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Fabrice Muamba

Really unpleasant scenes. Must have been horrible for those seeing it all unfold live infront of them. Do hope the fella makes a recovery from this.
 
One of the things about the Internet is that it can make a something out of a nobody. That guy clearly has nothing going for him, just got some screwed up belief system, and he's using his $100 computer to make him feel big man. Not worth the time of day.

Doesn't equate with Muamba who, by all accounts, seems to be well respected as a likeable man who plays his sport in a fabulous spirit. Wherever he goes in his life and his career from here, he is a remarkable testimony to what someone can achieve from the harshest of backgrounds.

Leave little man in his hole of hate and keep praying for Fabrice :)
 
RIP Fabrice Muamba was trending on Twitter last time I checked. Sick fudges got nothing better to do with their lives.
 
Mumorn said:
RIP Fabrice Muamba was trending on Twitter last time I checked. Sick fudges got nothing better to do with their lives.
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All it takes is one sicko to start it. Then a few thousand well meaning idiots use the same tag to tell how wrong and sick he is. By doing this they are making it trend because they're repeating the words he used.
 
Can't stand twitter. I like reading what Benny has to say, other than that it's just full of self-important tossers.
 
I read in the times today that Muamba fled zaire as a kid, came here, learnt English, got 10 gcses, 3 a-levels

Not many in the game have got a good education

Good on him
 
I've been thinking about something today. The reaction from our fans was excellent. I wasn't at the game but the TV cameras cut to the faces of our fans as well as theirs and there was a unanimous look of shock and sympathy in their eyes. You could even see some in tears. The Spurs fans even joined in with the chanting of his name. It was as if he was one of our own players. Then when the announcement came that the game was being abandoned, applause resonated throughout White Hart Lane and everyone accepted the decision as the correct thing to do.

What I was thinking about is, what if it hadn't been Muamba, who isn't a particularly famous player and has no real history with our club. What if it had been against Arsenal and somebody that epitomises the rivalry like Szczesny or Wheelchair had gone down. Would it have been the same reaction from the crowd? I remember a derby once when Thierry Henry got hit in the throat and went down and couldn't breathe, and the Spurs fans all started singing "let him die, let him die, let him die!".

I'd like to be able to think that if something like this had happened to one of those Arsenal players then they'd get the same response from our crowd as Muamba did, but sadly, I'm not so sure they would have done, even if it was only a minority of idiots shouting things at them.
 
SUIYHA said:
I've been thinking about something today. The reaction from our fans was excellent. I wasn't at the game but the TV cameras cut to the faces of our fans as well as theirs and there was a unanimous look of shock and sympathy in their eyes. You could even see some in tears. The Spurs fans even joined in with the chanting of his name. It was as if he was one of our own players. Then when the announcement came that the game was being abandoned, applause resonated throughout White Hart Lane and everyone accepted the decision as the correct thing to do.

What I was thinking about is, what if it hadn't been Muamba, who isn't a particularly famous player and has no real history with our club. What if it had been against Arsenal and somebody that epitomises the rivalry like Szczesny or Wheelchair had gone down. Would it have been the same reaction from the crowd? I remember a derby once when Thierry Henry got hit in the throat and went down and couldn't breathe, and the Spurs fans all started singing "let him die, let him die, let him die!".

I'd like to be able to think that if something like this had happened to one of those Arsenal players then they'd get the same response from our crowd as Muamba did, but sadly, I'm not so sure they would have done, even if it was only a minority of idiots shouting things at them.
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Honestly, I think they would. Yes we have an intense rivalry, and those two in particular are far from popular, but I'd like to think in a similar situation that rivalry would go out of the window. I for one wouldnt wish that to happen to any team's player, and I'm sure others feel the same
 
paxtonwolf said:
Honestly, I think they would. Yes we have an intense rivalry, and those two in particular are far from popular, but I'd like to think in a similar situation that rivalry would go out of the window. I for one wouldnt wish that to happen to any team's player, and I'm sure others feel the same
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This. Watching CPR being applied to another human being strips away any animosity or club rivalries. We would have behaved the same for ANY player, once the severity of the injury was known
 
SUIYHA said:
I've been thinking about something today. The reaction from our fans was excellent. I wasn't at the game but the TV cameras cut to the faces of our fans as well as theirs and there was a unanimous look of shock and sympathy in their eyes. You could even see some in tears. The Spurs fans even joined in with the chanting of his name. It was as if he was one of our own players. Then when the announcement came that the game was being abandoned, applause resonated throughout White Hart Lane and everyone accepted the decision as the correct thing to do.

