Lewis Dunk - Disabled Fans?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

This appears to be the mother of all non-stories, one guy with a grudge and nothing anywhere else to back it up.

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

I went to see England B play at QPR in the early 90s and took a ball straight on the swede. It was during the warm up and I was talking to a friend, turned around when I heard a fuss and saw (for what seeemed like an eternity) a ball sailing straight at me. It smacked me square on the forehead and left me rather dazed and then headachy for the rest of the evening. A programme stall once fell on my head at Wycombe as well. I had to have treatment for that.

Blimey, being smacked by a wayward football is all part of the game and to be taken on the chin (or wherever) - but a programme stall falling on your head was either a freak mishap and incredibly unlucky - or was the stall (ahem) being luzzed during a fracas on the terraces? I'm guessing it was probably the former if it was at Wycombe, which is hardly a hotbed of nawtiness.

 

[wellquickwoody]

If he did actually mock the disabled fan purely because they are disabled then I want him to get banned Brighton player or not.

What do you actually think your comment added to this debate, seriously?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Blimey, being smacked by a wayward football is all part of the game and to be taken on the chin (or wherever) - but a programme stall falling on your head was either a freak mishap and incredibly unlucky - or was the stall (ahem) being luzzed during a fracas on the terraces? I'm guessing it was probably the former if it was at Wycombe, which is hardly a hotbed of nawtiness.

It was an old-school stand, like a London newspaper stand, but with two poles up either side of the front and a huge metal "Programmes" sign on the top. It was halfway up a residential drive and as I was queuing it fell over and the sign smacked me on the head. I got taken into the ground's medical centre and patched up and looked after until the game started. Freak and unlucky. This is a slightly different story to the one I told after the game: "you should have seen the state of the Wycombe fan's face" was my general response.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It was an old-school stand, like a London newspaper stand, but with two poles up either side of the front and a huge metal "Programmes" sign on the top. It was halfway up a residential drive and as I was queuing it fell over and the sign smacked me on the head. I got taken into the ground's medical centre and patched up and looked after until the game started. Freak and unlucky. This is a slightly different story to the one I told after the game: "you should have seen the state of the Wycombe fan's face" was my general response.

If that had happened to anyone now, they'd have sued them (probably rightly!).

 

[Wally Goulds right toe]

I went to see England B play at QPR in the early 90s and took a ball straight on the swede. It was during the warm up and I was talking to a friend, turned around when I heard a fuss and saw (for what seeemed like an eternity) a ball sailing straight at me. It smacked me square on the forehead and left me rather dazed and then headachy for the rest of the evening. A programme stall once fell on my head at Wycombe as well. I had to have treatment for that.

You're middle name's not lucky is it?

 

[Seagull Steve]

As a disabled bloke myself, I would, and do regularly have a pop at opposition players, and expect them to coat me back. Being disabled has nothing whatsoever to do with it. I don't believe this non story anyway.

 

[Grombleton]

As a disabled bloke myself, I would, and do regularly have a pop at opposition players, and expect them to coat me back. Being disabled has nothing whatsoever to do with it. I don't believe this non story anyway.

Genuine question: So you feel that some people may use their disability as a 'barrier'? In that they can shout what they want and feel safe, knowing that it would be wrong for someone to come back at them in that manner?

 

[British Bulldog]

As a disabled bloke myself, I would, and do regularly have a pop at opposition players, and expect them to coat me back. Being disabled has nothing whatsoever to do with it. I don't believe this non story anyway.

I'm exactly the same in being a disabled bloke who's happy to give it out and I expect take it back in return, like you say being disabled has nothing to do with it.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Recall nobby horton knocking a notts county fan out his wheelchair during pre match warm up,he did apologies though!

 

[Randsta]

Does being inbreed count as a disability

 

[Dick Head]

If he did actually mock the disabled fan purely because they are disabled then I want Frankie Howerd to say, "It's wicked to mock the afflicted" Brighton player or not.

 

[T.G]

Whinemore Shite!!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

A programme stall once fell on my head at Wycombe as well.

Blimey! They really threw the book at you!

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

If that had happened to anyone now, they'd have sued them (probably rightly!).

It was a genuine accident but it was a bit daft placing the stand on an sloping driveway; it was just waiting to topple over. But yes, in this day (and if it happened to someone else) I'm sure there would have been a solicitor involved. I did feel sorry for the programme seller, he seemed more shocked than me, and I had to reassure him a number of times it was not an issue.

 

[Seagull Steve]

Genuine question: So you feel that some people may use their disability as a 'barrier'? In that they can shout what they want and feel safe, knowing that it would be wrong for someone to come back at them in that manner?

Yes I do think it happens sometimes. Some, and I mean a very small amount do hide behind their disability. It is something I have never done. If I had a go at you for whatever reason, I'd certainly expect you to come back at me, and rightly so. But I have to say that I genuinely haven't seen any of The Albion's army of disabled supporters, being obnoxious or over the top.