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Club Statement on Discriminatory Abuse

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  • DA9 said:
    Swisdom said:
    Maccn05 said:
    Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    I don’t think that him being ejected is the only issue of course he’s embarrassed to have been wrongly accused of being a racist …but the issue with the club is they put out the false statement saying he’d been arrested that upped the interest level then some idiot posted a picture of him.

    I believe he wants a apology from the club for the printing of incorrect information that has damaged his reputation.
    99.99% of people have forgotten about it to get on with their lives.  This guy seems intent on making something out of it.
    I don’t really see what the club did wrong - it’s the person who put it on social media who is in the wrong.
    until he started going off on Twitter I had no idea who he was and can’t say I cared but his insistence on getting an apology is what’s keeping it on the public eye! He had had a call from the head of communication who has apologised for what happened but now that apparently isn’t enough.  
    Where does it stop?
    Very easy statement and approach to take when it’s not you it involves
    As has been said - what negative outcome is there?  Most people don’t really care in the grand scheme of things and the only person keeping this in the public eye is Nic himself.  if anything he’ll be better known for being a turd that won’t flush than the original incident (that was caused by another fan and NOT the club)


  • The negative is being ejected from the ground for a start.
    That was a (wrong) decision taken by somebody somewhere.
    Surely whatever followed flowed from the ejection?
    As I said yesterday, two free season tickets for next season might smooth things over, even help on the level of somebody saying ‘if I was a wrong ‘un, which I wasn’t, how come the club gave me two free season tickets then?!!’.

  • Swisdom said:
    DA9 said:
    Swisdom said:
    Maccn05 said:
    Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    I don’t think that him being ejected is the only issue of course he’s embarrassed to have been wrongly accused of being a racist …but the issue with the club is they put out the false statement saying he’d been arrested that upped the interest level then some idiot posted a picture of him.

    I believe he wants a apology from the club for the printing of incorrect information that has damaged his reputation.
    99.99% of people have forgotten about it to get on with their lives.  This guy seems intent on making something out of it.
    I don’t really see what the club did wrong - it’s the person who put it on social media who is in the wrong.
    until he started going off on Twitter I had no idea who he was and can’t say I cared but his insistence on getting an apology is what’s keeping it on the public eye! He had had a call from the head of communication who has apologised for what happened but now that apparently isn’t enough.  
    Where does it stop?
    Very easy statement and approach to take when it’s not you it involves
    As has been said - what negative outcome is there?  Most people don’t really care in the grand scheme of things and the only person keeping this in the public eye is Nic himself.  if anything he’ll be better known for being a turd that won’t flush than the original incident (that was caused by another fan and NOT the club)


    Mud sticks, reputation, Chinese whispers, with your professional links to the club would you be as happy to be the person incorrectly identified, ejected and humiliated in front of your son and others around you at the time, would you dismiss it as a simple error and move on?
    Staff paid by the club made the decision to remove him, they are responsible for that error, we don’t know what was said by TR to him, but clearly Nic was unhappy with it and has stated he felt he was treated with a blasé attitude.
  • DA9DA9
    edited April 2022
    DA9 said:
    Swisdom said:
    Maccn05 said:
    Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    I don’t think that him being ejected is the only issue of course he’s embarrassed to have been wrongly accused of being a racist …but the issue with the club is they put out the false statement saying he’d been arrested that upped the interest level then some idiot posted a picture of him.

    I believe he wants a apology from the club for the printing of incorrect information that has damaged his reputation.
    99.99% of people have forgotten about it to get on with their lives.  This guy seems intent on making something out of it.
    I don’t really see what the club did wrong - it’s the person who put it on social media who is in the wrong.
    until he started going off on Twitter I had no idea who he was and can’t say I cared but his insistence on getting an apology is what’s keeping it on the public eye! He had had a call from the head of communication who has apologised for what happened but now that apparently isn’t enough.  
    Where does it stop?
    Very easy statement and approach to take when it’s not you it involves
    What’s the damage then?
    Has he lost his job?  Has he lost friends?  His season ticket?  I mean if he has it’s a disgrace and im with the poor the guy, but like I said earlier no one thinks he’s racist, everyone thinks he’s the guy who got wrongly accused of it, so what damage has been done?
    I’m not happy to live in a world where people can be accused of racism or any other ‘ism, only for it to all be ok and told to move on because it’s not true, sorry we made an error, please shut up about our mistake,  they owe him a full apology to his satisfaction whether privately or public. 
  • DA9 said:
    DA9 said:
    Swisdom said:
    Maccn05 said:
    Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    I don’t think that him being ejected is the only issue of course he’s embarrassed to have been wrongly accused of being a racist …but the issue with the club is they put out the false statement saying he’d been arrested that upped the interest level then some idiot posted a picture of him.

