The abuse of Football players..Is it getting too much?

The abuse of Football players..Is it getting too much?

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Deanno1dad

Original Poster:

601 posts

239 months

Saturday 8th October 2011
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Just fancied starting a good debate about what's acceptable as a fan regarding either light hearted banter from the terraces or Vile chanting that's sometimes heard aimed at a player.

I've never understood the need to get personal and insult a players family or lifestyle outside of the game,I think recently Emanuel Adebayor was mocked by opposition fans regarding the shooting of his friends/team mates.

Even the booing of your own team players when the squads announced to me is detrimental to a players performance.
Should the right to buy a ticket give you the right to say what you like? or is the argument they earn a fortune they can take it!. acceptable?

mickk

29,811 posts

257 months

Saturday 8th October 2011
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The general banter as far as i can see is perfectly acceptable, booing your own team has a negative effect imo

As for the chants that some fans sing regarding Munich, Heysel, concentration camps and other incidents of this nature are disgusting and don't belong in our game.

Chants about individuals are in some cases disgusting but i find them humorous and you'll never stop it.

sneijder

5,221 posts

249 months

Saturday 8th October 2011
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You'll be having the same conversation in 100 years time.

As long as folk aren't throwing bananas on the pitch, just leave it be.

Some sets of fans are knuckledraggers, the Dambusters and Murderers crowd.

If you haven't laughed at something from 20 rows back knowing deep down you shouldn't, then you're doing it wrong.

OllieC

3,816 posts

229 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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The worst abuse you will get as a player will be in the lower / non leagues, as you can hear every word of it, and those guys certainly dont earn megabucks.

I'm a Leicester fan, so there are rarely superstars present, and I have never boeed an indvidual in a leicester shirt, but have the team (a few times over the years, not often, it strikes me as counter productive usually...)

The Adebayor chant is not particularly offensive imho but I can understand why some would find it so. The original version directed at him is probably worse than the newer 'gunmen' one ...

johnxjsc1985

15,948 posts

179 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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Football gets blamed for everything.these people outside of football are still unsavory types so its a society problem not a football one.

andyjo1982

5,084 posts

225 months

Tuesday 11th October 2011
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A football ground is probably about the only place in the country where you can shout the foulest of language at the top of your voice, and you wont get into trouble for it. Imagine someone walking down the street swearing as loud as he/she can, they'd be locked up.

Theres no easy way to stop it, and it probably will still be happening in 1000 years time. I guess its like a release valve, its good for grown men to shout, swear and verbally abuse people for 2 hours at the end of the week...

Is it too much??? Difficult to say as i'm not and never been subjected to that sort of abuse, and some of it is very personal, although on the flip side, if i were being paid even £1000 a week, let alone £100k, i reckon i could put up with it. The lower leagues are rougher, i'd agree. I guess the players know when they're away from home, they are gonna get stick, yet it tends to motivate a lot of the stronger characters, who in turn can lift the rest of the team. I'm happy to admit that i've given my fair share of verbal abuse to players and fans alike (lets not forget that fans get a lot of abuse from home supporters too, though a lot of it, other than in local derbys, is taken with a pinch of salt).

So, whos gonna start the chants going...




Nicko_12345

1,156 posts

215 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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Danny Murphy deserved everything he got a Stoke today, The bloke is a utter !

sneijder

5,221 posts

249 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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andyjo1982 said:
So, whos gonna start the chants going...
In for a week and out for a month,
In for a week and out for a month,
In for a week and out for a month,
ANDYJO1982 IS A TAMPON.

okgo

40,533 posts

213 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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Yes it's disgusting, embarrassing, and not right, the players dont need coins thrown, called fking s by someone 3 foot from them.

Irony being they will be cheering the same player when they play for England the week after (if it's a uk player obv)

sneijder

5,221 posts

249 months

Saturday 15th October 2011
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okgo! said:
Irony being they will be cheering the same player when they play for England the week after (if it's a uk player obv)
No they won't.

The only folk who go to watch Engurland with any kind of enthusiasm are the proles from lower divisions.

I got dragged to watch the three lions play Macedonia. I had no idea what was going on, I had to watch Gary Neville and supress the urge to kill myself.

The players don't like each other, that's the whole reason they play like me on a good day. You get the odd young one with fire in his belly, but the folk who pay his actual wages soon see to that.

RodMod

1,171 posts

223 months

Sunday 16th October 2011
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Give me £200k a week id stand infront of 60k people calling me a .

then when all the people abusing me go home in there sheds ill drive home in my Veron/ Lambo / Phantom etc to my mansion in Buckinghamshire and id think really who is the !

Rod

MaxAndRuby

6,792 posts

247 months

Monday 17th October 2011
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I think their remuneration is irrelevant, they shouldn't have to put up with it. I can't remember a player biting for years though, not since Beckham at West Ham(that was about as bad as it gets). Lots of hypocrisy involved though, I remember being appaulled at the level of abuse by our fans levelled at Jolean Lescott at a Mersey Derby a few years ago, yet I couldn't help but laugh when Rooney was warming up on saturday and some shouted at him "Rooney, you fat Granny Shagger!". Wrong though.