Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,184
This appears to be the mother of all non-stories, one guy with a grudge and nothing anywhere else to back it up.
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Lewis Dunk - Disabled Fans?
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Seagull over Canaryland
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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.
What do you actually think your comment added to this debate, seriously?
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.
If that had happened to anyone now, they'd have sued them (probably rightly!).
Wally Goulds right toe
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- May 27, 2014
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You're middle name's not lucky is it?
Seagull Steve
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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
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- Dec 31, 2011
- 7,356
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
The great escape
- Feb 6, 2006
- 10,896
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
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Recall nobby horton knocking a notts county fan out his wheelchair during pre match warm up,he did apologies though!
Randsta
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Does being inbreed count as a disability
T.G
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Whinemore Shite!!!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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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
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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.