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Seventeen Year Old Charged For "Vile" Chants

posted 7 months ago by FootOfDavros (6947)
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-67245144

What a complete waste of time, police resources and money.

17. We all did stupid things when we were 17. A criminal charge does seem a bit OTT. A temporary stadium ban would probably have sufficed to teach him a lesson.

[–] FootOfDavros (6947) 7 months ago

Agreed. Let Man City deal with it however they saw fit.

I just find it crazy I was reading the other week about police in some area saying they were no longer to follow up on certain minor crimes due to lack of resources, yet we've got something like this...

It's just nonsense re fear of social media blowback. And really it's just nuts. Just a kids singing some nonsense to "wind up" Man Utd fans.

[–] capuchin (2734) 7 months ago

Yeah. And mean things are shouted out at football grounds the length and breadth of the country on a weekly basis. By fully-grown adults. Almost none of them lead to public order offence charges. It's only because this kid's moment was high profile. That's no way to apply the law.

If I were in charge of this, I'd just ban him from the stadium for the rest of the season. And that'd be the end of the matter.

[–] katiemelualover (168) 7 months ago

I mean I dont get the kid at all tbh.

Even if you hate sir Bobby for being a United player, surely his status as your national team legend would stop you from taking the piss out of him in death.

[–] FootOfDavros (6947) 7 months ago

...surely his status as your national team legend...

Bobby Charlton was before even my generation. I doubt kids of today would even bother even watching any footage of him from 50/60 years ago.

That's the daft thing. As a person, Charlton will mean literally nothing to this kid, nor to most of the people "offended" by the chants. It's just cross club wind-up nonsense.

[–] katiemelualover (168) 7 months ago

Of course he played in the stone age, but his record for being the top goal scorer for England was only broken 7 or so years ago. It was a big deal, and Charlton was a big deal relatively recently even if he stopped playing decades ago.