Just out of interest - would it be equally acceptable if the chants were racist ?
What if people chanted to Leicester, Bradford, Luton etc, your just a town full of Pakis? acceptable then?
didn't look the best advert for Brighton support from where I was in the Sir Alf stand.....
Look at the picture in the Argus. These are the people who were whining to the stewards about homophobic abuse. Not Liz Costa. My suspicion is that they don't really give a damn about homophobia but just want to use it to wind up the stewards. I may be doing them a disservice. Perhaps they are all Guardian readers, who knows they may all be gay.
No racist wouldnt be allowed, i know people can say same for Homophobic chants, everyone i speak too young and old have said that it dont really bother them as they take it as banter, its just like Spurs with chanting Yids for themselves which they are trying to take out as well, its what football fans do so its not going to go away i dont think no matter what they try and do
Those people you spoke to, were they all gay? As for the Tottenham fans, if you bothered to follow the story closer you would have known that there are many fans from the Jewish community that don't like the chant as there are some Jewish fans (from what can be seen of the media reports, normally the younger ones) who aren't bothered by it. The 'does you boyfriend know you're here' chant is probably seen by many as banter, even probably some gays, but it seems that when people are thrown out it is for shouting more vitriolic and hateful comments which most of the singing fraternity aren't joining in with.
No racist wouldnt be allowed, i know people can say same for Homophobic chants, everyone i speak too young and old have said that it dont really bother them as they take it as banter, its just like Spurs with chanting Yids for themselves which they are trying to take out as well, its what football fans do so its not going to go away i dont think no matter what they try and do
So then Sam, how do you think racist chanting & 'banter' was largely removed from our terraces? Do you think somebody planted a few magic beans a quarter of a century ago: & when they sprouted up all the abuse suddenly - & indeed miraculously - stopped??
Have a good think about it & see if you can work it out.
Based on that picture, those top left are engaging in "banter", those bottom right are looking for trouble and this week's excuse is homophobic chanting. Next week it could be knitting, shoes, cardigans - anything really, I'm sure they are not bothered.
Based on being there, two seats along from the young lad in the bottom left hand corner, I wouldn't describe anything I heard as banter.