They weren't by the media. Adebayor was the media culprit, but they were criticised on here.Manchestercitychorlton said:You know what, and I will get slated for this, but I do not care that Rio Ferdinand was injured, nor that Rooney or any of the other players were hit by coins. They deserved it.
If you get paid obscene amounts of money and run over to celebrate in front of rival fans then you can expect it to happen, what do you think people were going to do just sit there and look glum?
Adebayor did it, but were the Arsenal fans castigated by the media for throwing coins at him? were they fuck.
You go to support the team, and make it a hostile environment for the opposition, but throwing coins is too far - to say the least. And you know that