On Booing Rio Ferdinand

he supports his boy, the NE Patriot’s very own “Tim” Brady.

It stems from the Anton issue and his comments on twitter and other media about JT and the England captaincy.
I thought the Rio Ferdinand, your brothers a cunt chant to be very close to a line but this is the nature of British football grounds. It’s tribal and the fans will defend their own regardless.
People were also booing Rooney most the game, because he is a whiny arrogant twat and Most of the United team were abused in some way, maybe the Media are making too much of the race thing and remember that most fans hate players from other teams for a multitude of reasons.

Does it have to come back to racism every time?

They make a massive deal on anything negative about John Terry, but Rio is hero despite refusing to take drug tests? Ryan Giggs actually fu*ked his brother’s wife and Terry is the bad guy for a one night stand with Wayne Bridge’s ex-girlfriend. Terry is far from an angel but the rush to paint him as the worst of the worst while Manu players get a pass (or pretty close to it) just makes me ill.

what should I make of all this Stuart Pearce stuff? I’ll agree that it is old news and happened in a time where racism was not in the process of being actively eradicated from the sport, but seems to me that if people consider Terry’s statement as a racial slur worthy of punishment, that Pearce’s, too, should be seen as the same. Not saying they maybe shouldn’t appoint him as interim manager, but it sure does stink of hypocrisy, they way everyone involved in Terry’s case is coming out to say they’ve moved on from Pearce’s folly.

and if you think it’s coz Rio is a fuckwit then ask yourself why he has never been booed before at Stamford Bridge. He’s certainly never been singled out like he was now and when all things are considered one can only conclude that it’s because he’s Anton’s brother (who BTW we also booed at QPR). In fact I bet we’ll be right back talking about this after Anton gets booed and is subjected to more you know what you are chants. or maybe not coz thez an awful lot of blind eyes here.

Lets also not forget that Rio’s probably right about the trial being put back til June. I would rather the whole thing was done and dusted over the couple of weeks like Harry’s trial and we all got on with things. But no, we all have to go through months of this with plenty of fall out in the mean time.

The club has handled it better than Liverpool but that’s been despite AVB, who first said JT should not be questioned because he’s England captain. Then said he would back him WHATEVER the outcome, then said Anton HAS to shake JTs hand and finally claimed not to hear the booing of Rio. He hasn’t stooped as low as Kenny but this isn’t the best way to deal with it.

and it’s all over with. The legal authorities have the ultimate blame over that. This was a mag court so I’m fairly sure if all had been ok with it the whole thing could have been wrapped up by end of next week.

If I was JT I would relish a quick two week trial asap to clear my name.