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Did you see it?

Did loveable Rio simply celebrate a goal with United fans, or 'give it the biggin' to the City fans...tugging his shirt and badge?

Got a nice coin in mush by the looks of it.

Any views?

If my assumptions are correct then the 'fan' is looking a a life ban and laughing boy Rio should get a match(es) ban and meaningless fine for crowd incitement.

Sorry, are you suggesting the two "offences" are comparable?

I presume Rooney was inciting the crowd earlier in the half by trying to take a corner.

After all he was pelted with coins, showed one of the to the ref & was told to just get on with it.

As for Ferdinand, he is a cock but in his defence he was celebrating in front of the Man Utd fans.

It wan't quite in the Adebayor class of running the length of the field to celebrate in front of the opposition fans.

Seriously a match ban for celebrating a goal? This is why I'm going off football, it's all taken way too seriously. Football's just a game, it was a goal, a last minute goal, in a local derby, a local derby that's key to the championship race. Yeah thinking about it maybe Rio should have quietly applauded his teammates's goal whilst offer his condolences to those unlucky plucky City supporters.

The main surprise is that anyone had a coin inside the Man City end. I thought it was strictly notes for them these days.

I was asking if he did it in front of City fans....I honestly didn't know.

Sky not showing any of it. Bastards. I pay 50 quid a month

I also wanted to see what was happening when the United players were rushing back towards the City end, bloody Sky!

I honestly thought that Ferdinand had poked himself in the eye celebrating at first. Then I saw the stewards and fans having a pointing contest. Then the blood.

No excuse for it from a fans point of view. Lifetime ban.

I may (or may not - depending if the TE lawyers are about) have hit a referee on the head with a very well thrown toilet roll v Blackpool a few years ago. Toilet roll taken to the bench I completely shat myself.

Half of me is disgusted, half of me thinks good shot. But, erm, there is no excuse, yadda yadda.

Talking of shitting their self at a game, Ginge (whose name I forget) made a bet in a pub one night he'd go in the disabled enclosure and at a certain minute would spring from his wheelchair, naked, and run on the pitch. And fair play he did it, but didn't evade plod. Then spent two weeks shitting it that he wouldn't be allowed to go on his already paid for Euro championships tour with his dad.

Should'a kept some back...

No excuse for the fan throwing the coin, but players are pretty much allowed to get away with murder on the pitch and get nothing more than a slap on the wrists. They know they are untouchable and do whatever the fuck they want.

A player 'giving it large" to the opposing fans is obviously going to wind them up and is asking for trouble. If they did the same thing to someone outside of a football ground and got knocked out as a result I think a lot of people would say they had provoked the attack.

To be fair I wasnt aiming for him, just lobbed the roll and next thing everyones congratulating me on a good shot, whilst i tried to deny it was me. Luckily some bloke a few rows back decided to run on the pitch diverting all attention on him.

* Allegedly  ;)

 

Hahaha. Its a bit of teasing on the players part. Why people want to then throw coins or attack them is pathetic. Goading from players and fans shouldn't be discouraged as it adds to the whole thing. Fans going overboard is their problem and theirs only and of course if they break the law then come down on them.

Agree with Arriba. Used to love opposition players goading us, then we have the last laugh, or have to wait for next time around. John Aldridge a particular favourite.

Well said Arriba.

Though it winds me up when fans have given stick, swearing and god knows what else to a player, then when the player gives some back they cry off to the nearest steward.

Nice to see Rio on the X Factor this evening, sporting a nice cut above his left eye!

So Rio Ferdinand had a 2p piece thrown at him...

He's not the first black man to be caught by a copper.      

I remember chucking a sausage roll at steve phillips when we played rovers away a few years ago. I was pretty hammered and I felt great for about a week after

Aldridge, what's the score? Aldridge, Aldridge what's the score? :)

Danny Mills on 5 live just now slagging Paolo off for his actions last year at Oxford and comparing a pre-meditated action 'dancing on the pitch' v Rio's snap celebration.

I'm not the only one then. The whole ever increasing media frenzies (racism, JT, anything footballers say or do) and constant outrage over all of this, by pretty much everyone, is making me disillusioned. It no longer seems to be about sport, it's simply politics, money and the new craze of canned outrage.

I think I've only seen us play once in the last 4 home games. All the bollocks that now surrounds football is not something I care for or give a fuck about and it's causing me to realise I want no part in the constant drama. It's a fucking game and it should be about fun and the highs and lows, not the agendas of those who care not for the game.

Did we get into strife for the bottle that was chucked at agbonlahor from the town end during the cup game?

No place for any of this in football.  Man city looking at footage but that many coins were thrown it can't be easy to identify qho threw the one which hit Ferdinand.  Unless they go for everyone caught throwing a coin, which they won't.

I'm the same, but find it is only really an issue with the Premier League. The Football League still seems to be about the right things. Can't stand watching Match of the Day anymore, just makes me angry especially with the constant blaming the referee for everything that goes wrong.

It always got the crowd going...
Who was the Bolton player that wound us right up?

John fucking McGinlay

There are going to be a lot of us that agree with this.  Love the club, but there a parts of the game that I want nothing to do with.  Swindon fan first, football fan a distant second...for me.  Not black & white exactly, but that's the way I'm feeling more & more, I think.

That's the fella.. Brill times