Saturday - May 16, 2009

Supporters guilty of ‘disgusting’ homophobic football chants. I do not look for this stuff …

It may look like I do but really I don’t.  These things crop up at eye level and are pretty hard to resist.

I read the article and thought, so what?  But I guess one must take into account the current PC, touchy feely attitude where feelings are concerned.

Hey, I am not saying it’s nice or even right to go out and hurt people’s feelings. But come on. It’s a football match and if someone is known for a lifestyle that is, to say the least, at odds with the norm, well heck.  That’s how some people feel about it and making fun and hurtful jibes can’t be avoided.
Besides, aren’t these folks always having parades telling us all how proud they are to be what they are? 

Anyway, when I started to read this I really expected to find much worse then what is actually here.
I guess it’s seen differently though if one is on the receiving end of the chants. 

Still, what a screwed up bunch of wankers the prosecutors are.  So this one broad who probably looks like the back end of a hippo says,
“bad taste, they were inappropriate, shocking and disgusting” speaking about some of the words used. BUT ... there isn’t anything about this pair that says they were using the more extreme language.  Here, you’ll see what what I’m talking about.
But watch out for really very shocking and disgusting and oh it’s just too awful .... 

A man and a boy were found guilty today of shouting ‘shocking and disgusting’ homophobic chants at a football match.

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:22 AM on 16th May 2009

Ian Trow, 42, of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and the 14-year-old had pleaded not guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court to the charge of indecent chanting.

The charges relate to chants made at Portsmouth Football Club defender Sol Campbell during a match against Tottenham Hotspur at Fratton Park, Portsmouth, on September 28 last year.

After a three-hour trial, Georgette Holbrook, chairwoman of the panel, found the two defendants had chanted ‘Come on gay boy, that’s my gay boy’.

She said: ‘We find that the words used were in extremely bad taste, they were inappropriate, shocking and disgusting, and as such they were indecent.’

Sophie Stevens, prosecuting, said: ‘The police and members of the public considered there was significant abuse from the travelling Tottenham supporters, abuse above what is perhaps wrongly accepted at a football match.’

The magistrates were shown a DVD of footage recorded by police showing Tottenham fans at the match.

Angie Cunningham, defending, said the video footage was examined by a professional lip reader who said the youth, who was 13 at the time, could be seen pointing and shouting: ‘Come on gay boy, that’s my gay boy.’

She added that Trow could only be seen saying the words: ‘Come on, that’s my gay’.

But the magistrates ruled that Trow had said the same words as the boy.

Ms Cunningham said it could not be assumed that the two defendants joined in other chants heard at the match.

She added: ‘They passionately and whole-heartedly believed their behaviour and language didn’t overstep the mark of what is acceptable behaviour and language at a football match.’

Portsmouth footballer Sol Campbell said he did not react to the abuse for fear of making the situation worse

The video footage also showed other chants which were shouted by up to 2,500 fans, including: ‘Sol, Sol, wherever you may be, Not long now until lunacy, We won’t give a f*** if you are hanging from a tree, You are a Judas c*** with HIV’, ‘Campbell you are a c***’ and ‘Sol’s a w*****.’

In a statement read to the court, Campbell said he felt ‘victimised’ and ‘disgusted’ by the chanting.

He said: ‘I felt absolutely disgusted at this and I didn’t react because of my profile and I feared I might make the situation worse and cause problems.

‘I felt totally victimised and helpless by the abuse I received on this day.

‘It has had an effect on me personally and I do not want it to continue. I support the police in their action.’

Following the match, Hampshire Police released images of 16 people wanted in connection with the chants.

A total of 11 were arrested and four men pleaded guilty to the offence in January and were sentenced to a three-year football banning order and a fine.

Three men and two 15-year-old boys have been given police cautions, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

While cases of racist chanting have been prosecuted before, this was the first case of indecent chanting to be brought to the courts, the CPS said.

Both Trow and the 14-year-old boy were banned from attending football matches for three years.

Trow was fined £500 and ordered to pay £400 costs and £15 to a victim surcharge fund.

The 14-year-old was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £400 costs.

Miss Cunningham said both defendants intended to appeal against the conviction.

Nick Hawkins, Hampshire Chief Crown Prosecutor and CPS national lead on football issues, said: ‘I am pleased we have secured convictions and admissions of guilt from all 11 people we charged in connection with this unsavoury incident.

‘The magistrates’ decision show ordinary people applying common sense are disgusted with the kind of things that went on at Fratton Park last September and reflect the views of ordinary football fans across England and Wales.’

Posted by peiper     on 05/16/2009 at 01:25 PM   
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