Two minors suspended by club for offensive chanting at Brighton game | 17 year old charged by GMP (p29)

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
City were right to issue an apology and to distance themselves from the chant.

Can I ask, did the rags ever apologise for THEIR PLAYERS AND STAFF singing "Nick nack paddy whack....... why don't City fuck off home"?
Did the BBC mention the above chant prominently on their website? Did the daily papers highlight this disrespectful chant at the time? It happened a few days after the MEN Arena bombing, where Manchester stood as one and fans put aside their rivalry- yet this was the players.... and went unreported.
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They sing it on every single live game and it's never mentioned and condemned by the commentators. Yet the same commentators will apologise for any bad language you may have heard from the odd shout. Meanwhile thousands of rag turds chant why don't City fuck off home, over and over and not a peep.
 
Cellarite said:
Did he really mock and revel in our club's misery? He called us noisy neighbours and said we wouldn't be the favourites in a derby in his lifetime. I'm not being argumentative - I genuinely can't remember much more than that specifically aimed at City and we've had more fun out of those statements than United have.
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This covers some of his attitude to us. Quite an interesting article in hindsight.

www.theguardian.com

Premier League preview No12: Manchester City | Daniel Taylor

Daniel Taylor: Whether Sir Alex Ferguson and City's other critics like it or not, we are back to the days when there are two clubs in Manchester who count
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Back in WW2, when German aircrew died in Britain, they were buried here with full military honours, German flag on the coffin included. The Germans did the same for our lads.

We have gone from that level of respect - for a mortal enemy - to a world where people mock dead footballers who happened to play for a rival club.

Sick society in so many ways - this is just a symptom, not the illness itself.
 
BrianW said:
Back in WW2, when German aircrew died in Britain, they were buried here with full military honours, German flag on the coffin included. The Germans did the same for our lads.

We have gone from that level of respect - for a mortal enemy - to a world where people mock dead footballers who happened to play for a rival club.

Sick society in so many ways - this is just a symptom, not the illness itself.
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I know what you mean, but have we really? Or is it just that nowadays everyone has a camera to hand to record any instance of misbehaviour.

We're talking maybe 3-5 idiots out of a match with 55k present. 99.9% of people will (even if some slightly grudgingly) pay respect for a rival footballer. Are we certain that more than that used to pay respect to rival soldiers.
 
Lots of hypocrisy on this thread. Seen loads of posts on here about how much of a twat he was but now he’s dead he’s being canonised. Not to mention how badly he treated the families of those who died in Munich

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Cellarite said:
This thread has been an absolute shocker for some blues. It started off really well and respectful to one of the greatest players the country has ever produced.

It soon turned into a debate with quite a few using it to convince themselves and others why Tom Finney, Bobby Moore, Colin Bell or Duncan Edwards were better - completely missing the point that citing a single player for being better than Charlton is actually acknowledging that he was in the top 2/3 English players of all time.

As news emerged that a handful of teenage fuckwits had been chanting a celebratory song about his death, it became the predictable point scoring and a thread posted for people to pay their own respects to the man now includes videos about the death of Leeds fans, the Hillsborough disaster, threats to Joel Glazer and others.

We also have people justifying why they won't be able to be respectful to Alex Ferguson when he dies! "It's not fair, some 'Nited fans put a nasty banner up about City and Alex Ferguson didn't personally climb the stairs to the Stretford End upper tier to take it down! And he backed his own team over their local rivals - there's no way I'll be able to shut my gob for 60 seconds in respect to the death of a man after he said we were noisy neighbours!"

I have my own thoughts on Bobby Charlton but have never met him and only know what I've been told second hand. What I do know though is that he is regarded as probably England's finest ever player and 99% of people who had dealing with him, describe him as a perfect gent. We've all done things that we'd probably change given hindsight.

As the old saying goes, if you've got nothing positive to say, say nowt.

RIP Bobby Charlton.
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Ask his brother Jackie...
 
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