MJ27 Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Just a little something that bothered me walking to the ground. A lot of our fans started singing 'Harry Roberts is our friend, is our friend, is our friend, Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers. He lines them up two by two, two by two etc etc. It is a pretty disgusting chant to be honest. Hard working policemen, walking us to the ground, and fans sing about being friends with a man famous for murdering policemen. Ie murdering people who work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair. Why would we sing about wanting to kill people - taking it a bit far maybe... Could we cut this out?
FuriousFox46 Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Just a little something that bothered me walking to the ground. A lot of our fans started singing 'Harry Roberts is our friend, is our friend, is our friend, Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers. He lines them up two by two, two by two etc etc. It is a pretty disgusting chant to be honest. Hard working policemen, walking us to the ground, and fans sing about being friends with a man famous for murdering policemen. Ie murdering people who work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair. Why would we sing about wanting to kill people - taking it a bit far maybe... Could we cut this out? I never understood these chants.
LCFC BEAST Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Just a little something that bothered me walking to the ground. A lot of our fans started singing 'Harry Roberts is our friend, is our friend, is our friend, Harry Roberts is our friend, he kills coppers. He lines them up two by two, two by two etc etc. It is a pretty disgusting chant to be honest. Hard working policemen, walking us to the ground, and fans sing about being friends with a man famous for murdering policemen. Ie murdering people who work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair. Why would we sing about wanting to kill people - taking it a bit far maybe... Could we cut this out? It is a horrid chant seeing as even just last week they were the people putting their neck on the line to save our cities!
Burmesefox Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 it's kids isnt it who sing that...you know the really thick ones who are 15 and have stopped going to school?
Larry_LCFC Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Thought the Brian Clough chants were a bit cringey too.
Guest Bilo Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Most of those singing that song wouldn't know Harry Roberts if he jumped out of the bushes and tickled their bollocks, not least because he was killing coppers a good couple of decades before they were born. Childish little scrotes in the main. Brian Clough chants? Offensive and in bad taste but if Forest fans try to claim the moral high ground because of them when some of the very few songs they bothered singing were racist, they deserve nothing but derision.
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Unfortunately plenty of football fans are both thick and sheep like and half the time have no idea what they are singing or what it might mean, it's just words to music, it's the same type that sing you're just a town full of............ All clubs seem to have them.
Guest MarshallForEngland Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Not everybody believes that policemen 'work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair' and so on. In fact it seems clear that not all policemen do share these basic tenets. Why should your own blinkered view of policemen and biases towards the way they do their job be forced onto other people?
Benji Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Not everybody believes that policemen 'work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair' and so on. In fact it seems clear that not all policemen do share these basic tenets. Why should your own blinkered view of policemen and biases towards the way they do their job be forced onto other people?
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Not everybody believes that policemen 'work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair' and so on. In fact it seems clear that not all policemen do share these basic tenets. Why should your own blinkered view of policemen and biases towards the way they do their job be forced onto other people? Even if that is true does it warrant singing a song about shooting them?
Jagdinho Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 You say the police were good? I know two 16 year old lads who got thrown out by a copper for standing up, 15 minutes in to the game.
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 You say the police were good? I know two 16 year old lads who got thrown out by a copper for standing up, 15 minutes in to the game. So if you had a gun you'd shoot them? Where there even coppers in the ground?
Benji Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 So if you had a gun you'd shoot them? Where there even coppers in the ground? Resist all temptation to be of sound mind.
Jagdinho Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 So if you had a gun you'd shoot them? Where there even coppers in the ground? Never said id shoot them, but anyone who says the police were 'good' yesterday must of been mad or not sat near me. Throwing people out for standing up, when the whole end was doing it?
somebum Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Not everybody believes that policemen 'work hard, have got a good job, and are generally fair' and so on. In fact it seems clear that not all policemen do share these basic tenets. Why should your own blinkered view of policemen and biases towards the way they do their job be forced onto other people? Here here very well said but careful mate the way things are going any criticism of the police state will land you time inside
Fox92 Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Some people take it way too far. Football should be about talking to opposition fans in the pub or outside the ground, and then going in the ground to support your team.
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Here here very well said but careful mate the way things are going any criticism of the police state will land you time inside There's nothing wrong with criticising them and that's not what this topic is about, read the first post it's about whether LCFC fans should be singing a song and therefore glorifying someone shooting policemen.
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Never said id shoot them, but anyone who says the police were 'good' yesterday must of been mad or not sat near me. Throwing people out for standing up, when the whole end was doing it? I'll ask again where they policemen or stewards because I never saw any in the ground, a few overly officious security guys yes.
Corky Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 It's a needless chant that paints us in a bad light. We'd criticise other sets of fans for doing it so we should do so when our own join in.
somebum Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 There's nothing wrong with criticising them and that's not what this topic is about, read the first post it's about whether LCFC fans should be singing a song and therefore glorifying someone shooting policemen. You will notice that I quoted MarshallForEngland in my post, henceforth replying a point he made, not necessarily the point made by the original poster.
Jagdinho Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Well reflective jacket, a black stick with a handle and a bowl on his head with a silver nipple on top person then. The police could of been downstairs, and the stewards called one up? Only one officer came to kick them out though. Not complaining myself, i just can't see why they feel the need to kick them out for standing when everyone else was!
somebum Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 I'll ask again where they policemen or stewards because I never saw any in the ground, a few overly officious security guys yes. Yes yes but this is about whether LCFC fans should be singing a song and therefore glorifying someone shooting policemen
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 You will notice that I quoted MarshallForEngland in my post, henceforth replying a point he made, not necessarily the point made by the original poster. Yes and his post was a random out of context post in reply to no one in particular and your post just continued what was clearly a subject irrelevant to the OP . So my reply to you was still valid. If you want to start a topic on the rights and wrongs or the license to criticise the police feel free to do so.
davieG Posted 21 August 2011 Posted 21 August 2011 Yes yes but this is about whether LCFC fans should be singing a song and therefore glorifying someone shooting policemen Well of course it is and that's why I'm trying to clarify a, whether they where policemen causing him concern and b, if they were would he be prepared to shoot them. So please stop being obtuse and argumentative I know your reputation for being WUM and I'm not interested in playing your game.
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