Leon and the Black Armband [Merged threads]

[scarby]

yeah, but apart from that?

 

[Braders]

missed loads of shot ON PURPOSE so the forest fans went home happy

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Re: can someone please explain?

cannot be arsed to troll through the endless self obsessed drivel that some slagboats post on here

Quote of the week.

 

[clapham_gull]

Liz was not the first person to raise this topic on the phone-in. Someone called Matt mentioned Leon's removing his arm band first. And he was followed immediately by another caller making the same point.

I stopped listening before Liz came on, but clearly there were a number of people in the North Stand who had been upset.

I guess I'm not the only person in the South Stand who saw nothing.

I personally think Liz in her position shouldn't be ringing in a local radio station to complain.

 

[Braders]

FFS amazing really isn't it

when Leon plays a blinder , hes everyones hero , when he has a bad game , he gets abuse

YES the black armband thing was a bit disrespectfully done , he should have dealt with it better but as mentioned in previous threads ,he wasn't the only one to do it

please would people stop bitching

thank you.

 

[NMH]

Re: Re: can someone please explain?

Quote of the week.

Quote of the weak !

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

Re: Re: Re: can someone please explain?

Quote of the weak !

Weirdo.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

So it seems 99%+ of people on here think this is a complete non-issue, then. Quite right, too. I'm somewhat disappointed that Liz Costa, as someone in a position to represent Albion fans, chose to go on the radio and single out one player out of three for criticism when it was nothing to do with her.

If Adam Virgo is offended, that's a matter for him, Leon, Charlie and Michel, but I very much doubt he is. She should have kept her nose out - I only hope she's rather ashamed of herself now.

And London Irish - what's wrong with you? You're being awfully reasonable tonight!

 

[Beach Hut]

This is just so pathetic.

He did nothing wrong and I have to say I believe it was used as a contentious point to give more beef to the phone-in.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

This is just so pathetic.

He did nothing wrong and I have to say I believe it was used as a contentious point to give more beef to the phone-in.

Whilst I'm regularly irritated by the Phone-In's Mrs Merton-style "LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE" approach to trivial issues, I don't think that this particular one was kick-started by Harty.

When the first caller mentioned the alleged incident, IH sounded completely baffled and simply said that he hadn't got a clue what the caller was talking about.

It was only when the next caller made the same point that Harty realised that something had apparently happened. Obviously it took off from then.

Did ANYONE in the South Stand see anything at all? I certainly didn't.

 

[Beach Hut]

Well I saw nothing from the North Stand, albeit entrenched by the hammer nets - with a fine view of certain people in the south Stand in the front row

 

[Yorkie]

I was in the South stand and didnt see anything.

I've just read this whole thread and wished I hadn't. It seems like everyone has just had an excuse to have a go at everyone else yet again.

 

[Comedy Steve]

I saw the whole thing, officer (from 2nd row of Block R)

Leon had come down the channel and had just been wrestled off the ball quite physically by one of the Forest players, who (I believe) had grabbed him by his armband (as well as his head, and waist!). As the ball had gone back up field, Leon stomped a few yards up and yanked at his armband (which was now round his wrist) and flung it off. A handful of people started shouting "pick it up!" but that soon turned into one guy going "Leon, show some f***ing respect", which then turned into "F***ing pick it up you b**tard", which elicited the 'f**k off' reaction from Leon (which was practically under his breath, but you could defo see the lips move - I couldn't hear it) and then about 2 minutes later, he shouted "w***er" at Leon, to which Leon just did a w**ker signal back, and a few people cheered, quite ironically. Somebody had a word I think cos the bloke shut up after that.

Personally I felt Leon was wound up before the game tonight, but he seemed more annoyed from the mix-up with OGH when they were both through on goal in the first half, than he did the penalty save. Anyway, the idiot who abused him clearly got what he wanted because LK was pretty much anonymous in the 2nd half, I felt.

Anyway, my personal view is that the few touches of brilliance Leon showed, some of them AFTER all this kicked off, reaffirmed my belief that not only should we get behind Leon, but we should make a special effort to applaud him regardless - because he's a fragile and talented personality player, and the better screwed on his head is, the better he'll play. My tuppence worth.

 

[London Irish]

And London Irish - what's wrong with you? You're being awfully reasonable tonight!

Shut it Toad - you should be hanging your head with shame at the disgraceful performance of your first team today at Shithurst Park Or am I confusing you with your comedy partner again

......oh and great post from Comedy Steve there - sums the entire issue up in a nutshell.

Really, if this armband crap gains any momentum at all over the next few days - and surely it deserves to disappear straight away - but if it does, then we should be looking to send Leon messages of support to demonstrate that the likes of Liz Costa DO NOT represent the views of Brighton fans on this issue.

 

[Richard Whiteley]

Re: Lets all pick on Leon Knight shall we?

He obviously gets on well with the rest of the team and despite his penalty miss the two team mates who were on the radio were full of praise for him.

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Completely agree with everything you said, especially this...do you remember last season, an NSC poster starting threads about how Leon didn't get on with the other players and would be off. Can't remember the wind up merchant's name...something like Mitchie Doris...something like that....

 

[the wanderbus]

who is Liz Costa? just a fan like the rest of us,o.k because of her position she may be a bit overblown & self important but surely leon can ignore people like her & hart , the palace fan in disguise

 

[dougdeep]

Could you explain the " Palace Fan in Disguise" bit?

 

[C1 BHA]

Ian Hart is a Palace fan in disguise.....

 

[Easy 10]

Notice that when Liz Costa calls the phone-in, she chooses to make it abundently clear that its Liz COSTA (and not just "Liz").

Just so we all KNOW, like.

 

[Safeway]

Whilst I'm regularly irritated by the Phone-In's Mrs Merton-style "LET'S HAVE A HEATED DEBATE" approach to trivial issues, I don't think that this particular one was kick-started by Harty.

When the first caller mentioned the alleged incident, IH sounded completely baffled and simply said that he hadn't got a clue what the caller was talking about.

It was only when the next caller made the same point that Harty realised that something had apparently happened. Obviously it took off from then.

Agree the caller mentioned it first, but Hart replied something along the lines of "I wasn't going to say anything until someone else mentioned it". That, to me, meant that Hart HAD seen something but wasn't sure how to interpret it.