Whose Fault Was It for The Crowd Trouble at Eastlands?
By: Rob | September 14th, 2009
There you have the much-watched highlights of Manchester City’s game against Arsenal at the weekend. As you will have seen, City won 4-2, thanks to an eventful day from ex-Gooner Adebayour, who scored, set one up, stamped on Robin Van Persie’s face, and sprinted the full length of the pitch to celebrate a goal in front of his former supporters.
Its the last thing I want to talk about. First off, I’m not defending Adebayour, it was an absolutely moronic thing to do (and incidentally , I was kicked out of my Under 10s School Football Team once for doing something similar) and he really should have been thinking a touch clearer than that.
But really, football supporters are grown men as well. I can understand you would be disgusted at Adebayour for the way he acted, but was it really nessicarry to create such a kerfuffle that a steward left the ground injured? Just as Adebayour lost his self control and acted stupidly, so, surely did the Arsenal support?
While it does not excuse Adebayour particularly, he was treated to the expected rounds of horrendous abuse all the way through the match. While this seems to have become part of the game when a player leaves you to play for someone else – is it really worth it? So he left to go and get a bigger paycheck, do you have to spend the next 90 minutes yelling obscenities at him?
And do you have to be surprised when he reacts afterwards? The stamp on Van Persie was inexcusable, but I think despite the stupidity of running all that way to celebrate in front of the away fans, its not really that surprising.
When we’re thinking of punishment from Adebayour – the guessing game everyone’s playing – we should be concentrating on the stamp to be honest. That was horrendous.
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rob
its a well known fact that ade n arsenal fan had a sour relation even b4 the weekend clash
i could clearly hear some racist chant from the crowd
had i been in ade boot i would have done the same thing or something even worse
but the stomp on rvp is totally uncalled for that shud not escape from the awful fa attentionPosted from
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The fans should also face some attention for the Racist chant then.
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