[Football] R*nt b*ys

[Wozza]

Blimey.

FA vows to take action against clubs if their fans chant 'rent boy'

The FA is keen to stamp out abusive and discriminatory chanting in football.

metro.co.uk

 

[Justice]

Only known Chelsea to be on the receiving end of this particular chant

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Blimey.

FA vows to take action against clubs if their fans chant 'rent boy'

The FA is keen to stamp out abusive and discriminatory chanting in football.

metro.co.uk

Hardly surprising really. when you consider it, it’s more offensive than the homophobic stuff we’ve got over the years, which itself would contravene the rules.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Only known Chelsea to be on the receiving end of this particular chant

Really?

The late Sarah Watts used to note homophobic or chants, the time they happened during the game, and place. After each away game, she emailed them to the FA.
It was often chanted at Brighton fans.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Are male prostitutes a protected group now?

 

[doogie004]

Nanny state

 

[Hugo Rune]

Are male prostitutes a protected group now?

I wouldn’t advise using one without protection if that’s what you mean?

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Why would any normal person think it's OK to chant or use discriminatory language in any setting?

Do these people think it makes them look big and brave and clever?

It's pathetic!

 

[Wozza]

Hardly surprising really. when you consider it, it’s more offensive than the homophobic stuff we’ve got over the years, which itself would contravene the rules.

Maybe not, but it's surprising that it's been singled out.

 

[Deleted member 37369]

Are male prostitutes a protected group now?

It's a slur and is intrinsically linked with homophobia!

 

[Whitechapel]

Really?

The late Sarah Watts used to note homophobic or chants, the time they happened during the game, and place. After each away game, she emailed them to the FA.
It was often chanted at Brighton fans.

Homophobic chants? Yes we’ve got more than our fair share aimed at us.

Rent Boys? I’ve never heard that chanted at us.

 

[Eeyore]

Nanny state

Perhaps, but my point has always been that if folk can't go to a football match without making derogatory chants the problem is with them. Most folk can go, get behind the team, and enjoy the match without it.

They managed it for decades before, so what is the problem ? Are folk's lives made so much less by not being allowed to use sexist and homophobic chants ? Who are the real 'snowflakes' here ?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Maybe not, but it's surprising that it's been singled out.

Has it been singled out? Or they are just making clear that (along with half a dozen other chants that are more obviously so) it IS unacceptabl, should there be any doubt.

it has come up because a Chelsea fan group recently made a complaint about it.

 

[albionalbino]

I remember Brighton singing that at Pardew/Coppell/Palace...." Noades's rent boy".

 

[BBassic]

Perhaps, but my point has always been that if folk can't go to a football match without making derogatory chants the problem is with them. Most folk can go, get behind the team, and enjoy the match without it.

They managed it for decades before, so what is the problem ? Are folk's lives made so much less by not being allowed to use sexist and homophobic chants ? Who are the real 'snowflakes' here ?

What's life if you can't casually insult and denigrate an entire demographic. Countries gone to the dogs I tell ya. They'll be banning large scale acts of violence between rival fans next. Gone to the dogs, right to the dogs.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Homophobic chants? Yes we’ve got more than our fair share aimed at us.

Rent Boys? I’ve never heard that chanted at us.

I have, which is why I said it was included in the reports.

As for the snowflakes comment, elsewhere, football is a family game, and kids should not hear discriminatory chants.

Going back to Withdean days, a father was abused by away fans when taking his young son into the gents toilet. Things have got a bit better since then.

 

[Wozza]

Has it been singled out? Or they are just making clear that (along with half a dozen other chants that are more obviously so) it IS unacceptabl, should there be any doubt.

it has come up because a Chelsea fan group recently made a complaint about it.

I was just reading more - apparently it's due to the recent conviction of a Liverpool fan who admitted using the term on his way to last season's FA Cup final against Chelsea.

It's also often aimed at Frank Lampard.

 

[portlock seagull]

Can’t say have ever heard. Probably means “he’s bald, he’s bent, his arse is up for rent, David Armstrong, David Armstrong…” is no longer acceptable. Not least because he’s sadly no longer with us! (Terrific footballer, single handily knocked us out the cup in ‘85. Rip, gone but not forgotten as they say)

 

[el punal]

Why would any normal person think it's OK to chant or use discriminatory language in any setting?

Do these people think it makes them look big and brave and clever?

It's pathetic!

In answer your first question : change normal to abnormal, then it’s yes.

Your second question : Yes

It’s pathetic : Yes

 

[portlock seagull]

I was just reading more - apparently it's due to the recent conviction of a Liverpool fan who admitted using the term on his way to last season's FA Cup final against Chelsea.

It's also often aimed at Frank Lampard.

There’s a video on YouTube of one of our lot at OT singing Mason Greenward’s a sex offender. Stupid thing to do, not least because he’s not.