Albion Rob
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My morning has just been enlivened slightly by one of the most subjective pieces of journalism I have ever seen which basically suggests the Den on Saturday was a cauldren of racial hatred.
Basically, the Sun sent Raymond Enisuoh, sports editor of New Nation, to the game on Saturday and he has now contributed a page which will make very uncomfortable reading for Lions fans.
I'll gloss over the fact that he says: "Millwall outsung the small section of visiting fans." because I don't know whether his is blind and deaf so it would be unfair to pass comment but I never saw or heard a lot of what else he said happened.
First he claims that sections of their fans were chanting "Sieg Heil" and giving the salutes - I never saw that. His next claim is that the Millwall fans unfurled a racist banner halfway through the second half - now, unless it was written on a piece of A4 paper and held up , I find that quite unlikely because I think that out of almost 1,500 Albion fans there, someone would have spotted it and passed comment.
Throughout the piece he mentions the amount of aggro, and objects, hurled at the black stewards, again, nothingwas visible from the away end and you would expect some sort of commotion, even if it was just the police going over to film whoever it was.
To this guy's 'credit' he doesn't mention the only arrest made in the stafium that day, which appers to have been in the Brighton end but he does say Barry Hayles was booed off because he was black - to be honest I felt most of the booing was coming from our end.
However, the 'piece de resistence' comes when he says before the game he was warned by an elderly man not to walk through a certain housing estate as he got off the train at Surrey Quays station. Well, I'm glad there is plenty of quanitfiable evidence of this becasue I would hate the thought that Millwall could just turn round and say: "Well, we dispute this ever happened and what does walking through a nearby estate have to do with Millwall Football Club."
Overall, I can't understand it when people write things like this. It just seems to do more harm than good for their casue. To be honest, were it not for the fact there is a picture of the guy in the ground, I would dispute the siggestion he had even been there on Saturday.
Basically, the Sun sent Raymond Enisuoh, sports editor of New Nation, to the game on Saturday and he has now contributed a page which will make very uncomfortable reading for Lions fans.
I'll gloss over the fact that he says: "Millwall outsung the small section of visiting fans." because I don't know whether his is blind and deaf so it would be unfair to pass comment but I never saw or heard a lot of what else he said happened.
First he claims that sections of their fans were chanting "Sieg Heil" and giving the salutes - I never saw that. His next claim is that the Millwall fans unfurled a racist banner halfway through the second half - now, unless it was written on a piece of A4 paper and held up , I find that quite unlikely because I think that out of almost 1,500 Albion fans there, someone would have spotted it and passed comment.
Throughout the piece he mentions the amount of aggro, and objects, hurled at the black stewards, again, nothingwas visible from the away end and you would expect some sort of commotion, even if it was just the police going over to film whoever it was.
To this guy's 'credit' he doesn't mention the only arrest made in the stafium that day, which appers to have been in the Brighton end but he does say Barry Hayles was booed off because he was black - to be honest I felt most of the booing was coming from our end.
However, the 'piece de resistence' comes when he says before the game he was warned by an elderly man not to walk through a certain housing estate as he got off the train at Surrey Quays station. Well, I'm glad there is plenty of quanitfiable evidence of this becasue I would hate the thought that Millwall could just turn round and say: "Well, we dispute this ever happened and what does walking through a nearby estate have to do with Millwall Football Club."
Overall, I can't understand it when people write things like this. It just seems to do more harm than good for their casue. To be honest, were it not for the fact there is a picture of the guy in the ground, I would dispute the siggestion he had even been there on Saturday.
This bloke should be banned from reporting! Or even attending football matches.