edgeley blue wrote:IanWright wrote:Good reply. However;
There was no racial or personal chanting against Adebayor in the game, apart from a chant ending with "f*** Adebayor" (hardly crowd ejection material, is it?)
I recall Man City fans in the same area of the stadium having a scuffle with stewards immediately after the Arsenal fans, ahem, "rioted".
I'm not trying to cause a ruck myself, but this issue really needs to be addressed, in my opinion.
Was you at the game? I ask because you must be deaf if you were. From where I was sat I heardthe most vile personal abuse ever towards a player in 32 years of attending City games. If calling someones mother a whore for example is not personal then I dont know what is.
I also definitely saw at least one banana on the pitch, which i suppose is up to debate as to whether it was meant racially.
May I also add that I was on an Arsenal forum before the game and some of the stuff written was bordering on the fatuous. For example one poster hoped that ade would be in a car crash and kill himself. Another wrote, "one of our back four could become a legend if they manage to break ades legs.
To the original poster, a great reply, but there is no need to worry yourself what that comic thinks
I was at the game. I was sitting towards the front but in the middle of all the Arsenal fans.
From there, I can genuinely say that there weren't any songs sung about Adebayor's father washing elephants and his mother being sexually promiscous. I know full well of this awful chant because it was sung at Old Tartford in the Cup game a couple of years back. Like I've said, the only one I heard ended with "f*** Adebayor". Players get far, far worse than that and they don't run the length of the pitch to rub it in to travelling, paying fans. That sort of reaction (from Adebayor) is unheard of and I rack my brains to think of another, similar celebration. Hence, the equal and opposite reaction from Arsenal fans was also uncharacteristic.
If Adebayor genuinely thought there was personal abuse directed at him, then he wouldn't have suddenly accepted the folly of his actions and tried to applaud the Arsenal fans at the end of the game (which was met with unanimous boos, needless to say). If it was of a highly personal nature, then I'd have thought Adebayor would've given a lot more to the Arsenal fans than a knees-sliding celebration in front of them from the other side of the pitch.
I agree that the behaviour of football fans, as a whole, is deteriorating. Chants can be very personal and disgusting to listen to. You often wonder what sub-strata of society these people belong to when you witness their behaviour at games. (Do they only come out at weekends?) I, personally, think that paying fans should buck up their ideas a little, especially when there are young children in the stadium and they're supposed to be setting an example.
"If you asked 100 people, 99 would say Adebayor was wrong. The 100th would be Mark Hughes." Arsene Wenger