    I believe he wants a apology from the club for the printing of incorrect information that has damaged his reputation.
    99.99% of people have forgotten about it to get on with their lives.  This guy seems intent on making something out of it.
    I don’t really see what the club did wrong - it’s the person who put it on social media who is in the wrong.
    until he started going off on Twitter I had no idea who he was and can’t say I cared but his insistence on getting an apology is what’s keeping it on the public eye! He had had a call from the head of communication who has apologised for what happened but now that apparently isn’t enough.  
    Where does it stop?
    Very easy statement and approach to take when it’s not you it involves
    What’s the damage then?
    Has he lost his job?  Has he lost friends?  His season ticket?  I mean if he has it’s a disgrace and im with the poor the guy, but like I said earlier no one thinks he’s racist, everyone thinks he’s the guy who got wrongly accused of it, so what damage has been done?
    I’m not happy to live in a world where people can be accused of racism or any other ‘ism, only for it to all be ok and told to move on because it’s not true, sorry we made an error, please shut up about our mistake,  they owe him a full apology to his satisfaction whether privately or public. 
    I’d agree if they named and shamed him incorrectly.  They didn’t, they said someone was arrested, then said no one was arrested.  Like I said what damage has been done??
    The embarrassment of being turfed out in front of thousands of people. The social media abuse he got won't be easy to just forget.

    An apology from the goalkeeper who wrongly accused him wouldn't go amiss either.
    Okay, that’s reasonable I guess, I’m not trying to argue with anyone here by the way just wondering what more he thinks should be done, if it was me I’d want it forgotten because I don’t think the club is as fault personally,  but each to their own.  
  • I don't know how the keeper could be expected to be 100% sure who was abusing him, seeing as he had his back to the crowd and should have been concentrating on the pitch in front of him.
    Everyone would have been better served if he'd waited until after the game, then taken it to his manager.
    His manager could then have taken it to the Ref who in turn could have informed the Football League who could have worked with Charlton to identify and punish the true offender.
    We are going down an impossible path if games get stopped for 10 minutes every time a player receives abuse from the crowd.
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  • Off_it said:
    Cloudworm said:
    When you live as a minority, it’s different. If you’re called an English xxxx in England, it doesn’t really impact. When you’re the only one, or one of a few, it cuts a bit deeper. For me, prejudice based on nationality is as bad as any other form. Anything we don’t choose, shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat us with.
    You see that's where, in my view, this type of argument falls down.

    You cant say theres one rule for one and another rule for another. It's not equitable. It's either wrong to mention someones nationality or it's not.

    Saying it's alright to be called an "English xxxx" in England, presumably by someone who's not English, is absolute bullshit. You either shouldn't bring nationality into it or else surely every nationality is fair game?
    Off_it said:
    Cloudworm said:
    When you live as a minority, it’s different. If you’re called an English xxxx in England, it doesn’t really impact. When you’re the only one, or one of a few, it cuts a bit deeper. For me, prejudice based on nationality is as bad as any other form. Anything we don’t choose, shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat us with.
    You see that's where, in my view, this type of argument falls down.

    You cant say theres one rule for one and another rule for another. It's not equitable. It's either wrong to mention someones nationality or it's not.

    Saying it's alright to be called an "English xxxx" in England, presumably by someone who's not English, is absolute bullshit. You either shouldn't bring nationality into it or else surely every nationality is fair game?
    I didn't read it as Cloudworm saying it was in any way OK- in any situation. 

    The point seemed to be that while an English person in England may feel like it's no big deal to be called an English **** in England and so feel there is no big deal re: this issue, the feeling is different when you are in a minority.  

    When I've lived abroad, I would have felt it if somebody had involved my nationality as part of an insult against me. As such, I can empathise with minorities living here who then have their nationalities used against them. It's prejudice and discrimination and its not OK.

    What's curious to me is why there are people here - and elsewhere -  who wish to defend such comments. Why is that?
    Exactly the point I was making. Thanks.
  • Off_it said:
    Cloudworm said:
    When you live as a minority, it’s different. If you’re called an English xxxx in England, it doesn’t really impact. When you’re the only one, or one of a few, it cuts a bit deeper. For me, prejudice based on nationality is as bad as any other form. Anything we don’t choose, shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat us with.
    You see that's where, in my view, this type of argument falls down.

    You cant say theres one rule for one and another rule for another. It's not equitable. It's either wrong to mention someones nationality or it's not.

    Saying it's alright to be called an "English xxxx" in England, presumably by someone who's not English, is absolute bullshit. You either shouldn't bring nationality into it or else surely every nationality is fair game?
    I agree. It’s complete double standards and his argument is dismissed immediately. There are numerous areas in England where English people will be in the minority. By his theory, being called an English xxxx in these areas is ok and doesn’t have any impact. Absolute nonsense.
    Aren't you actually backing up what Cloudworm is saying IE it cuts deeper when you in the minority.  He's not saying, as I read it, that that makes it OK as he goes on the say.

    "
    For me, prejudice based on nationality is as bad as any other form. Anything we don’t choose, shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat us with."

    I'm not sure what we do choose should be a stick either but that's another debate.




