Tragedy Chanting

[CAMiller]

Disrespectful or just 'football banter'? Is it time to ban it and the perpetrators or is it just going a step too far in a world that's becoming soft?

How far do the authorities go in defining a tragedy? Hilsborough, Hysel, Bradford.....what about the Rotherham Child Abuse Scandal? Are scandals fair game but tragedies aren't? Not if one of your relatives was one of the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67337932

[sawmiller]

Disrespectful or just 'football banter'? Is it time to ban it and the perpetrators or is it just going a step too far in a world that's becoming soft?

How far do the authorities go in defining a tragedy? Hilsborough, Hysel, Bradford.....what about the Rotherham Child Abuse Scandal? Are scandals fair game but tragedies aren't? Not if one of your relatives was one of the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67337932

soft or empathic? Should those two Weds fans showing images of the kid with terminal cancer just be allowed to get off with a slap on the wrist?

Everyone would draw the line in a different place - however, the law is clear and there for all (unless you're a mega rich person or a government minister)

We go to support our own sides - not to provoke a scrap with opposition fans, don't we? If the latter, why not do what the Russians do and meet up in the middle of nowhere, kick the feck out of each other, relive Green Street and leave the games for those genuinely interested in the actual game

[Back of the net]

I can’t understand why anyone would want to chant stuff like this. It’s not just football it’s a society problem.
That said I’ve been at Old Trafford and heard the Liverpool supporters chanting about Munich and singing about the Queens death so glass houses and all that.
It’s wrong whoever does it.

[great_fire]

Disrespectful or just 'football banter'? Is it time to ban it and the perpetrators or is it just going a step too far in a world that's becoming soft?

How far do the authorities go in defining a tragedy? Hilsborough, Hysel, Bradford.....what about the Rotherham Child Abuse Scandal? Are scandals fair game but tragedies aren't? Not if one of your relatives was one of the victims.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/67337932

It is banned. There are signs up in the ground about not doing it.

To challenge the totally unacceptable presence of football tragedy abuse, for season 2023-24, regulation changes and tough new measures have been introduced which will see people who are found to have committed offences face stadium bans and potential criminal prosecution.

https://www.thefa.com/news/2023/jul/...paign-20233107

[Karl998yr]

Mix adolescence and/or immaturity with alcohol and this is what you get.
Im afraid it's here to stay short of banning spectators from football altogether

[clarkey1974]

Not condoning anything and not an excuse,probably why the Luton stuff came out,is it was old stuff from years ago probably when they last met it was very much yesteryear chanting..and it won’t have been younger element of fans either….tivoli used to sing those songs and we weren’t even playing any Scouse teams..

[NYSRich]

Were Stoke supporters not guilty of that today? Why did nothing go out on the tannoy?

[great_fire]

Were Stoke supporters not guilty of that today? Why did nothing go out on the tannoy?

The establishment don't consider it a tragedy, just a "cultural misunderstanding".

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Not condoning anything, but generally speaking the game is getting softer and softer

[NYSRich]

I agree Grist, but that’s the world we live in now and you can’t have one rule for some, and one for others. Millwall fans arrested last week for making offensive gestures? (and the BBC all over it)