[Football] What was their response to the racists chant?

synavm said:

I was at the game earlier in the away section.

I must confess, I'm a local lad (Haywards Heath), been to lots of Brighton games, have a soft spot for them as a local team (but would stop short of calling myself a supporter) but am a Chelsea fan, been to hundreds of their games having been converted as a child by one Matthew Harding who used to live in Ditching and I suppose was a family acquaintance at one point.

The response was 'you'll never sing that'. Today I didn't hear any homophobic or racist chanting. The odd moron making the odd reference here and there but more or less I think 99.999% of the fanbase were very conscious of the language they were using.

Majority response to the incidents over the past week has been enough is enough. There are one or two regular chants that were really references to Spurs that I'd say were really sing out of ignorance rather than overt racism, then there are several other chants that you might hear in pubs that are categorically racist. I think the general consensus is phase out the whole lot, where as in the past the can has been kicked down the road. I expect lots of work from the club, from supporters trusts to try and educate the more ingorant folk in our midst before bringing in bans.

RE Brighton fans chanting about our racism, it's absolutely fair game. We got ourselves in the position we're in and Brighton are one of the clubs known to be especially proactive in welcoming diversity, so I wouldn't accuse Brighton fans of undermining anti-racism programs. If it were West Ham or someone there may be that accusation, but not Brighton.

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synavm said:

I was at the game earlier in the away section.

I must confess, I'm a local lad (Haywards Heath), been to lots of Brighton games, have a soft spot for them as a local team (but would stop short of calling myself a supporter) but am a Chelsea fan, been to hundreds of their games having been converted as a child by one Matthew Harding who used to live in Ditching and I suppose was a family acquaintance at one point.

The response was 'you'll never sing that'. Today I didn't hear any homophobic or racist chanting. The odd moron making the odd reference here and there but more or less I think 99.999% of the fanbase were very conscious of the language they were using.

Majority response to the incidents over the past week has been enough is enough. There are one or two regular chants that were really references to Spurs that I'd say were really sing out of ignorance rather than overt racism, then there are several other chants that you might hear in pubs that are categorically racist. I think the general consensus is phase out the whole lot, where as in the past the can has been kicked down the road. I expect lots of work from the club, from supporters trusts to try and educate the more ingorant folk in our midst before bringing in bans.

RE Brighton fans chanting about our racism, it's absolutely fair game. We got ourselves in the position we're in and Brighton are one of the clubs known to be especially proactive in welcoming diversity, so I wouldn't accuse Brighton fans of undermining anti-racism programs. If it were West Ham or someone there may be that accusation, but not Brighton.

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portlock seagull said:

Some on here also knew him and his family and still follow the Albion! Pathetic excuse, support your local team, but then we were shit back then, on life support, and instead of getting stuck in during the war years and helping out you desert for the glory team of the late 90s. No doubt in a different time you’d have been Leeds, Liverpool, United or Vichy French. You make us sick with your patronising ‘soft spot’. Ditchling you say? How much closer do you need to support your local side? Village Way? Take the train tomorrow to South London tomorrow morning and stay there. You’re barred. Banished. Offski. Exiled. Plastic. And there’s a war on plastics. Rightly so. Threatens our entire civilisation. That’s what Chelsea are. A threat to humanity. Attenborough said as much. Until the output of plastics ‘supporting’ top sides is cut, the future of the sport looks bleak. Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool all meet next week to discuss cutting plastic admissions by half. But it’s not nearly enough. Personally I’d like to see a ban on half and half scarves immediately and schools expelling kids wearing a non local team shirt until their parents come to their senses. ‘Soft spot’ for Brighton...the bleedin cheek when you’re from here!

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Blackadder said:

Fair play to you Synavm. Another Haywards Heath guy here (who supports the good guys . )

My impressions are that your points are correct.

Am I right in thinking, from a Premier league point of view, that Arsenal, Chelsea AND West Ham see Spurs as their main rivals/team to hate?

It used to just be the gooners.

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portlock seagull said:

Some on here also knew him and his family and still follow the Albion! Pathetic excuse, support your local team, but then we were shit back then, on life support, and instead of getting stuck in during the war years and helping out you desert for the glory team of the late 90s. No doubt in a different time you’d have been Leeds, Liverpool, United or Vichy French. You make us sick with your patronising ‘soft spot’. Ditchling you say? How much closer do you need to support your local side? Village Way? Take the train tomorrow to South London tomorrow morning and stay there. You’re barred. Banished. Offski. Exiled. Plastic. And there’s a war on plastics. Rightly so. Threatens our entire civilisation. That’s what Chelsea are. A threat to humanity. Attenborough said as much. Until the output of plastics ‘supporting’ top sides is cut, the future of the sport looks bleak. Utd, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Liverpool all meet next week to discuss cutting plastic admissions by half. But it’s not nearly enough. Personally I’d like to see a ban on half and half scarves immediately and schools expelling kids wearing a non local team shirt until their parents come to their senses. ‘Soft spot’ for Brighton...the bleedin cheek when you’re from here!

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synavm said:

Oh man, I thought I might attract some flack!

I do empathise with the support your local team thing, for certain and respect folk that follow that. I'd say how far do you go with it? My local professional team would be Crawley, but then there's Burgess Hill Town down the road etc. If we go for family connections it would be Leyton Orient..

I know your comment was somewhat tongue in cheek but I mean I was converted at like 3 or 4 years old and Chelsea were far from being a fashionable team down here at that point.

As you know, you can never change your team and as much as I've tried to get behind the Albion and Crawley, there just isn't that same emotional connection. All I can say is I've been to dozens upon dozens of local games, I signed all of the petitions in the latter stages of your fight for Falmer and I always get that little sense of anger when I drive past what used to be the Goldstone - so pretty much everything I can short of actually becoming a fan.

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synavm said:

Our main rivals I'd say (in order) are Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham, Leeds, Arsenal, QPR.

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synavm said:

Our main rivals I'd say (in order) are Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham, Leeds, Arsenal, QPR.

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zefarelly said:

Back on topic. . . . Standing in a taxi rank next to what used to be a train station, in a large crowd of mainly Chealski fans, waiting for conveyance to Falmer I heard nothing but bigoted homophobic racism, exactly as I expected. The only thing they didn't say (Yiddish) en Masse was clearly heard being yelled out individually more than once. A majority of the vitriol was directed at Spurs. I can only assume some of the Sun readers forgot exactly which game they were going too.

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synavm said:

Our main rivals I'd say (in order) are Spurs, Liverpool, West Ham, Leeds, Arsenal, QPR.

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Herr Tubthumper said:

I had a couple of Chelsea fans mocking my leather tote bag at the train station. Not to my face though. I caught them nudging one another and gesturing to themselves.

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Herr Tubthumper said:

I had a couple of Chelsea fans mocking my leather tote bag at the train station. Not to my face though. I caught them nudging one another and gesturing to themselves.

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