What I was thinking about is, what if it hadn't been Muamba, who isn't a particularly famous player and has no real history with our club. What if it had been against Arsenal and somebody that epitomises the rivalry like Szczesny or Wheelchair had gone down. Would it have been the same reaction from the crowd? I remember a derby once when Thierry Henry got hit in the throat and went down and couldn't breathe, and the Spurs fans all started singing "let him die, let him die, let him die!".

I'd like to be able to think that if something like this had happened to one of those Arsenal players then they'd get the same response from our crowd as Muamba did, but sadly, I'm not so sure they would have done, even if it was only a minority of idiots shouting things at them.
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You would like to think the reaction would be the same as life is more important. However, there would be some fans with deep rooted opinions no matter the situation. Its sad but unfortunately reflects society. Imagine if we were playing Chelsea and it was John Terry who had gone down...
 
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A police spokesman said: "South Wales Police have arrested a 21-year-old male from the Pontypridd area in connection with racially offensive comments made on the social media site Twitter.
"The male is currently being held in custody at Swansea Central Police station. There is no further information at this time."
Both Swansea University and Treorchy RFC, where the suspect is believed to have played rugby, have made statements condemning the comments on his Twitter feed.
 
SUIYHA said:
I've been thinking about something today. The reaction from our fans was excellent. I wasn't at the game but the TV cameras cut to the faces of our fans as well as theirs and there was a unanimous look of shock and sympathy in their eyes. You could even see some in tears. The Spurs fans even joined in with the chanting of his name. It was as if he was one of our own players. Then when the announcement came that the game was being abandoned, applause resonated throughout White Hart Lane and everyone accepted the decision as the correct thing to do.

What I was thinking about is, what if it hadn't been Muamba, who isn't a particularly famous player and has no real history with our club. What if it had been against Arsenal and somebody that epitomises the rivalry like Szczesny or Wheelchair had gone down. Would it have been the same reaction from the crowd? I remember a derby once when Thierry Henry got hit in the throat and went down and couldn't breathe, and the Spurs fans all started singing "let him die, let him die, let him die!".

I'd like to be able to think that if something like this had happened to one of those Arsenal players then they'd get the same response from our crowd as Muamba did, but sadly, I'm not so sure they would have done, even if it was only a minority of idiots shouting things at them.
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Undoubtedly, there would be one or two idiots.

But I think that the vast majority would instantly take off their Spurs spectacles and become concerned members of the human race. Singing songs like "Let him die..." is one thing when there is clearly no chance of the player dying but another thing altogether when he is genuinely fighting for his life.

It's hard to convey to you the audible gasp and palpable sense of shock that coursed around the ground the instant we first saw the medics applying CPR. It changed everything. Suddenly, this wasn't just a football injury. It was life and death. It really mattered. Football, and its petty tribalism, didn't. Shankly was wrong.
 
jimmyb said:
Undoubtedly, there would be one or two idiots.

But I think that the vast majority would instantly take off their Spurs spectacles and become concerned members of the human race. Singing songs like "Let him die..." is one thing when there is clearly no chance of the player dying but another thing altogether when he is genuinely fighting for his life.

It's hard to convey to you the audible gasp and palpable sense of shock that coursed around the ground the instant we first saw the medics applying CPR. It changed everything. Suddenly, this wasn't just a football injury. It was life and death. It really mattered. Football, and its petty tribalism, didn't. Shankly was wrong.
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Given the fact that Bill Shankly was a genuinely funny man, I have a suspicion that he may just have been taking the tinkle with his matter of life and death comment.
 
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