Put him straight. I have made it quite clear that any chant was the act of one person and one person only. Furthermore, I have stressed that Barnsley fans should be commended for booing the individual and ensuring the chant never got past the first line. Neil wanted to know what the chant was but I refused to tell him and he understood why. He asked if Billy could have heard it and I said that only a small number of Barnsley fans could possibly have heard it, even the Donny fans wouldn't have been able to hear. I said that Barnsley fans in general are disgusted by the whole incident and stated that if anyone should be identified and the allegation proved they should be banned from all football matches. I made it quite clear that this whole episode has been driven by the social media and in no small part by the Leeds fan propagating it on twitter. Neil didn't know about Ian Wright's re-tweet and is now looking into that and the source of the propagation of the rumour. I said that we were all keen for the truth to be established, the person to be dealt with, but for stories to be reported based on more evidence than facebook and twitter posts.
Good work mate I don't know why they couldn't see it for what it was in the first place, a single iscolated incident which doesn't portray 99.99% of Barnsley fans in the slightest.
Re: Good work mate Both the original story and the one leading on Don Rowing's statement are still on the website so nowt's changed.
Hmm, makes you wonder doesn't it. The jouro contacted me via Twitter and wanted my side of events. Was he expecting the response that he got- i.e. well reasoned insight into the event, the truth (i.e. nothing sensational)? I am tempted to think not. He may have been hoping for some pre-pubescent Facebook posting sort happy to dish the dirt on songs sang and happy to make it sound worse than it was. I could be wrong like, but I often think these people would be much happier with bad/sensationalist version of events than the much tamer truth. I await to be proved wrong when the Mail posts an updated version of events based on actual eyewitness evidence, rather than Twitter/Facebook updates.
Prepare to be right royally screwed Headline: Barnsley Fan Confirms Sick Chants Article: A Barnsley fan has today confirmed that he heard the sick chants directed at Billy Sharp. Mr Hicksy of Barnsley was stood in the away end of the Keepmoat Stadium for the match between Doncaster and Barnsley on the 2nd of January 2012 when a section of Barnsley fans began singing about Billy Sharp's dead son. etc etc
Re: Very classy foreplay technique you've got there, mate To be fair Neil Ashton comes across as quite a fair minded football writer, hes on talksport often and tends to shy away from sensationalism.
Re: Prepare to be right royally screwed Bring it on if he does but the tone of our conversation could not be further from the above. I think he'll just leave the original story up uncorrected. We'll see.
hicksey lets have the morn named and and shamed in PM and slaughtered in the next weeks when hes out and if he showes his face at the `well
Let's not. It would be safe to say the person in question will have been put in his place at the game and knows they have seriously f.ucked up and made a big error of judgement and will now have to live with it. Going off on another Chinese whisper based witch hunt. The club the town and its population has taken over a lot of unjustified stick and now has a stigma attached to it neither welcomed or deserved. Hanging someone out to dry isn't going to appease the shallow came wagon jumping twitter users or the trolls like that idiot from leeds. Time to lock ranks and show a united front. Stronger together.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Sharp-Barnsley-reject-claims-vile-taunts.html A little bit of balance restored.
