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http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/4677393.BREAKING_NEWS__Amankwaah_apologises_to_Harris/

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What a reception he'll get at the den...

He's donated to the cancer charity too!!!!  :eek:

Ah, I see someone already posted a link in another thread.

Beat newsmonkey to it tho.

Did he really though? Or is it just the club's way of trying to quieten down this bit of bad press? I personally think it's probably the latter.

He must have done!! Come on get real, there's no way he would apologise if he hadn't done it! I reckon Wilson (or at least someone involved in STFC) has gone absolutely apeshit about this.

did what exactly?

amankwaah said yesterday they swapped abuse
harris claimed he took offense to something amankwaah said
amankwaah has apologised for any offense caued

only the media have mentioned cancer. no direct quotes from the players involved mention balls, bollocks or cancer.

Dave have you actually read what I posted and that latest link?

Amankwaah has gone back on his previous stance of it was just usual verbals, issued an apology and actually donated to a fucking cancer charity!

what a farce, morons on thisis calling for amankwaah to be sacked despite nobody (except harris and amankwaah obviously) having a clue what was said.

thats thisis for you youth!

I had to shut the page as it was making me feel ill

I dont remember people being this full of poison when say for example - Jamie Vincent beat up his wife??

fuck me, talk about people making a mountain out of a mole hill, how many times have we heard "you've only got one ball" to whats his face.

ok, its not nice laughing at an illness like cancer but imo its being blown out of proportion.

calling for AF/DW to sack kev is rediculous

i retract my previous message after reading the official site:

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1824201,00.html

looks as if he did make a remark about harris' testicular cancer. i hope he feels like a twat now.

jfw's right too, the club never took any action against ady williams and jamie vincent when they were charged with assault (both found guilty if i recall?)

then again, we have a convicted killer playing in the league below.

Yeah nobody has a clue Harris either misheard him or made it up then has taken it this far cos he was just being a cunt then Amankwaah admitted to something he didn't do and gave some money away validating all this just to keep it quiet?!?! How stupid does that sound.

Anyone still doubting if he said it needs to take a reality check. Seriously.

EDIT: Sonic Youth you took back the post I was referring to so I removed the quote. But my point still stands. It happened. That much is certain now.

We haven't heard what Harris said in return yet have we ? Amankwaah certainly seemed to want to keep the argument going, rather than Harris.

you missed my point (well, both of them)

the mongoloids on thisis are reacting as if amankwaah had surgically removed harris' remaining bollock and forcefed it to him not that he made a tasteless comment which he clearly had.

i doubt harris is entirely innocent in all this, he must have said something to provoke the reaction as kev certainly doesn't seem the type to make remarks like that out of the blue.

Wasn't there an incident with someone beating their partner and they were made to leave the club after an STFC players dinner recently?

My memory is rubbish.

Unfair I think. Vincent was released pretty much immediately after (admittedly he may have been anyway, but only DW/AF will know that) and Williams left following the conclusion of the Court case.

I wonder what sort of racial abuse and cyber-threats are going down on the millwall forum now its all 100% confirmed?

Do I want to look? I sort of do. For the drama...

Aside from not renewing their contracts, no nothing at all. Somehow though, in the current market I think they would rather have been fined/reprimanded and given new contracts...

It happened, it's done, now get over it...  Any talk of sacking is ridiculous - it's handbags at 40 paces that been blown up into a Politcally Correct cage fight...  If the Boo Hoo Boys of Millwall want to carry on crying over it let them get on with it...

Exactly. Yeah it was him I was remembered.

I meant abuse from fans not what action was taken by the club anyway

true. perhaps it was unfair of me to say that considering i haven't got a clue what went on, only rumour posted on here.

the fact does remain that there's a convicted killer playing for notts county and nobody seems that bothered.

As soon as he was found guilty he was out the door wasn't he? Wonder if there was even an adver story for people to leave angry comments on.

But yeah blatantly Vincent battering his girl was worse than what Amankwaah did and I'm glad he was kicked out.

Anyone got that millwall forum thread link from earlier? I can't find it. They're blatently foaming at the mouth.

