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Best fans in the League?

Submitted by Betty Swollox on Mon, 23/02/2015 - 10:35

After two back to back away games, I have to say how amazing we are as fans. We took over West Brom last weekend and sang our hearts out (well at least till the 4th goal and sending off). Yesterday we out sang and out supported at WHL, and I can't remember Spurs being quieter. I don't know if it came across on the box, but we just were a constant noise. There must be some poll to decide the best fans in the league? It would have to be a club that is mainly supported locally. I mean Man U or Liverpool taking 5000 to a southern ground is no mean feat as they all live in Guildford anyway. As for the game, we were fantastic and surely the Nolan penny has dropped!? The Cole substitution was bizarre and where I think Allardyce is so stubborn, is that he fills his bench with all the players we would probably get rid of, out of his loyalty to them. Forget the substitution for a minute, before the game he picked Cole, Nolan, Jarvis, Demel, Collins and JOB to potentially change a game. Really? Why no Poyet, , Lletget, Zarate or Lee? Surely some young fresh legs would've been better? If he could honestly release this obsession with trying to prove he's right about certain players, I think we could go far. Allardyce will never accept the fans and neither they with him, but if he keeps putting out a team like that to start, then I think people will bury their feelings and we could get more cracking performances like yesterday.

I salute you & our away support,wish i could go more myself...but tickets are normally sold out before the sale to academy members.Never mind im looking to go to the leicester game away!Watched the game yeterday & i loved the fact that all you could here was the hammers at shite hart lane!The points you make are very valid,& like you say if sam could just bite the bullet a little bit & actually listen to the fans,i dont think we would have a problem with him..

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as our fans often count as a twelth and thirteenth man, but read this morning that Kevin Kilbane has reported our fans to the FA for abuse against disabled fans. Apparently singing a song aimed at Kane saying "Harry Kane talks like a **** and plays like one too. Now reading the rest of the article it states KK has a child with Downs Syndrome and a friend at the game who's child also has the same, so I'm guessing the offensive word is mong. A truly disgusting word in the context it is used and a real let down to our fans. Aparently it was a sizeable majority singing it too.

This does not put the fans in a good light and if true then I'm ashamed of those fans. Along with racist and homophobic language it seems that football fans think everyone is fair game for verbal abuse and is a sad reflection on society today and where we are heading.
Hopefully it is just small minority and they are duly punished. Along with the anti semetic chants on the tube we've sunk lower than the Chelski scum in Paris recently if both are proven.
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That is pathetic, unfortunately it is all too common for a minority of Football fans to let their club down i have got used to being let down by them.
It is similar to a family there are always one or two who are annoying racist pathetic etc etc.

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My sister in-law has a child with Downs Syndrome and I don't think she would take it to kindly if she heard such chants. You can have good friendly banter between fans but there are certain lines you do not cross, no matter what club you come from and I would say it was a very very small minority of idiots. As you go through life you can never tell what will come to your door, then those idiots might have a different view.

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My sister in-law has a child with Downs Syndrome and I don't think she would take it to kindly if she heard such chants. You can have good friendly banter between fans but there are certain lines you do not cross, no matter what club you come from and I would say it was a very very small minority of idiots. As you go through life you can never tell what will come to your door, then those idiots might have a different view.

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Well said, Betty. More power to you guys who go to away games!

As to the inappropriate singing, cutting all such stuff out will be a long process, one in which all of us with younger family members have a part to play. Education and proper upbringing are the keys in my opinion.

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I think it goes a bit deeper than that Bully. These idiots that sing this trash are usually younger guys trying to be somebody. They're trying to create their own reputations. They probably spend most of the week living crap lives and when the get together in a group they all of a sudden feel important and above the law. We have in society a few generations where people and whole families haven't worked, so they don't have that same discipline to life, law their fellow man. The media and political landscape has also now beiged everything so you get these kids looking for something else. That's where extremism can appeal to them. If the muslim kids have got IS then maybe football is the answer for these predominantly Young white men? They're singing this stuff knowing it offends, probably hoping to get on SSN to gain some notoriety, all a bit said and pathetic really.

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Unfortunately a minority of our supporters (mainly young) are what can only be described as chavvy!Youve only got to go to barking station after a home game & theres lots of them about-had too much to drink & have too much mouth...many a time ive tutted to myself & my family...but i suppose most clubs have got em!

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