’t want to hear the Squadron call Mark Bridge a c@#t, then don’t sit near them, god knows there is enough empty seats at Energy Australia stadium.

But generally it has to be remembered that football was initially and spiritually an escape of sorts for the working class masses in particular from overbearing institutions like Factories etc where they are micro managed by elititsts etc, which can include the overbearing institution of political correctness and in some respects the Terraces are freedom from that for a lot of people, which is half the point in the tongue in cheek chanting and banners

The Hyde article is another example of the politically correct media with nothing better to do

Generally, football has moved on obviously and encompasses the Middle Classes more now and has become mainstream, but the Terraces have always been about freedom of expression, in Craoi Fosters precious Barcalona’s case this was an instance of the Barca Terraces being filled with anti Franco songs and Catalan nationalism

Perhpas Italy is slightly imbalanced a bit too much, as the optimum outcome is one where there is a good committed hardcore who attend each week and some casual family types, which to me seems to be what they have in Germany

In Englands case, the active fans have been persecuted through All Seater Stadia agenda designed to drive the working classes out, or to the lower tiers

But the sentiment of this article is the type of crap you often see to justify pedantic over the top stereotype driven policies, in the Australian context it gets stupid to the point where fans who boo their fiercest rivals Captain for 2 seconds in the highest stakes Grand Final get berated by Ben Buckley, then have a person from the AFL who has only been involved in football for 2 years at that stage trying to tell life long committed fans about the spirit of football, not to mention a few other things

And for what, some hysterical fear that you are “driving the families” away, this reminds me of the crap F-Troop had to put up with after NQ’s first game, if family types don’t like the Terraces just sit away from them. Another thing is that there are also many family types in the Terraces themselves, mostly because the parents grew up through them and understand there is no real risk in them, just need a bit of common sense and stand towards the side slightly
And for what, because of some hysterical fear

Ironically people go on abut the “threat” the active fans pose, but football would be boring to watch live if it was a sterile experience, better and cheaper to watch at home

There is perfect legitimacy in wanting to be able to go to football and enjoy the “entertainment experience” without having the confines of political correctness

Within limits of course, eg no serious racism or serious homophobia

LEAVE ARSENE ALONE!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZAr9E8i3ng

Fame can await you too! :0

At least there trying to be funny which I think takes a lot of the venom out of it.

“Martin Jol’s having a party bring your vodka and your charlie, Arsene Wenger’s having a party, bring your sweeties and your smarties…”

Is it better, worse or the same?

Really, if you are Constable Bobby at the football charged with chucking out the singers of vile songs, where do you draw the line? Every song that links Spurs to Jews? Songs about player’s mums, wives or kids?

Praise to the Victory, league leaders in chants and voice,

but…when i sit in the stands at roar matches (with my head down in shame, and thinking here it comes again) and the opposing goalie kicks the ball in play to the sound of

“your shit ahhhhhhh”

Lord Jesus Mary Christ, forgive them father for they know not how to sing. its not rude, its just not funny and it dosnt work.

when celtics were here for preseason, they gave Brisbane a lesson in football gospel. a day i will never forget.

wake up orange army ” Your shit oooooo omg”…

My general rule is if your saying something vile it better be really funny and that chant fails.

No one is demanding that the crowd stop singing. People are merely asking – and Manchester United is asking – that their fans stop singing this particular song. The idea that we’ll kill all terrace wit if we ask people to stop singing about paeodophilia or people dying at Hillsborough is just moronic, and rather reminds me of those who used to argue that we shouldn’t be too hard on hooligans becaus “they bring passion to the game”.

I’m not defending their behaviour, merely saying fans are responsible for their own actions and in my opinion, they didn’t cross the line, it was tasteless yes but I don’t think it deserves further punishment.

It’s the same as calling Frank Lampard fat (and don’t say it’s not, more people have self-image problems than problems being called something they clearly know they are not), it’s a ridiculous claim made by the fans to wind someone up, if it works, then they succeed but what would you prefer WC?

No more even possibly slightly offensive chants? No thanks, I love listening to the crowd and I’m sure anyone who has been to an English game would agree it’s definitely a part of the game that belongs in football, otherwise the authorities would have come down harder when they made all of their changes regarding Hooliganism.

Equally, both you and Freud seem unaware that Wenger almost walked away from Arsenal back in 1996 when these ridiculous rumours first surfaced. Do neither of you remember his furious press conference at the Highbury gates? It’s a long way from being “water off a duck’s back”.

It’s a pretty sad day when fans are defending such behaviour on the grounds that “football isn’t cricket”. In fact, it’s embarrassing.

Manager’s in general are older, there aren’t many around that are younger than 37-38 and you’d think by that age they should be able to handle it.

As for the chants directed at the other players, well that’s an entirely different matter.

Anything that involved race should not be tolerated but the line has to be drawn somewhere and to be honest I think the chants at Wenger didn’t cross that line, while they were obviously disgusting you can’t deem everything that might be considered offensive as having gone too far.

Fans need to control themselves, there were supposedly chants of “where’s your daddy?” to Jack Collison playing two days after his father died in a motorcycle accident and while I find that disgusting, if fans want to chant it, then so be it, it makes them look like redneck hicks but if they don’t care, you wouldn’t stop them anyway.

Sadly, this is very much a north west of England thing. The lumpen proletariat of Manchester and Liverpool have long competed for the title of England’s mouthiest, vilest, most uncouth people.

Here’s a list of the things that didn’t happen to Arsene Wenger at Man U when he grandstanded, played up to the crowd and hammed it up in on the Man U presentation platform in an effort to make a spectacle of himself:
- Spat on
- Physically assaulted
- Bombarded with objects
- Had water or beer or food thrown at him (which is very Man U v Arsenal)
- Racially heckled (and he’s French!).

He got called a nasty name. Yes – it’s a vile thing to be called, but in the scheme of football crimes, it rates very low. There are plenty of things that need to be addressed in football before we get to “Stamping out fans calling the manager or players of your opposing team very nasty names”.

Cheers
md

Also waiting for Gold Coast United to do a hybrid to Spandau Ballet’s hit song “Gold”

It could work!

On the point of chants people can be very clever with what they call a player without having to result to bad language.

The chant for him was “Rickets for England”! I thought that was clever!

One of the reasosn I don’t think the 2018 bid is locked up in Englands favor as people make out.