Let me just clear up a few things.
Neville wasn't punched. It was a fabrication (as per) based on a nothing incident.
I saw the whole thing from the bottom right hand corner of the Kop.
Neville was getting stick as you would expect and he was getting a bit carried away but holding his temper. Then he took a throw in by a group of fans and backed onto this lads hands. The lad made did push out at him but that was all it was, a reflex reaction after having his hands wedged between neville and the hoardings.
I wolf whistled at the incident because it was no more than handbags.
Then cue
Everton's P.R department saying Neville was punched and watch the puppets dance again.
Yakubu wasn't racially abused he was compared to local offender about whom all information can be found here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Aki
Not the nicest thing in the world but not racially motivated. Before someone says it was because aki is black, does that mean because I get called Crouch sometimes for being white and tall that it is racist? It's not a nice thing to say and despite my guilt chuckle the first time I heard it I don't approve of it but what the kop sang to Yakubu was not racist.
I heard absolutely nothing about Carsley or his kids, not one thing all game. I have since spoken to people dotted all around Anfield for this game who heard nothing of the kind either. Make of that what you will.
I felt most sorry for Lescott as he actually turned round (possibly in disbelief) to see what the Kop were chanting about him. "Joleen Lescott, the elephant man". Again anyone would like to tell me what is racist about that then i'm all ears.
It is not classy, it is certainly not what we know as the
Liverpool way but you have to understand that the abuse we have not responded to at Goodison has been going on for many a year. We've been provoked by
Everton fans. Out of the interest of respect to any good
Evertonians I will not name them unless provoked, the only such incident I will touch on to make a point is Steven Gerrard.
Gerrard was hounded at Goodison for years as you would expect, he didn't help himself by flying in their face when he scored. However for the last couple of years he has been subject to chants of "the baby's not yours".
My point is that
Everton are laughable for trying to take the high ground and the media jumping all over this and trying to make it out to be big bad
Liverpool are as predictable as ever. Not once was the abuse of Steven Gerrard reported in the way a few nasty but none racial songs and the light contact of Neville has been.
Double standards yet again and once again those that believe everything in print lap it up and wait for their next anti scouse meal.
Here is a thought, perhaps the reaction
Everton got the other week was down to what we have been getting every visit from and to them since the mid 80's, perhaps it was so newsworthy for
Liverpool because it was so uncharacteristic of
Liverpool supporters as a whole.
Nah that couldn't be it. Scouse Scum.
Oh and I wonder why this story never made a national newspaper:
Exclusive by Philip Kirkbride, the Skelmersdale Advertiser
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A Dream trip to the quarter-finals of the Champions League quickly turned into a nightmare for a young football team from Skelmersdale.
The Arriva Youth under-15s had won a once-in-a-lifetime prize of free tickets to watch Liverpool’s clash with Arsenal last night (Wednesday).
But the evening soon turned sour when they were unceremoniously ejected from the Emirates Stadium.
Bizarrely seated amongst the hard-core element of Arsenal supporters, the football-mad youngsters were victims of a torrent of abuse from adult Gunner supporters.
As proud Liverpool fans, the under-15s celebrated Dirk Kuyt’s 26th minute equaliser, but they were soon turfed out.
Arsenal stewards escorted the boys, and the three adults accompanying them, from their seats and out of the ground.
Stranded outside in unfamiliar surroundings, the children and their guardians went looking for answers but were refused entry back into the stadium.
Ray Radford, manager of the U-15s, was furious at the way his team had been treated and demanded that his shocked players get back in to watch the game.
He said: "We were having a great day until Liverpool scored. We were seated smack bang in the lion’s den and were abused by grown men - men in suits.
"These weren’t louts. They started shouting at the lads as soon as they realised we were Scousers.
"They started shouting about Michael Shields and Heysel - it was pandemonium.
"After we’d celebrated Kuyt’s goal, we were spoken to by the stewards and told to leave the ground.
"Even though I explained to him that the lads were guests of UEFA, because of the competition win, they still chucked us out."
Left stricken outside the ground the lads, wearing special UEFA tracksuits given to them as prize winners, continued to be hurled with abuse from passing footy yobs.
Radford eventually managed to get hold of a female UEFA official but he says she was of little help.
Ray added: "The female UEFA official said we weren’t allowed back in the ground and just left us there.
"We eventually walked round to a part of the stadium we recognised and managed to talk to the UEFA project manager, a guy called Simon Calder.
"He apologised for what had happened saying it was 'unacceptable, appalling and totally unprofessional'.
"But he said that Arsenal were not going to allow us back in the ground.
"We were eventually granted access back to our mini-bus but were not allowed to leave the ground until 11pm.
"By this stage, the lads were very anxious, quiet and very, very scared.
"They were stressed and because we weren’t allowed back in the ground, we missed the rest of the game."
The Advertiser spoke to Ollie Tritton but he declined to comment. UEFA official Simon Calder was unavailable for comment. |
....... fans always shout stuff at the opposition, and so long as it's not racist then I really don't see the problem .