There was, but they were sensible enough to disable comments for fear of libel (I wish they'd do that permanently). Does anyone know if Vincent was ever charged? Can't find anything on the internet post the arrest.

i'm not saying what he said didn't cross the line but i'm glad we've got people who will give a bit of lip back without going to the 4/5 round a ref like cunty teams do.

Vincents missus was quite fit too iirc.

Amankwaah is a silly boy, but ho hum.

Screw Millwall.

verbal abuse is part and parcel of football at every level.
amankwaa overstepped the mark by taking the piss out of cancer,and then denying it.but we all know player comments are bollocks as they tell people what they want to hear.
he's made himdself look a complete twat and that should be punishment enough.
my lad has been told he will be shanked by a player at academy level.footballers need to be thick skinned end of.

http://www.independentmillwall.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=94452

There's another thread about it and a couple extra posts on their original thread. They are saying if he plays he will get it in their end of season pitch invasion. I thought they would have worked themselves up a bit more really.

Tbh I doubt Wilson would play him given the circumstances, what do other people think?

As i said earlier, fuck millwall.

As for saying he will 'get it' during the pitch invasion, thats genius that is!

i don't think a pitch invasion considering the magical scenes of upton park will be in order do you?

Im sure Kevin, a 6 foot plus well built extremely fit young man, will be petrified the sort of sarf london hoolie retard who writes that sort of thing on forums.  I suspect he may be able to handle himself and if necessary out run a football fan.

I think it's been blown out of all proportion and only hope Amankwaah continues to play the way he's been playing for us this season so far, and doesn't let something like this bother him. I also hope he doesn't read what the learned Thisis readers have to say on the matter and think they're speaking for the rest of us.

I'm sure worse things have been said, even in cricket.

Blown out of all proportion....matey has obviously called him a prick or something and he's said yeah mate not a problem but i'm a prick with two balls. Not exactly the Anti-Christ is he?

Sensible measures made by the club to try and put an end to this quickly. Amankwaah is currently enjoying his best spell at this club and I hope this doesn't effect his game.

Can somebody tell me what it says, I can't read past the first post. That signature is just too mesmerising.

Drop one of our best players this season for a bit of verbal banter?

The whole thing is ridiculous.  Harris would have been better addressing his grievance either the club, Amankwaah or even the FA if he felt that strongly about it rather than giving comment to the press.

Daft comment for Amankwaah to make but then we don’t know what prompted that comment in the first place.  At least Amankwaah has stood up and apologised without making further comment, which will hopefully put the whole thing to rest.

I dread to even click on those links.  I can understand Millwall fans feeling aggrieved for Harris especially as he’s come through such a shit situation with them.  You’ll always get a few keyboard warriors giving it large but talk of sacking the player is just fucking loonacy.

Feelings for the individual (Harris) aside**, the more I read their forums the more I think "Good on ya Kev".

Really, what a bunch of ungracious dicks.

** I still think that he (Harris) made a meal of it.

 I agree with your first remark arriba but I think you've missed a point. We don't actually know if he did take 'the piss out of cancer' or whether it was just a reference to having one bollock. There is a difference, one is fair banter in my book, the other is not.

In a spicy tomato sauce no doubt!

I’ll get me coat and crash helmet……….

And that photo in the adver.....

I know that he is called 'big Kev', but unless Harris is a bit of a midget, Kev looks fooking mahoosive.

They'll be 6th. We'll be 7th. Big Kev will score the winner lifting us into the play offs at their expense.

Wonder if we'll hear anything from Easton in his adver column... Being a big supporter of Everyman and all...

I'm still a bit shruggy shoulder on this whole incident to be honest.  I'd still doubt very much that Kev had the time to produce a coherent knock against Cancer as a disease, and it's way more likely a response to Harris going along the line of "show some fucking balls".  I hope Kev's got the character to play at Millwall, and does well, should make for a tasty game if they continue to stay rabid in the Isle of Dogs until then.

I find it really hard to believe that any footballer, let alone Amankwaah, would bottle it and not play in a game due to some opposing fans saying they're going for him at the end of the game. If there was a credible risk he'd have plenty of protection at the final whistle and the ref would make sure he was right next to the tunnel (or the protection) before he blew.

