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Originally Posted by Lord Didsbury
I'm sure there will be plenty of people with opinions on politicians and england football managers without ever being in Parliament or getting an England cap.
The fact is that i have witnessed with my own eyes the playing out of this misjudged tweet over the past few days and feel eminently qualified to comment on the fall out from it. It's not been a pretty sight.
I assume one of two things happened. Either monkey chants happened or the journalist concerned thought she heard monkey chants. There is a third possibility but actually very few people think she made it up willfully. That's not the point. The point is about what happened next.....
Once an allegation is made like this in public, with what looks like pretty stark and inciteful language, the damage to the reputation of Luton begins, and the anger rises. It doesn't take the benefit of hindsight to spot it coming....Sure enough, a Sun Journalist has waded in and twisted things around. A well known BBC journalist has retweeted and then made matters worse by robustly defending the initial tweet in a rather condescending manner.
When clearly shocked Luton fans have sought further information about what is alleged to have happened,they have been met with a wall of silence.
Over the past few days this has escalated as not one person has come forward to substantiate it. (Imagine if that happened in Accrington. Not one Stanley fan would come forward to decry racist chanting? Bloody hell, there was moaning on here for a rude word in a song a couple of years back). The demands for the complainant to give more information have fallen on deaf ears. Instead a mass blocking of Luton fans appears to have taken place.
In my opinion, in the absence of not tweeting it at all and simply letting police and stewards investigate, the next best course of action would be some olive branch to Luton fans? ....She's a journalist after all.
Andy Holt has tweeted about it this morning. It's a superb example of an olive branch.
Fair enough, there will be others who think all possible racist incidents should be tackled head on, and publicly, and without concern for the feelings and reputations of other parties. However, in this case I am completely behind the luton fans because of the manner in which this happened.... even if subsequently there is found to be substance in the allegations.
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Of course you are entitled to your opinion on whatever happened/didn't happen with regards to the abuse allegations but you've got the wrong end of the stick with regard to your original post - what some of us questioned was how you managed to have such an informed opinion about a game you hadn't seen.
I suspect all your bluff & bluster about the other matter is just a smokescreen because you don't have an answer to the actual questions