2 fans guilty on gay chant

[beardy gull]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006360734,00.html

TWO Norwich City football fans have become the first to be convicted of homophobic chants.

James Monkhouse, 28, and Michael Church, 24, shouted “queer” taunts at Brighton supporters at a game last February.

But they escaped a match ban after telling Norwich JPs they were responding to jibes that their team’s East Anglian home was “full of inbreds”.

Insurance broker Monkhouse and engineer Church received conditional discharges and paid £200 costs after being convicted of disorderly behaviour.

They both told JPs their chants were part of “football banter” and did not think “queer” was derogatory, insisting they had gay pals.

The court heard police had warned the pair on their behaviour previously but did not consider them hooligans


Jesus, what a waste of time / money.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Yeah, what a pair of FAGS

 

[7:18]

Yeah, what a pair of FAGS

 

[El Presidente]

They should have sent them down, a week or two searching for the soap in the prison shower would have converted them to the joys of BUMSEX and FELCHING.

This does of course give us a dilemma when we go to Ashton Gate this season and sing to the Brizzle fans "You're Welsh, and you know you are", which is surely a worse insult than 'faggot'.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

We will be fined for calling the ref a W*nker soon.

More money and time wasted.

 

[chez]

They should have sent them down, a week or two searching for the soap in the prison shower would have converted them to the joys of BUMSEX and FELCHING.

This does of course give us a dilemma when we go to Ashton Gate this season and sing to the Brizzle fans "You're Welsh, and you know you are", which is surely a worse insult than 'faggot'.

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

 

[El Presidente]

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

From this I can only conclude you would rahter be called.......

Paedophile

Palace Fan


Ginger

 

[Curious Orange]

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Ginger

I SAY, steady on old man, CHILDREN may be reading this

 

[Skint Gull]

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

You must be one of about probably 20 people who actually gives a shit about that! The opposition fans are fully aware that we're not all gay, same as we're aware that not all Gillingham fans are inbreds, and not all Cardiff fans shag sheep! It's called 'BANTER'

Get over it

 

[Billy the Fish]

It a load of shit. They should be allowed to call us queer, we're allowed to call other fans inbreads/sheep shagger/thieves/jobless. Banter is a part of football, if people are too precious to deal with it then they should take up knitting or go shopping with the missus on a saturday

 

[larus]

You must be one of about probably 20 people who actually gives a shit about that! The opposition fans are fully aware that we're not all gay, same as we're aware that not all Gillingham fans are inbreds, and not all Cardiff fans shag sheep! It's called 'BANTER'

Get over it

What are you talking about. It's a well known fact,.... isn't it?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It a load of shit. They should be allowed to call us queer, we're allowed to call other fans inbreads/sheep shagger/thieves/jobless. Banter is a part of football, if people are too precious to deal with it then they should take up knitting or go shopping with the missus on a saturday

I'm not sure that 'jobless' is considered a huge insult, but certainly I can't see that 'gay' is any worse than 'inbred', 'sheep shaggers' or 'welsh'.

The chants generally don't bother me in the slightest. In fact they give the opportunity to respond with some of our wittier ones.

I draw the line at 'HIV' though. That's out of order.

 

[Commander]

What a load of bollocks. Brighton is full of queers, Norwich is full of inbreds. So what?

 

[Redhead]

Ginger

Nothing wrong with being strawberry blonde, its perfectly natural

 

[Commander]

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

Seriously? I would have thought that being called it every week you would get used to it. Doesn't bother me in the slightest, it's banter. If you cant have banter at football we may as well go and watch rugby instead.

 

[seagully]

I'm not sure that 'jobless' is considered a huge insult, but certainly I can't see that 'gay' is any worse than 'inbred', 'sheep shaggers' or 'welsh'.

The chants generally don't bother me in the slightest. In fact they give the opportunity to respond with some of our wittier ones.


Couldn't agree more. 'You're too ugly to be gay' is a great chant and usually leaves the opposition fans scratching their heads for a witty reply.

Banter between football fans is part of what makes the English game so great

 

[CHAPPERS]

There is no worse insult than being called a faggot, which is why I get so angry when fans sing it to us.

What about being called a murderer or a racist?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Couldn't agree more. 'You're too ugly to be gay' is a great chant and usually leaves the opposition fans scratching their heads for a witty reply.

Banter between football fans is part of what makes the English game so great

Exactly.

After the last couple of matches, I want to hear '1-0 to the nancy boys' ressurected.

 

[seagully]

Exactly.

After the last couple of matches, I want to hear '1-0 to the nancy boys' ressurected.