Plus there is no way Millwall would let anything happen. Following the West Ham incident, Millwall would be well and truly fucked if he got attacked at the end of the game. How long would their ground be closed for if their fans attacked an opposing player who is black?

I think it was wrong and if one their had said it to one of ours I think you'd all be saying it was wrong too.

He shouldn't have said it. It might have been in the heat of the moment but that doesn't make it not bad does it?

It makes me think a bit less of Amankwaah but yeah I don't think it'll affect his form and I hope he keeps playing well. Personally I think it was fair enough for Harris to call him on it via the press and Amankwaah admitted he'd said it and he issued an apology or he did promted by the club or the club did. Anyway yeah draw a line under it and move on.

Yeah not saying it is likely he actually would get attacked but you would have to admit the likelihood of a sustained level of intense abuse is very likely with racial abuse also very likely and coin throwing a possibility.

Dropped a bollock

well,what a palava!

I guess you hate most football songs as well?

What gets me is that no more than 30 seconds before it happened there was a particularly nasty tackle on JPM, which fortunately didn't do any damage but very easily could have. Amankwaah says something which wasn't nice and everyone is going off on one about it, but not a single word is said about that tackle.

It seems that players can do what the fuck they want physically on the pitch and its all part of the game. But if they open their mouth and say something bad its unacceptable. Pretty damn stupid if you ask me.

I don't think the issue is that concerning tbh. At the moment we still don't know what he said but clearly it was something that was probably out of order. At least he has now admitted it.

Think you have got me a bit wrong actually. I'm all up for aggro and abuse. Whatever. I don't wanna sanitise the game. Just if I knew someone had actually battled cancer and had a testical removed I wouldn't think it was OK to go there or the same as calling someone a cunt or a peado.

Not really. If someone was physically aggresive to me I wouldn't take that the same way as them picking on a personal issue to wind me up. Unless they like properly fucked me up. Not just a bad tackle. It's not the same imo.

At this stage only 2 people know what was actually said. We can guess but we don't know - nor do the Millwall fans who have a burning cross ready for Big Kev.
Who said what first - nobody knows apart from Harris and Big Kev.
If Big Kev was in the wrong then he's apologised and made a donation to the relevant charity. Its up to Harris whether he accepts this apology or not. If he does then everyone can move on and Big Kev will have to run the gauntlet whenever we play them.
All this talk of sacking him is totally OTT.

I think Amankwah has been outstanding this season......hes apologised and for me ide like to think that publicly Harris will accept it as a heat of the moment thing.....as for the Millwall fans fuck them...alot of them are total morons and how they get away with there forums amazes me.....like i said ide have alot of respect for Harris if he just accepted the matter was in the heat of the moment.

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Where's TCP93 when you need him? One phone call and BAM!

Well I originally thought it was a bit naughty but having read the Milwall forum Id like to wind them up a bit so I suggest everyone who is going to the Millwall away game should take 1 long baloon attatched to a normal round baloon,a stand full of willy and one ball baloons.. and whistle Hitlers only got 1 ball all day.

he called him Womble - that's just so vicious

my bad, there's a thread in the news  :)

Lets hope this doesnt affect his performances because hes been quality this year imo

Now he is claiming he was racially abused.

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4679663.BREAKING_NEWS__Town_allege__racial_and_physical_abuse__against_Amankwaah/

Its getting silly now. If he got racially abused, and it was Harris that did it, then its 6 of one half a dozen of the t'other. Neither should happen really, but its all water under the bridge now.

This is what Harris has to say about the whole issue:

http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10367~1825459,00.html (http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10367~1825459,00.html)

I think this could run on a bit...

Not sure, but Amankwaah doesn't neccessarily state that the racial abuse was from Harris, or indeed any Milwall player, does he? Could easily have been some berk in the crowd.

Look at what Harris has written across his t-shirt in the pic of him on this link  :clap: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What on earth gave you that idea :)

Of all the jibes and teams Kev had to pick a player to squabble with it had to be Millwall player who had survived cancer... This could run right up until our visit to the New Den depending on how the press/internet fall out goes.

