What fun watching middle aged men foaming at the mouth & throwing coins etc

[Dorset Gooner]

surely they must be embarrassed?

[Curly]

Annoyed him even more when I stopped to pick them up.Got me lunch out of it that day

[Ashberto]

or meeja people and ex-head of the FA initially accusing Theo of inflammatory behaviour while excusing the coin-chuckers. Thankfully today the papers seem to have the focus in the right direction.

[Berni]

What they are effectively saying is: 'We are semi-sentient beings unable to exercise even the most basic control over our animal impulses and unable to ignore even the mildest provocation without becoming chimpanzees'

Scum.

[Curly]

[Ashberto]

[PSRB]

me and my mate just looked at each other, shook our heads and laughed.

The Theo situation is ridiculous, they were already lobbing stuff at him before he did the 2-0 thing.

[Monty91]

Whether Theo should be punished for incitement is up for legitimate debate.

[Berni]

[Pokster]

rolling on the ground to be near our fans :rolleyes:


There again I was at Wembley in 1999 when we gave ****tingham abuse galore when he was warming up and then fans complained when he held 3 fingers up

[PSRB]

to "we hope you die" before he even did that. If you can't control yourself over a little bit of "bantz" from a player that you have physically and verbally abused over a completely non-offensive gesture (and something that was very visible on the scoreboard) then you need medical help

[Curly]

It's a free one for them.Ban him for 2 games knowing he's going to miss them through injury anyway and they come out looking tough

[Monty91]

react badly to even mild provocation and players therefore do have a responsibility to avoid gestures that may incite them.

Like a lot of things, it is about degrees of incitement. If he had quickly flashed the score at them and put his fingers down, then that's not so bad, but to hold them up for several seconds while being carried past them is enough to justify an FA ticking off, imo (whilst also seriously punishing the coin throwers)

[PSRB]

on a saturday, first and foremost

[Ashberto]

What next, ban all goal celebrations in case fans get upset? Fans love giving it out - they should be able to take it back without running to the police or having someone else do it for them.

[PSRB]

[Snin]

[Berni]

[Curly]

They have always frowned upon "retaliation"

[Monty91]

football. All football can do is ensure its representatvies behave reponsibly and in a way that is sensitive to the fact that football fans are inclined to act like sub-human scum.

[Ashberto]

'provocatively provoking' their faint-hearted neighbours?

[Monty91]

North London Derby. I mean, they were throwing coins at him before he'd even done anything!

[Monty91]

where representatives of the club have a responsibility to avoid acts of provocation that would ordinarily seem trivial.

As I said, it is often a matter of degrees. I think a quick flash of the score by Theo would not have caused anywhere near as much controversy. Continuing the gesture as he was carried past them was silly of him and I would not object to him receiving an FA ticking off (but not a ban).

[Ashberto]

We are dealing with a special case of Spurs fans' collective mental illness combo of perpetual delusion and disappointment, coupled with a propensity for violence that is fortunately rare these days.

[PSRB]

so he kept doing it

[Monty91]

doing so, however bad the provocation from fans.

The fact is that if players are given carte blanche to provoke fans in such a way it would only lead to more coin throwing.

[Hillary]

engaging in a provocative goal celebration in front of opposition fans. Does anyone know of such a thing? :-)

[Monty91]

of fire.

[Brentwood]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdKZb-sCAAEA1qt.jpg

[CrossGun]

Didn't Bale make a 2-1 gesture to our fans last season? What's the big deal? That is not incitement imo...

It's nothing like Gascoigne playing an imaginary flute at Parkhead or that f**king nutjob Graeme Souness planting a big f**k off Galatasaray flag in the centre of the Fenerbache pitch after beating them in a final. :hehe:

[PSRB]

[Monty91]

a fine.

[Classic Jorge]

I bet nobody questioned him though

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS-2Q1se-_U8cL-xNhEfK61AqJENT85MvXjFKJWiUI9VofcTtHKyw

[Monty91]

In short, I don't care what Piers Morgan says ever.

[Monty91]

[CrossGun]

This is from an interview a few years later

“I played in Liverpool v Everton games and was involved in Galatasaray v Fenerbahce. There’s no comparison. And, yes, one day I would’ve got round to planting a flag at Celtic Park if I’d stayed on as manager of Rangers.

“If I did it in Istanbul then I would have done it at Parkhead.

“The Old Firm game was madder than Istanbul, although a lot of the players carried guns in Istanbul.” :hehe:

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

Another reason to support goalline technology, imo.

['Neg]

[Bergkamp's Brain]

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[Curly]

[redgunamo]

[Trixie Popsicle]