Homophobic Chanting.......

Applause? Are you some kind of bigot m8?
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What a barrel of laughs you are!

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I didn't hear anything either. However this has been fairly well reported recently around Brighton fans and something they've suffered.

I'm also all for banter. I think it's something that is very special about football. Comedy is often on the edge as well, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

But when something is hurtful to someone or another group, and it isn't funny. Well, it has no place in football. Like homophobic chats.

Everyone welcome at the king power, except those not willing to accept everyone else.

Enjoy the Prem Brighton 👍

Apparantly we're just a town full of pak*s too

I am upset by homophobic chanting.



If you decide that first sentence makes me look like a dweeb, you can understand why many people would just stand there and say nothing rather than speak out against it.

I wouldn't deny that some jokes along those lines can be funny, but that's not an excuse for all homophobia not to be treated as severely as racism in the terraces. Perspectives are changing, and neither is acceptable any more. anyone who fights against that will ultimately just get left behind.

Firstly, I must say, I think I've read in the build up to this game articles about the plight of Brighton fans with regard to this and perhaps therefore there is a bit of propaganda involved in terms of the next game (at the KP) being the limelight and therefore even a 'minority' being used as an example. However, I don't cringe with it being at out stadium as it provided us, as a club, the opportunity to act and denounce it.

The most worrying thing for me is opinions, already aired in this particular thread as well, that it is either 'sit in silence and be boring' or 'have banter' <ergo : be offensive> (paraphrasing here). Why can't there be any other option or in between.

Participating in homophobic chants is homophobic. There isn't an argument that it isn't. Sure, argue that society shouldn't deem it so, but we (society) have. One, if people are happy to class it as banter, they should be happy to say to their employers, friends, family, children - from a social perspective I am classed as a homophobic, bigot, racist, etc. But this will rarely happen because people who engage in this are often caught up in mob culture and therefore disassociate themselves from it in their 'real life' away from football.

Secondly, to those who think it is banter - imagine something that you would find really offensive, hurtful, over the top, etc to hear. That is how some people may feel who you are 'bantering' with. If you are someone who can not think of anything that would hurt you and cannot empathise with those recipients of such chants - fine, although you may be a sociopath, you at least, from a personal rather than social perspective, have a point or at least stance regarding freedom of speech and the fact nothing is personal. If you are someone who may be deeply hurt by something...simply stop.

This may sound patronising and like I am addressing children - and that's because I do address children, as a teacher, with a slightly watered down version of this rhetoric. The difference? Children are CHILDREN!

Ps - DM is correct. To those hanging on to the 'old days', times are changing: people will still go to the football, let some bad language slip, have a beer, shout, cheer, stand up and be told to sit down (sorry :/), but we are refusing to accept that 'racism, homophobia, xenophobia, etc is all part of this culture. It isn't. Evolve or eventually be the old man in the corner who thinks he is 'bantering pre-match' but is simply making everyone else feel uncomfortable.

Sitting opposite i heard it and thought here we go again but the Brighton fans responce nailed and stopped the chanting ..."your not good looking enough to be gay".
It like the the your just a town of P..... which as most of Asia's community is from India Gujerat specifically just shows they don't know nothing.

Take the mick out or City etc but not the people now must remember not to leave my car around the ground when Liverpool come.

She said "No" Ched....

To be fair, Leicester is an absolute sh1thole.