City fans arrested after Sunderland game :(

[Deleted member 14625]

EDIT: you know what? I don't want to get involved!

 

[MCFCinUSA]

They got caught bang to rights and were punished, serves them right.

Ok, I'm sure many of us have shoplifted the odd bar of chocolate in our youth or done some jolly jape as a drunken laugh, I should know, but for grown "adults" to behave in this way is disgraceful in my opinion. Not on at all, mob mentality rules again, no excuses I'm afraid, and their mates defending them should know better.

If your a football fan attending a game you're reperesenting your team, and any stupid behaviour reflects badly on MCFC. If I worked for the club I'd ban anyone convicted/cautioned/fined/aprehended with anything connected to gametime, home or away.

Sadly the paltry fine is hardly punishment enough, the lads involved are probably laughing about it now with their mates thinking they're "well cool innit?" I'm quite liberal minded about a lot of things, but for petty crime and vandalism and repeated behaviour I say bring back the stocks in town centres, name and shame.

seems some people can't see beyond the end of their noses or the bottom of their pint pots. Does anyone think Sheik Mansour would look at publicity like this and brush it off as just "a bit of fun", certainly not. our owner is an honourable man with high moral standards, and if he thought these were being compromised by mindless morons who think they can do what they feel like "cos its a laugh and shit happens" how long will he stick around to watch? we could of course go back to the "good old days" when the club didn't have a pot to piss in, brought in free or shit players and never had ambitions of being amongst the elite of world football...at least that way no one will give a shit if the fans behave like highwaymen

in reference to Oasis & Skies above:-

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan</a>

for suspected 'theft' of around $5,000 this has been widely reported and caused a bit of a political hot potato for the US gov't who brushed it under the carpet:-

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In April 2009, an abridged version of the tape was posted by ABC News.[13][14] In the video, taken at some time in 2005,[6] shows Issa beating another man, an Afghan grain merchant called Mohammed Shah Poor, with a wooden plank with protruding nails, firing an automatic weapon into the sand around him and forcing a cattle prod into his anus before turning it on.[6] Prior to the abuse, the video allegedly shows a man in a UAE police uniform tying the victim's arms and legs; at a later point, Issa urges the cameraman to move in closer with the words, "Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show." [6] The victim also appeared to have been run over by a Mercedes SUV, have lighter fluid poured on his genitals and set alight,[6] and had salt poured on his wounds.[6][15]
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[Dannyctid]

seems some people can't see beyond the end of their noses or the bottom of their pint pots. Does anyone think Sheik Mansour would look at publicity like this and brush it off as just "a bit of fun", certainly not. our owner is an honourable man with high moral standards, and if he thought these were being compromised by mindless morons who think they can do what they feel like "cos its a laugh and shit happens" how long will he stick around to watch? we could of course go back to the "good old days" when the club didn't have a pot to piss in, brought in free or shit players and never had ambitions of being amongst the elite of world football...at least that way no one will give a shit if the fans behave like highwaymen

in reference to Oasis & Skies above:-

<a class="postlink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issa_bin_Zayed_Al_Nahyan</a>

for suspected 'theft' of around $5,000 this has been widely reported and caused a bit of a political hot potato for the US gov't who brushed it under the carpet:-

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In April 2009, an abridged version of the tape was posted by ABC News.[13][14] In the video, taken at some time in 2005,[6] shows Issa beating another man, an Afghan grain merchant called Mohammed Shah Poor, with a wooden plank with protruding nails, firing an automatic weapon into the sand around him and forcing a cattle prod into his anus before turning it on.[6] Prior to the abuse, the video allegedly shows a man in a UAE police uniform tying the victim's arms and legs; at a later point, Issa urges the cameraman to move in closer with the words, "Get closer. Get closer. Get closer. Let his suffering show." [6] The victim also appeared to have been run over by a Mercedes SUV, have lighter fluid poured on his genitals and set alight,[6] and had salt poured on his wounds.[6][15]
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Never took his season ticket off him though did they!
Got off easy if you ask me. Jammy git.

 

[MCFCinUSA]

yeah Danny, ehehe, and of course he wasn't even convicted of anything... this was just a friendly little chat for 45 minutes in the desert.

(and besides, watching City at times over the past few seasons is punishment enough in some respects - no wonder it has turned a few to a life of crime and drugs, drunkenness and debauchery)

 

[usacitizen]

Think there's a bit of a generation gap on this one, it seems.
The teens and young 20-somethings think they should be allowed to rob innocent bystanders just because they are 'hardcore City' and 'sing for 90 minutes'.
The older crowd seem to think all football fans should be angels or else put in the stocks, flogged and banned for life.
Both are wrong. Shit happens, but it does'nt make it right. Pass the popcorn, this could be a 30-pager

Nice call! Ok, Oracle, how much will we win by next Sunday?