should arsenal fans be banned

I can't believe that despite the ridiculous amount of attention this whole incident has had I've yet to hear any media outlet criticise the arsenal fans. Apparently football hooliganism is acceptable if a former player runs the length of the pitch to celebrate, i wonder what the official distance is at which a player needs to go to invoke the hooliganism is unavoidable card!

I read today how a city steward was knocked unconscious by a thrown chair, not one mention of pinpointing the hooligans and getting them banned from every ground in the country, oh no, We should probably try and find this brave, decent man who took the only action any reasonable football fan would, and ask him to become an ambassador for our world cup bid.

I seem to recall the young west ham striker Stanislas celebrating a little over zealously to the Milwall fans in what was a slightly heated environment. There wasn't quite the clamour for a ban then. It's all about media hysteria and unfortunately people are scared that we're gonna break up the big 4 cartel and they don't like it. Players celebrating to opposing fans happens every week the only difference in this case was: the distance Ade ran to do so, which is really quite an irrelevant fact, it's either okay or it isnt to taunt the opposition. The second difference was the arsenal fans reaction, most fans scream a torrent of abuse back and that's it, these cockney thugs attempted to get onto the pitch and attacked our groundstaff. Absolute disgrace!
 
I'm an Arsenal fan and I share this user account with my mate who supports City. I lurk on this forum quite regularly. I've skim read the threads about Adebayor. Some of you have mentioned 'vile chants' & racism. I was in the away section and there was absolutely no vile chants or racism. Maybe you have confused the songs? Our new Arshavin song is to the tune of the Adebayor one and goes 'He's 5 foot 4. He's 5 foot 4. We've got Arshavin , Fuck Adebayor'. We don't sing the Elephant song, it's a Tottenham song.

Also Kolo Toure was applauded by all of the travelling support. No hint of racism from our fans (in my area or from what I heard on the day)

The reaction of some Arsenal fans wasn't right. As a fan it's very hard to contain your emotions at the best of times (especially after a few pints). Even worse when a player runs the length of the pitch to provoke you. I'm glad I was in the upper tier away from it all.
 
Sharpy_NI said:
I'm an Arsenal fan and I share this user account with my mate who supports City. I lurk on this forum quite regularly. I've skim read the threads about Adebayor. Some of you have mentioned 'vile chants' & racism. I was in the away section and there was absolutely no vile chants or racism. Maybe you have confused the songs? Our new Arshavin song is to the tune of the Adebayor one and goes 'He's 5 foot 4. He's 5 foot 4. We've got Arshavin , Fuck Adebayor'. We don't sing the Elephant song, it's a Tottenham song.

Also Kolo Toure was applauded by all of the travelling support. No hint of racism from our fans (in my area or from what I heard on the day)

The reaction of some Arsenal fans wasn't right. As a fan it's very hard to contain your emotions at the best of times (especially after a few pints). Even worse when a player runs the length of the pitch to provoke you. I'm glad I was in the upper tier away from it all.
So; seeing as you're a "gooner", what's your opinion on throwing bananas at Ade, and how come there's been fuck all condemnation of your mob in the media? Ade gets hung out to dry for doing the same as Mr "Va-Va-Voom" did a few years back against Spuds. It appears to a lot of us on here that if you are one of the Sky 4, you have different rules to the rest of us.
 
Just ban the idiots who were the main culprets.

It wasn't that bad, our fans weren't exactly "friendly" outside the ground either were they?
 
Well the camera cops were in there so I imagine some Arsenal fans will be rightfully banned.
 
Not a snowballs chance in hell of that ever happening, especially when the Chief Executive Officer of the FA is an Arsenal fan.

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.thegunninghawk.com/2009/09/14/fas-ian-watmore-on-adebayor-our-governance-team-will-take-a-good-look-at-both-of-the-incidents/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.thegunninghawk.com/2009/09/1 ... incidents/</a>
 
Blue_Ketchup said:
get over it, Just a bit of banter 90% of the teams in the prem would of done the same.

So throwing bananas, racist chanting and trying to enter the field of play is all just banter? The fact the cops were filming them all means that it should be easy to nail the main offenders, also it wasn't as if it was just one or two of them causing trouble then maybe the incident could be overlooked, do you remember how much fuss was made about city fans after the 8-1 defeat by boro?

Also, I disagree that 90% of fans would have done the same, city fans reacted very well when RVP came over telling us to fuck off, yes we did respone with a few V signs but we didn't try to get onto the pitch.
 

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