Portsmouth lodge official complaint against Tottenham over verbal abuse on ex-Arsenal man: Does it really matter?
by offsidetrap on October 3rd, 2008 10 commentsAfter mulling over the idea of going after Tottenham supporters for their extreme verbal assault at Sol Campbell over the weekend, it appears that Pompey have finally decided to do battle with the White Hart Lane club after they confirmed that the club would be issuing an official complaint with the FA over the noted incident.
Portsmouth have confirmed they will make an official complaint to the Football Association over the abuse Sol Campbell received during Sunday’s match against former club Tottenham.
The Pompey captain was subjected to abuse from the terraces during his team’s 2-0 Barclays Premier League victory at Fratton Park.
The south coast club confirmed on their official website, www.pompeyfc.co.uk: ‘After discussions with Sol Campbell, we will be making an official complaint to the Football Association concerning the verbal abuse aimed at him during Sunday’s match against Tottenham.’Campbell, 34, is a hate figure for Spurs fans after he moved to their bitter north London rivals Arsenal in 2001. (Daily Mail)
Most would agree that Pompey probably don’t stand a chance of finding the culprit who started the chant. Regardless, the first step of filing with the FA proves that the club won’t take this matter lightly. In a world where class and good sportsmanship has all but disappeared in the stands, the FA finds themselves in the unenviable position of figuring a way to rid stadiums of the heinous chants for good.
What do supporters think about Pompey’s recent move to file a complaint with the FA? Do you believe that anything good will come out of this whole ordeal?
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Anne-Maria Brown - October 3rd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I think it does matter the football authority have made so may acheivements in improving the respect issues for black/ethnic minority players.
Weedz - October 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
As the alternative is to do nothing about it and pretend it didn`t happen, it is very important to be, at leased, seen as doing something about it. Otherwise Pompey could be accued of not carring and not protecting their player. And besides, those kock-sucking, niggger spuds have to be put in their place. (At the bottom of the table.)
Sue - October 3rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Of course it matters but nothing will happen – the FA have had years to right all this and done bugger all about it. If you sling these fans out and ban them for a few years they will soon think twice about abusing anyone inside or outside a football ground.
Letter to Campbell - October 3rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Dear ArseSol Judas Campbell
We sincerely apologise for your liddle hurt feelings. Poor baby.
We did not realise that our venting of anger at your saying you loved Tottenham Hotspur and would stay, subsequent stabbing us in the back and joining our most hated rivals Arsenal, depriving us of any transfer fee in the process, would stop you from enjoying your ill-gotten millions for a cushy job running up and down a pitch kicking a ball about.
We now accept that it is a hard life engaging in said running up and down kicking a ball, making tons of money and getting trophies and medals due, not to you at all, but to the hard work of your far more talented teammates in the shape of Henry, Vieira, Adams, Seaman, Ljungberg, Pires and Bergkamp.
We also accept that we have insignificant 9 to 5 jobs earning a pittance and have no right to express our feelings even though we pay you and your fellow footballers’ wages and help keep the game alive.
We also accept that the anti-Spurs media snakes will stoop as low as possible to attack Spurs, and of course completely and utterly ignore any misconduct of other teams or fans, especially the “big 4″.
How often have we seen the media let those 4 teams get away with their illegal tapping up of players like Berbatov, Keane, Carrick, Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard, Joe Cole, Shaun Wright Phillips, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez etc or their fans imitating gas chamber hissing or chants along the lines of “Spurs are on their way to Belsen, Hitler’s gonna gas them again”, or disgraceful treatment of managers like Claudio Ranieri, Jose Mourinho and Avram Grant, or their players surrounding the referee or getting in other players’ faces (Martin Keown doing it to Nistelrooy springs to mind)
Yours with deepest regrets and a big fuck you to the anti-Spurs media hypocritical snakes.
Spurs fans
sprsnig - October 3rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
This was not racist chanting. This was anti Sol Cambell chanting. It might have escaped people’s notice but most of the Spurs side is black. It might have also escaped notice that there is no racist chating by Spurs fans against any other team or player.
Sol Cambell is an exception. Unlike any other player in my living football history, he joined a team in a way which seemed to suggest his scorn for both his former club and their supporters. He could have gone anywhere in the world. Why Arsenal? What did he expect ? Must have been hard counting those 30 pieces of silver.
I have no respect for him as a person and frankly, after suffering years of racist taunting , gas chamber hissing, anti Israel jobes as a Spurs fan find he recent spate of Spurs- the racist club absurd.
So kich racism out of soccer -start with Chelsea- close down stands.( How Ambramovich ( a Jew) stands for it, I don’t know)
Then I might start taking this seriously.
Remedy - October 3rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I’m black
I follow Tottenham home and away
Where the lying Hampshire police have got the ‘racism’ issue is completely beyong me.
Homophobic and perhaps over the top yes, racist certainly not.
Campbell knew the deal end of.
COYS!
Anonymous - October 4th, 2008 at 12:10 am
upsets me greatly to see are club have a racist slur agaist us. i have NEVER heard any racists abuse towards anyone home or away.
and also we dont profesionally record are songs in a studio. prehaps the fa should look at these.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9cbx47QGA&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qup2yNlRe7k&feature=related
Gav - October 4th, 2008 at 1:29 am
Why is it that so many fans are keen to defend and deny the ‘racist’ chants heard at Fratton last weekend but seem to accept as ok the homophobic chants?
This whole issue is not about what Sol has done in the past or what other clubs have sung in the past, it is about what is acceptable in today’s society – and whether the laws of the land apply inside a football ground.
Stratty - My Voice MUST Be Heard! - October 4th, 2008 at 1:31 am
‘Letter to Campbell’ says it all, it should be (appropriately edited) published up and down the country.
Weedz is off his head – great ‘nigger’ touch, mate! – How a comment like that gets past the COS moderator is a seriously disturbing question.
It wasn’t racist chanting – when is the media going to realise that the tribes developed in football naturally breed their own force, and that a sense of morality will develop with equal inevitability.
It was just awful what Campbell did, he knew the amount of people that he was hurting. His complaints are pathetic.
Spurs fans are being rightly marginalised for homophobic chanting, but their COMPLAINT is legitimate, by all standards.
Fluffydog - October 5th, 2008 at 11:43 am
England has done very well in sorting out the Hooliganism and racism in stadiums. Now it is time to tackle the issue of homophobia. I have been teaching for over 10 years, I coached school teamsand play myself every week.
Perhaps we should start educating at school level as as being tough straight away and kick the idiots out of the stadiums and ban them for life.