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There's poor sportsmanship and theres that.
FA has to ban Martinelli... No place in football for that at all.
What looks like a serious potential injury for Bradley and an opposing player throwing them off the pitch is insanely stupid.
Feel like not enough is being said about what Martinelli done... bounced a ball off and then pulled a player who just tore his knee up off the field?
Thats CRAZY.
Gabriel Martinelli.. a little fucking bum who's won absolutely nothing in his career… like the rest of them. A team of little gobshites managed by a bum who won fuck all as a player. Losers.
Arsenal have the most unlikeable squad in the league and that's even after getting rid of the rapist that they were all protecting for the past few years
Funny that, for all the stick Alexander Isak has taken, Marc Guehi’s reward for going about getting his move to Liverpool in a ‘classy’ way was to not get the move at all.
I’ll go into the details on tonight as I have hundreds of replies to my earlier post and there’s no point replying to them all.
So this fella has had his season ticket for many years at Anfield. He’s passionate but often takes things way too far but it is what it is. He has crossed the line before by throwing stuff at officials (usually chewing gum) and stewards looked embarrassed rather than do anything.
So I guess that’s allowed his behaviour to escalate maybe in his brain.
About 28 mins into the game, Semenyo goes to take a throw in. He’s not a player that goads the fans and seems like a decent lad. The sort of player that people want playing for their club.
For reasons I’ll never know, the fella near me in bay 7 (I’m bay 9) decides to go over to him in his wheelchair and shouts something at Semenyo. Semenyo then asks him to repeat it and he repeated it and threw his chewing gum at him.
Then 2 mins later the play is stopped. The fella next to me says he hopes Mark hasn’t said anything racist to Semenyo but then I’m getting texts from people saying it’s about the fan in the wheelchair allegedly abusing Semenyo.
We missed the first goal because all of us were uncomfortable being around this guy, who’s now sat in silence, probably realising what he’s done and he’s soon to be in the shit.
We didn’t want him near us and people (including myself) were calling him a racist prick. It was just uncomfortable to be around and we wanted him gone. The stewards didn’t have a clue what was going on either.
He was eventually removed from the ground at 21:01 by police. Firstly saying he’d refuse to move and wouldn’t leave but then agreeing to leave, then kicking off. I’d gone to the toilet by this point but saw him kicking off near the exit.
I believe there is some kind of protocol where the police have to remove them and not stewards and they have to get a sort of investigation going first. That’s why it took them 30 mins to get him out of the ground.
So the club now have to help the police with an investigation and rightly so. If he’s found to have racially abused Semenyo, he needs to be banned for life. No excuses.
Another fan chimed in saying “Semenyo didn’t look upset” so sorta sticking up for the abuser or playing devils advocate. But he just looked shocked to me, which is probably why he asked him to repeat himself.
So props to Semenyo for having the brilliant game he had. All 3 goalscorers were black, which was quite fitting really. The irony is, the fella had a “no room for racism” badge on his shirt.
I think at the time, it was annoying that we had to be around the prick but I think the club acted as fast as they could. I believe stewards can eject fans if they personally hear abuse but otherwise a report needs to be made for it to happen.
On the flip side of this, look at the amount of disability abuse there is in response to this. Discrimination is discrimination, so if you’re making your “edgy jokes” about disability on the back of it, you’re just as bad.
I’ve cropped his face out for obvious reasons but it’s incredibly ironic to have that badge on you and then do something like that. There’s obviously going to be a legal process ongoing now. The head steward asked us all a few questions and everyone was helpful.
Proud of the way the club acted in response to one prick. Anfield is a very welcoming place to people from all walks of life. Let’s keep it that way.
Liverpool have 79 points after 33 games.
Apparently we're "lucky" that City and Arsenal have fallen off.
Last season, after 33 games, Arsenal had 74 points. The season before they had 75.
City had 76 points after 33 games last season. The season before they had 79.
Alexis Mac Allister has been one of the most underrated players in the Premier League this season.
His game by numbers vs. West Ham:
9 crosses
7 touches in opp. box
7 duels won
4 shots
3 tackles
2 fouls won
2 shots on target
2x possession won
2 chances created
1 assist
Covered nearly every blade of grass. 🥵
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