    Not imo mate. He says that if your English and called a xxxx it doesn’t impact. Then goes on to say that prejudice based on nationality is as bad as any other form. The two statements contradict each other. I assume that he has badly worded the first statement as I think the second statement outweighs the first. 
    The point was really a response to people questioning the validity of the goalkeeper’s reaction. I was thinking of the victim’s perspective. I’m not saying it’s ok to do it in any context. I’m just pointing out that when you’re on the receiving end of such abuse, context does affect how you feel about it. When you’re in the minority, it feels worse.
  • Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
  • edited April 2022
    RoanRedNY said:
    blame twitter, it’s a shit stain on society just like facemeta.combook and that other one with the dancing and people dying all over the shop trying to juggle petrol with a candle on their head or jumping the Grand Canyon on an electric roller skate.  

    The social media world* is an oxymoron. It’s anti social. It attracts the sort people waiting to be angered or outraged with a level of stupidity that does raise serious doubts about the level of humanity’s gene pool.

    then blame the guy who thought outing the wrongly accused was the thing to do, why isn’t that criminal or actionable, liable is?

    then blame the shits that posted crap at this innocent guy without any facts - just outrage and anger all bottled up sitting behind their keyboards - disgraceful

    then blame the actual racist and the people around him that watched the wrong guy get ejected and didn’t identify this arsehole

    then blame the stewards and the coppers, mrs hall from 41 high street and anyone else in the interweb sphere.  

    Oh and don’t forget to blame the club

    *he said without irony on social media
    It is what you make it. For example I have an account just for following news and info about pro cycling. I also have an account for Jimmy Seed’s sister Minnie, and have had learned some useful info about her through the account. Never see anything unpleasant on either account. Hopefully never will. 
  • I wasn't there and I'm pretty sure I know who did it. Anyway I'm off to the Alan Curbishley next season. You never know when a goalie's gonna flout the union and point the finger at you ;) 
  • seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
  • thenewbie said:
    seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
    You have a point, and what I like about it is the term ‘consider themselves’.
    I had the experience you describe at the start of your post, but don’t consider myself to be English.

  • There's always the 'British' option. Personally, I prefer English by a small margin, but it's all a much of a muchness. Try putting something else on official forms and see how far it gets you. The powers that be like is to Identify within a very limited strata. My failures at being recognised as a European, Citizen of the World and Essex Boy are testament to that.
  • Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    When a hate speech type incident has been brought to the referee's attention and they stop the game, they are not allowed to restart the game until the stadium manager/responsible official has been informed of the alleged transgression.
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  • edited April 2022
    seth plum said:
    thenewbie said:
    seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
    You have a point, and what I like about it is the term ‘consider themselves’.
    I had the experience you describe at the start of your post, but don’t consider myself to be English.

    Go on then, I'll bite. What do you consider yourself to be?
  • Billy_Mix said:
    Chunes said:
    If the referee refused to restart the game until he was removed, I don't see what else the club were supposed to do. 
    When a hate speech type incident has been brought to the referee's attention and they stop the game, they are not allowed to restart the game until the stadium manager/responsible official has been informed of the alleged transgression.
    Which is different to not restarting the game until the alleged offenders are removed 
  • seth plum said:
    Croydon said:
    seth plum said:
    thenewbie said:
    seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
    You have a point, and what I like about it is the term ‘consider themselves’.
    I had the experience you describe at the start of your post, but don’t consider myself to be English.

    Go on then, I'll bite. What do you consider yourself to be?
    For good or ill I consider myself to be me.
    Nationality is only a technical consideration in order to live within the rules one is born into.
    Although I appreciate we live in an era of self-identification above all, 'English' as a noun refers to the people of England so if you live here, you are English :) 
  • Vfrf said:
    seth plum said:
    Croydon said:
    seth plum said:
    thenewbie said:
    seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
    You have a point, and what I like about it is the term ‘consider themselves’.
    I had the experience you describe at the start of your post, but don’t consider myself to be English.

    Go on then, I'll bite. What do you consider yourself to be?
    For good or ill I consider myself to be me.
    Nationality is only a technical consideration in order to live within the rules one is born into.
    Although I appreciate we live in an era of self-identification above all, 'English' as a noun refers to the people of England so if you live here, you are English :) 
    English as a noun refers to a language.
  • seth plum said:
    Vfrf said:
    seth plum said:
    Croydon said:
    seth plum said:
    thenewbie said:
    seth plum said:
    Surely a person is only ‘English’ if for whatever reason they choose to call themselves ‘English’.
    Babies are not born with ‘made in England’ stamped on their bum.
    Someone born and raised in England, speaking English, is very unlikely to consider themselves as something other than English. Certainly the chances are higher than our hypothetical baby one day waking up and deciding he is French. 

    Obviously it is possible that if our hypothetical child is raised by parents from another culture he could identify with that as well.
    You have a point, and what I like about it is the term ‘consider themselves’.
    I had the experience you describe at the start of your post, but don’t consider myself to be English.

    Go on then, I'll bite. What do you consider yourself to be?
    For good or ill I consider myself to be me.
    Nationality is only a technical consideration in order to live within the rules one is born into.
    Although I appreciate we live in an era of self-identification above all, 'English' as a noun refers to the people of England so if you live here, you are English :) 
    English as a noun refers to a language.
    The adjective refers to the language, the noun refers to the people.  
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