Controversial weekend

Well to say that the weekend just gone, has been a bad one for the club is an understatement. A 3-1 defeat to rivals Tottenham Hotspur and on top of that a group of West Ham fans have been accused and two arrested for anti – Semitic chanting and making references to the two Spurs fans injured in Italy for the Lazio game.

 

 

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Well we all know the game wasn’t the best of games for West Ham but the truth is Spurs have a good, solid team which should not be forgotten. I know they are rivals but you have to give them credit for that. We are still lying in a solid 8^th position in the Premier League and we have looked good, so I hope the West Ham fans aren’t getting to worried after this defeat?

 

 

Moving onto the more serious issues of the game and the small portion of the West Ham family that have let themselves and the club down with vulgar chanting.

 

 

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Firstly I will bring up the issue of the chanting over the two injured Spurs fans in Italy and the chants of “Viva Lazio” and such as in reference to this. Are our fans forgetting these people are brothers, husbands, dads and sons to other people – this is a game of football and I am most certainly a die hard Hammer but I would never lower myself to disrespect someone’s family at a game. It is not acceptable. I have heard many excuses for the “Viva Lazio” chant for example it was a chant for Paolo Di Canio funny thing is for all my years as a West Ham fan I have never heard this chant for Di Canio. If you are going to be big enough to chant it you need to be big enough to accept you were in the wrong. We accept people get caught up in the moment but it doesn’t make it right!!

 

 

Now on to the chant of the “Yid” this is a hard one to condone or accept as the Spurs fans openly call themselves “Yids” or “Yid Army”. The fact is our fans were using it in a derogatory way, what makes it worse is that David Gold who has saved our club and that is pumping his own hard earned money in to it is Jewish, as is Yossi Benayoun – so why couldn’t we of refrained from using the term?

 

 

As a West Ham fan, not only that a football fan I find this hard because I don’t care what colour a person’s skin is or what religion they follow or if they are gay or straight, they are people at the end of the day just like you and me. So when I see the club I love being dragged in to this again its upsetting because I know this is not the West Ham fans I know, this is a small, mindless group that need to be eradicated from our club we need to help educate these people on what’s right and wrong at what ever necessary cost as for some people it is as a result of ignorance rather than malice.

 

 

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Let’s sort this out as a club, as West Ham fans, so this doesn’t happen again.

 

We are West Ham we are a good, respectful club with great fans lets not ruin that!!

 

Carl Bateson