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What's this about Boro fans being homophobic on here?



Mr Bridger

Mr Bridger

Sound of the suburbs
Feb 25, 2013
4,458
Earth
Gingerphobes aswell apparently

 






M

mona

The Glory Game
Jul 9, 2003
5,470
High up on the South Downs.
Getting a bit like the old days with the fans having a punch up! On the day of the Bradford City fire, we finished a reasonably successful season at home to Sheffield United. At the final whistle the police marched into Hove Park or the station. There was a rather laid back pitch invasion by both sets of fans followed by a lot of brawling on the pitch. As it hadn't been a passionate match, it all seemed a bit incongruous. Seems to be a lot of falling out at the end of the season.

Must admit I now find all this name calling tedious whether it's tinpot plastic limp twisted southerners or northern inbreds.
Time to enjoy the summer. Up the Albion.
 


LamieRobertson

LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
46,853
SHOREHAM BY SEA
Bozza said:
I apologise for a lazy copy and paste, which is below, but someone asked the very same question the other day, here: http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?338813-Ethnic-Cleansing

One further thing though. I've been contacted by the police previously due to NSC carrying what could be considered sexually oriented hate speech. I don't have a budget to employ lawyers to make sure I'm in the clear so I take a "better safe than sorry" approach. When a Boro supporter was attempting to post homophobic abuse earlier this week, I contacted him to say that what he was posting could be considered hate speech and could get him into trouble. He cockily told me that his "modem has been modded so no one could trace me" and attempted to continue.

I'm not only trying to protect my arse, but the arses of those who post in a way that could cause them grief. Also, of course, there's a desire to maintain some level of decency. This is a football messageboard though, and robust conversation will happen. There will also be "banter" (and I hate that word). We try to leave everything in place we can, but sometimes we think stuff needs to go. We also favour Albion fans over any others and make no apologies for doing so. We still get grief from some long-term members that we are too lenient towards fans of other clubs. We can't win.

Anyway, that copy and paste:

It wasn't one bad egg in Boro, it was a fair few. But, as I've said before, I would guess that most of those we encountered on our way back from the Riverside to our car in the car park behind the Holiday Inn Express had been in the pubs and not at the game itself. Others I know who walked back to town had similar experiences.

There was also a coach load of Albion fans who had stayed at the Holiday Inn overnight and had to return to their coach there after the game. Boro fans didn't cover themselves with glory there either. I've been told both by fans on that coach and the coach operator that it all got very unpleasant with bottles thrown at the Albion fans. Decent, ordinary fans who just wanted to get on their coach, start their long journey home and leave the town of Middlesbrough to enjoy its achievement.

From there, NSC became flooded with abuse. With most of our moderators either in Middlesbrough or travelling home, it was difficult to manage. A lot was unpleasant. The way we are now moderating new users means abusive posts are hard deleted - they never appear - no one beyond the moderator involved sees them.

It wasn't just on NSC though. Twitter and Facebook have been used extensively as well. It probably reached a new low at the end of last week when the NSC page shared a poem written by [MENTION=528]attila[/MENTION]. As we headed to Hillsborough and the Leppings Lane End, the poem was about how all of us are lucky because we go to football and we get to come home again, unlike the poor 96. It was putting it all into perspective. Boro fans even used this as a vehicle to be abusive and homophobic, such as this:

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I would guess I've had to ban in excess of 100 Boro fans from the NSC Facebook page.

As I say, it has been quite extraordinary from my extensive experience.

I'm sure Boro has many thousands of thoroughly decent fans - we've had a couple on here. You do seem blessed with more than your fair share of the opposite unfortunately.
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What a well constructed post ..and I'm not sucking up to the master
 










Y

yorkshire seagull

New member
May 18, 2004
222
Leeds
SIMMO SAYS said:
Personally, I hope burreh / burnlee and the other lot of northern inbreds get their arses kicked next year:)
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Not that I particularly want to start disagreements between our own fans, but **** off with your anti-northern stereotyping. Not all Brighton fans live in the east sussex bubble....
 
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Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,435
Prince Monolulu said:
Was seated right next to the home fans at The Riverside in the East Stand, there were a few giving it the usual stuff we hear week in week out. Personally it doesn't worry me, in fact it gives me something to smile at.

Onwards and upwards.
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You can't use that catchphrase Somone else has it

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T

Turkey

Well-known member
Jul 4, 2003
15,568
Stato said:
I must admit to have found some 'Boro fans attitude to us patronising and inconsistent.

All the time they expected us to fall away there was a little pat on the head and a 'We'd rather it was you than Burnley.' In truth, their attitude was the same as the rest of us; first and foremost they wanted their team to get promoted. Everything else is a long way second. Nothing wrong with this, but why not just admit it?

Having decided that they were our big brothers and had our best interests at heart, they were then outraged when there was a controversial refereeing decision in an all or nothing game and, surprise surprise, Brighton fans didn't view it in the same way that they did. They went into attack mode at any suggestion that Ramirez may have had any culpability in swaying the referee's decision, as if this implied that their hard fought promotion was invalidated by another team feeling hard done by.

Since then there have been utterly bizarre accusations that, because fans were arguing on message boards, our club took the obvious step of appealing and Chris Hughton gave an honest response to a question about his view of the decision, that this meant that our squad wasn't focused on the play offs. This all being stirred up by a local journalist who writes like the worst of NSC's Albion myopic teenagers. Some have since taken our defeat at Hillsborough as evidence that our squad was too interested in them to beat Wednesday, ignoring the fact that Brighton's squad had been decimated by injury and suspension, had played two games with 10 men for long periods and were up against a team who were mostly having a lie down six days earlier.

They seem to take offence to the thought that Brighton supporters don't see the draw at their place and two goals over the season as evidence of their vast superiority, but instead still think that Brighton are the better team and things could have easily been different. The oft quoted Rice Davies quote occurs. We are Brighton fans. We would, wouldn't we?

In all of this, I have seen Brighton fans taking the pee out of Ramirez and annoyed by the referee, I have seen some dishing out Northern stereotypes and some just saying that the scars were too raw for us to have a reasonable exchange with them. This has led to a lot of them deciding that they liked us, but now hate us and hope we fail. Just admit, that, as we were the opposition this year, you always wanted us to fail. That's what the Burnley fans did, that's what Wednesday fans did.
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Tremendous post sir. Summed it up perfectly. The Boro newspaper is an absolute embarrassment to journalism and the Boro fans who so viciously exclaim their hate us really need to have a word with themselves.
 






Gazwag

Gazwag

5 millionth post poster
Mar 4, 2004
30,183
Bexhill-on-Sea
Not that bright on the maths department either keeping on about if they had only won 1-0 at the Amex we would have gone up on goals scored :facepalm:
 








Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,435
Ludensian Gull said:
So that makes it ok to slag off Albion fans who don't? Grow up mate and face the fact there are some lovely parts of the country north of Gatwick
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Yeah but Middlesbrough isn't one of them! We're slagging off dumps like that not the entire north, get with the programme!

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Ludensian Gull

Ludensian Gull

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2009
3,700
Thorpness Suffolk
SIMMO SAYS said:
banter you dipstick:)

I have a shed that I can rent out to you for £50.00 a week.
I do this as you are an Albion fan - I think.
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I am, and also live in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds but you wouldn't know about them would you as your in your own little bubble down on the south coast, which by the way also has some shitholes
 


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