by Forbury Lion »
17 Mar 2015 10:03
LWJ Anyone hear this? Bradford fans seem to think we did..
I'd be looking closer to home mate.
The behaviour of your fans was disgraceful last night.
Chants about the fire, waving lighters and throwing a flare into the away end at full time. Not to mention the pitch invasion. I know quite a few City fans having taken video footage and will be complaining to your club and the FA.
Then you've got the cheek to come on here and have a go at us for something that is highly debateable as to whether it even happened or not
If they did film it then they should complain to the FA and the club, idiots like that deserve to face the consequences, particularly the person who threw the smoke bomb into the away fans.
However, the chant of "Is there's a fire drill" gets sung every week at fans leaving early, so I'd like to think it was sung for those reasons alone and whilst maybe insensitive, was not meant to offend..... maybe they've never heard it before? Like the Palace fans who complained our "sh1t on the floor" chant at one of their players who was pretending to be injured was a racially motivated chant due to the players skin colour, rather than because he was sh1t
The city fan wasn't removed from the ground so if a racist mark had been said why didn't the stewards intervene. The only think city fans did wrong was the 3/4 bottles thrown on to the pitch which the ref removed and yes I expect a fine for that but I can't see your comments condemning the flares at the end and Reading fans goading city fans and pushing city players as they attempted to applaud the city Faithful. And one final point I gather you didn't hear the Reading chants regarding the city fire no I didn't think so Good Luck in the semis you will need it but don't play the racist card when your own set of fans sing about disasters where people lost life's complete moron you are
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It's standard practice at Reading to arrest fans at half time/throw them out for this kind of thing rather than eject them during the game and cause a kerfuffle. The same thing happened to some Reading fans a few weeks ago, however their crime was to swear and the club apologised. I saw the incident and something was definitely said that McCleary and the Linesman heard. The linesman then reported it to someone in the dugout and pointed at the offender. There's a photo on Twitter too, if you want to identify the culprit.
The bottle throwing - that did happen, then something smaller and harder was thrown at the ref as he picked them up, possibly a coin. I don't know if that was spotted on tv. Then when the idiots were on the pitch goading the Bradford fans they threw a few more bottles, sadly they missed the targets. If I had a bottle I myself might have tried throwing it at the idiot schoolkids taking selfies in front of the Bradford fans and police.
I didn't hear any chants about the Bradford City fire, I'm old enough to remember watching it and would not condone such a thing, However if it did happen report it and try and remember which area of the ground it came from.
