Terry Price's knee wrote:
Totally agree PP. Having said that I was at the Newcastle game and was completely unaware of any abuse so it must have been a very tiny (both in number and brain size) minority. Hopefully won't ever be repeated, and we all stick to abusing refs for just being crap!
Given what you say about not hearing it, and the club being unaware, it must have been a small isolated case we would hope.
It does make me feel sad that our club has had negative press over something so stupid. I know I run the risk of being labelled a woke liberal, but I am genuinely baffled as to why anyone would even care, much less shout abuse, about someone's sexuality. I believe James Child is in a longstanding relationship, and there's precious little happiness in the world so bloody good luck to him. Maybe the chant should have been "I don't see why you should get any joy out of life, because I don't".
Anyway this article and what I witnessed against Whitehaven does beg the question of whether our stewards are "neither use nor ornament" as my mum would say. They struggled to get to grips with the flare incident, and reading this article they seemed oblivious to the homophobia and what to do about it.