As if Harris is going to admit he said anything racial. if he did he'd be right out the door and be punished big time by the F.A. This is a farce, the FA should just throw millwall out of football,it would stop anything like this happening...they know it makes sense :nod: - Not for the club being what it is,but for the fans...who will believe anything harris says with total disregard for the football environment that exists these days in terms of abuse & bahaviour of players on and off the pitch.

If that wasn't political type spin speech from Harris i dont know what is. Doesn't say anything really, certainly not that he didn't say anything derogatory from what i can see.

To be fair, this is exactly why what gets said on the field should stay on the field.

Its a pretty trump card played by Kev there. Tommorow's Millwall statement, 'Amankwaah threatened to knee cap my Grannie'. ????

Has it overshadowed the Douglas appeal? Doesnt seem like that was taken seriously at all?

That Millwall forum thread does have someone stating they were shouting 'only here for asylum' at Amankwaah. Not sure if the guy is on a wind up or what.

Ive lost alot of respect for Harris.....Amankwah has apologised,donated money to charity...dosnt matter whos right or wrong really....he could draw a line under it all...but no,hes milking it.

:D

Its very wrong, but that bit made me laugh

doubt it

http://www.independentmillwall.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=94467

See that inbred from Bassett is on there again....bet he didnt even go on Saturday.

He was probably at a 7th birthday party or something

So we're all going to believe that big Kev was racially abused (Despite him lying about the bollock jibe already) and millwall fans are going to believe Harris.

What a pathetic story: some football players were verbally nasty to each other.

Boo fucking hoo.

http://www.swindon.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=173638

Sorry if your bored of it...good write up though...Grab those pitchforks.

Don't listen to any thing that numpty says.

I'm with Hertha, it's quite laughable what a saga this has turned into.  Should never have left the pitch.  Christ, even at College 3rd's level shit like this went on.

I won't be happy until the News Of The World publishes a word-for-word play of what happened and a Neil Harris "My Struggle" story :)

Complete with customary newspaper diagrams explaining the removal of a testicle in words of no more than 6 letters.

Imagine if this was a story from the Premiership!?!

This is really bad press for the club and I imagine Fitton and company are not amused.

If Kev was a Prem player he'd have been on TV by now, visiting a local cancer ward and drumming up awareness.

And presumably Harris would be 'spotted' out and about in bermondsey (as if any of them live there) wearing a 'kick it out' t-shirt.

This story now has its own separate page on digital teletext (ceefax). Slow football news day?

I can't remember the last time I looked at ceefax. Do you still have to type in page numbers?

You can, or you can go the slow way and press 'select' on the topics.. I still use the digital equivalent of ceefax. Saves getting up and booting the PC/laptop.

I can't believe this is still dragging on and looks like it will only get bigger with other media picking up the story.

Amankwaah was obviously a twat for what he said during the game, and even if he had a good reason to deny the claims at first it was a bad decision to do so. Harris hasn't done himself any favours with his response to Amankwaah's latest statement about the racial abuse, even if his account is correct he could have been diplomatic about it.

Why couldn't Harris have just issued a public acceptance of Amankwaah's apology? It would all be over and done with by now if he had, instead he seems to have made it worse. It looks probable Amankwaah was referring, in part at least, to racial chants from the Millwall fans - the last thing Millwall need at the moment is to be brought up on racial charges.

Here's hoping someone will see sense and get them to shake hands, make up and put this firmly in the past.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/4680144.Amankwaah_bust_up_takes_new_twist_with_claims_of__racial_abuse_/

Harris tried to bite my nose !!!!!

This is fucking comedy gold !!!

I don't think any player would play the race card if thwere wasn't an element of truth obviously Harris is not going to admit to this, all hell would break loose if he did, but I think it is obvious that one responded to the other's jibe, whoever is right or wrong, whoever said what, now is the time to draw a line under it all and get on with playing football......until the 2 teams meet again.

 

Manky was clearly upset by something, as it was him who wouldn't let it go and tried to carry on the argument - not normally what you would expect if it had been him who started the name calling.

He normally seems such a calm guy that I personally believe Harris must have said something to touch a nerve. If you were Harris, would you admit to your Millwall faithful that you were sorry for abusing a black bloke.

