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Footballers' human rights are 'violated'

ENGLAND footballer Sol Campbell has hit out at foul-mouthed football fans, claiming they are breaching players human rights.

OOMAN RIGHTS

20.12.07, 4:26pm

22 BAGS OF WIND KICKING ANOTHER ROUND THE FIELD BREECHES MY OOMAN RIGHTS
STOP WINGEING YOU OVERPAID UNDER PERFORMING GIRLS BLOUSE

• Posted by: Mickle • Report Comment

OOOOH YOU POOR THING

20.12.07, 2:26pm

Football supporters are a passionate breed, who want only the best for thier team and are willing to pay high ticket prices to watch thier beloved team.
You turned your back on them and so feel betrayed, but i bet you thought they were great when they were paying for your flash car and expensive lifestyle.
If such people didn't exist i can only imagine you wouldn't get paid anyway near what you were on.
Personally, i think most footballers are a buch of overpaid, spoilt, nansey boys.
and so thank you for confirming that belief.

• Posted by: Silverback • Report Comment

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STICKS AND STONES

20.12.07, 12:48pm

Look Sol you are past your best mate and you have lots of cash so stop your whining and put it into perspective.

You are getting paid a fortune here so if you are getting irritated by a few nasty comments why don't you move abroad go try Italy or Yugoslavia or Russia they have nicer fans!

• Posted by: CMcInall1 • Report Comment

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GET THAT DAMN CHIP OF YOUR SHOULDER!

20.12.07, 10:06am

You put yourself in front of thousands of fans for money and you must expect some abuse from the occasional cretins what about poor porky the linesman accused of eating all the pies where are his human rights.

If you don't like the atmosphere in the football grounds take up bowls I believe they have a much better natured less enthusiastic following!

• Posted by: The_Way_I_See_It • Report Comment

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FOOTBALLERS' HUMAN RIGHTS ARE 'VIOLATED'

20.12.07, 8:24am

Oh, boo hoo.!

It's also their 'human right' to refuse to play in front of a crowd - but then I guess they wouldn't be paid their obscene wages?

I've said for ages, that TV companies should flatly refuse to televise football for a season. The FA would then be in NO POSITION to dictate the ridiculous amounts that have to be paid for the dubious 'privilege'. Even better, would be if no-one turned up to watch games for a season!. That would ensure that ticket prices would have to be reduced, thereby benefiting fans.

• Posted by: BoggyDepot • Report Comment

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MORONIC FANS

19.12.07, 11:52pm

Sorry to say but the abuse footballers get from the fans is just a sad reflections of society. A lot of these people use the same sort of language in the home to their children. You only have to go to the supermarket and the youth of today are using the same language as they walk round shopping. But sadly it is not just the youth who use this language.
I was watching Man United play in an away match and Ryan Giggis went to take a corner and there in the crowd next to the pitch was a woman in her mid 40's and she was giving him the finger for no reason.
But you only have to here the chants of a lot of teams and it is disgusting language and as shown on TV in front of children. One of the worst lot of supporters is Man United for obscene and abusive chants, god help any player who had the misfortune to play for liverpool in his career. I by the way am a United supporter and find it a total waste of breath to shout at the opposition, just don't ssee the point, as it has never stopped the other team playing, more likely to gee the up.
Only one manager has ever stood up to the fans and that was the late Brian CLough whotold the Forest supporters that if they did not stop he would leave the club and guess what they stopped.
The managers can bleat all they like about the abuse they get from behind the dugout but until they sort their own clubs out then i do not have any sympathy.
Also why do the camera's always zoom in on a player when he is angry because a decision has gong against him or the bench when some has not gone the was of the team.
Also I used to play to a good standard and yes when things done go your way I have been known to swear, it is only natural, but I never gave the refferee the abuse that the proffesional give out the the officials.
The last time I looked at the Laws of the game abusive language directed at any other player or official was a red card offence and until the refferee's start dealing with it then it will and has got worse. So as a previous comment made the players have got to start to show an example to the children who watch the game live or on TV, as the behavior they show has got right donw to schools football and sunday football so much so that there used to be thousands of games on a weekend but it has nearly died out because refferee's will not stand the abuse so give up, and then the leagues find they can't recruit anymore so the game is dying out.

• Posted by: KEEF • Report Comment

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HUMAN RIGHTS! FOR WHOM!

19.12.07, 7:25pm

You have to earn respect in order to gain respect. I'm afraid many of today's footballers are just like the hooligans who shout obscenities from the stands! Perhaps if they set a better example to the crowds the paying public would retaliate in kind. As far as racist or homophobic remarks are concerned, most of us have to put up with that in our everyday lives, be we black, brown, or white, but we just get on with it. In other words, if you don't like the heat some of you spoiled pampered overpaid footballers, get out of the kitchen, or out of professional football! Plenty would like to take your place and live the glamorous lives you all lead, insults or no insults!

• Posted by: Wooram • Report Comment

WHAT ABOUT SPECTATORS RIGHTS?

19.12.07, 4:39pm

The way the England team played against Croatia abused my rights as a paying spectator. Our "precious" footballers put more thought and commitment into spending their bloated salaries than they do into earning them.
As for foul-mouthing, surely the younger spectators learnt the words from lip reading the players.
As for respect, no doubt the players giving referees "advice" after something as petty as a throw-in, let alone a goal decision, are not the best example.
As to honesty, slow motion television replays are perfect coaching material for the sly, deceitful, and downright vicious tricks and pretend injury now practised by the majority of premier players.
Even pampered footballers need to command respect - they cannot demand it.

• Posted by: JohnY69 • Report Comment

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HE HAS A POINT

19.12.07, 4:07pm

Sol has a point and people shouting out racist and homophobic abuse should be arrested and charged and banned from any football ground - FOR LIFE!

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