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    Disabled Glentoran Fan taunted at city match

    This appeared in the Belfast Telegraph today. Please dont let it be true.

    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ne...-14049952.html

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    8 days after the game? Why didn't this come out last week.

    Bad form if its true, but was he singled out or was it just the fact he was in that stand where everyone was singing in support of City. I know i have gone to some games and had to go into the wrong end and keep it quite, its not a good feeling, in the lions den so to speak, and there was nothing being chanted directly at me but it seemed like it, a self imposed intimidation if you will.

    And this game would have been particularly bad, media jumping at the chance to paint the other side in a bad light, capitalising on the fear of the unknown, "the dirty fenians who eat their children" etc. when it was as clear as day that for city fans, Glens fans were the salt of the earth. I think that at times in works in the papers favour to elaborate on a story to the point where its not true.

    I just think that it might be a slow news days for the paper and they use this kind of a story to fill the pages
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    It doesn't say what area of the ground he was in. Would he be on the front of the shed or at the side of the Donie Forde?

    There was supposed to be a few IRA chants from the right hand side of the shed but were apparently drowned out very quickly. I was on the left side of the Shed & did not hear them during the game. If he was at the front of the shed I am sure I would have noticed any idiots abusing him...
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    Quote Originally Posted by pete View Post
    It doesn't say what area of the ground he was in. Would he be on the front of the shed or at the side of the Donie Forde?
    I think its on the left hand side of the Shed now, so yeah over where you were Pete.
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    Read somewhere else aswell he was intimidated by 3000 City fans and there was not even 3000 of us in the ground. As for the "spot the glentoran fan chant" it was probably a bit of banter they are using a disability to help with the sour lemons they are sucking

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    "spot the Glentoran fan"!!! oh no, sectarian, racial and every kind of abuse! Ban all the Cork fans forever..

    what a load of sh!te!

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    I hear these cork yobs celebrated upon scoring aswel

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    Lads, to be fair, the guy didn't like the game, he was on his own and felt intimidated. It happens, i think we should drop it now in fairness.

    If anything its the reporter who apparently doesn't have a shred of common sense who is at fault on this one. He is the guy you should vent your anger at, Victor Gordon from the Belfast Telegraph. If he was 12 he'd be too old to write a juvenile article like that
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    Quote Originally Posted by A face View Post
    Lads, to be fair, the guy didn't like the game, he was on his own and felt intimidated. It happens, i think we should drop it now in fairness.

    If anything its the reporter who apparently doesn't have a shred of common sense who is at fault on this one. He is the guy you should vent your anger at, Victor Gordon from the Belfast Telegraph. If he was 12 he'd be too old to write a juvenile article like that
    He didn't pull the story out of thin air like it came from the guy with the complaint.

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    Quote Originally Posted by corkboy360 View Post
    He didn't pull the story out of thin air like it came from the guy with the complaint.
    From what i heard tonight, i would take everything in that article with a truck load of salt. The author Victor Gordon has a very skewed motive for writing this article and i'd be question if he ever even spoke to James Cochrane.

    Dont believe anything in this article everything you read !!
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    I would'nt believe anything you read in the Belfast Telegraph. It does its utmost to cast nationalists (it would consider everywhere in the south) in a bad light. Just read a few of its articles on nuzhound if you dont believe me.

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