Whatever, a pro footballer should be able to ignore any verbals that come their way during a game.

That is definitely true, I could hear that from the opposite corner of the ground, though that was after the second red card. Maybe it was happening before aswell but not as loud.

The problem for Amankwaah is that he has now had three different versions of his story. Even if the latest one is the gospel truth, it doesnt look like it because of his initial denials.

I still don't get this.
I imagine that it went something like Harris insulting Amankwaah including a mention of the colour of his skin, prompting a retort about one bollock.
Depending on what was actually said both comments could be contrued as factually correct, &/ or insulting.
However whilst it is generally accepted that the Harris type of alleged comment is racist in nature, I don't know what the problem is with Amankwaah's type of comment. It's not as if Harris has not recovered, he has. In actual fact he also is very public about the illness he had, & is shown on that release on the Millwall site in a t shirt saying "keep your eye on the ball" (singular).
Banter & taking the piss is what happens on the football field. The only reason that this is blown up out of all proportion is because a section of the Millwall fans are a bunch of racist thugs even if Harris isn't.

Snot funny.

I hope this is put to bed now, its getting very very silly.

Seems like they're both in the wrong, but neither club is being well-served by having it all out in public like this. Like Rob says, what goes on on the pitch should stay there, does no-one any favours to have a public slanging match like this. They should both grow up and shut up.

Maybe I am being biased, but it does seem as though Amankwaah was happy at first to let it all go but Harris took it all public.

It'd be interesting to see if this 'footage' does show Harris trying to bite Amankwaah's nose. That'll put a different spin on things.

I think the PFA should get involved, get these two in the room and sort it out as the longer it continues, the worse it gets for both players and teams.

Thats one of the best turns of phrase I have read on here, good work!

But both players have to be willing though - seems the FA & PFA are involved now

Why don't they get the UN and Mr Obama involved as well.  Isn't this all a bit over the top?

FFS, they should both just grow a pair

:D Nice one Paul.

Harris, has only got one ball,
the other, is in the Albert Hall.......

Town fans (and players and FA Disciplinary Committee) duped by Millwall's dark arts.

As we look to draw a line under this, I for one will happily chip in for some media training for Kevin A.

Though if Wilson lets him say more than two words to the press for the remainder of the season, I'll be amazed.

Amakwaah is a complete fucking kunt for saying this. I doubt very much Harris, with plentiful black players in the ranks of his squad as well as that were fielded by Millwall on the day, would make some racial slur, very much doubt it indeed.

 As a Swindon fan I am disgusted by this, couldn't give a damm if this wanker never plays for us again. Cynical playing of the race card caps it all off, for fucks sake!  >:(

Lothar....ime not going to swear at you cos your German....oh bollocks to it..fuck off!

Edit the bollocks.

Lothar you are a cunt. You are guessing whats been said - unless you've got inside you know fuck all. If we take it at its suggested worst then fuck them both. They're adults. Whether what was said was right or wrong they're both grown up and its words. I've been called all sorts- I couldn't give a fuck.
Manky was been manipulated big style by the media who want a story regardless of the facts.

so any footballer who has ever made a racist remark has only said it whilst playing for a team full of white players? what a fucking ridiculous thing to say, you would be suprised how many racist remarks are said every week in all the footballing leagues. A former swindon manager would say racist remarks to his black players most days whist managing here. Once he even wrote on a kick racism out of football t-shirt 'except for that black cunt ........................' and wrote one of our players names on it

:twat:

Big Ron was busy during his very brief stay with us.

And would you're feelings be the same if he scored the winner that got us promotion ? Im sorry this kinda stuff has gone on for years,we all say things in the heat of the moment,i know i have at times but for christ sake it's part and parcel of the game these days like it or not.

Sticks and stones and that malarkey and harris is a grown man now,if harris cant handle this kinda stick then he should be playing bowl's or something and you aint telling me harris has never said something to wind players up in a game.

Wrong for big kev to say it yes,but for fucks sake talking about going overboard and i think the cuthbert statement is a hint that millwall tried dirty tricks of some kind whether it be verbal nobody knows.

i think amankwaah has dropped a bollock on this one.

Don't give up the day job, yooooof.

what day job?

:D

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