Pair found guilty of homophobic chanting

[Dirk Gently]

A man and a boy were found guilty today of shouting "shocking and disgusting" homophobic chants at the Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell during a football match.

Ian Trow, 42, of Deanshanger, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and a 14-year-old had pleaded not guilty at Portsmouth magistrates court to indecent chanting. The charges relate to chants made at Campbell during a match against Tottenham Hotspur at Fratton Park, Portsmouth, on 28 September last year.

After a three-hour trial, Georgette Holbrook, chairwoman of the panel, found the two defendants had chanted: "Come on gay boy, that's my gay boy." She said: "We find that the words used were in extremely bad taste, they were inappropriate, shocking and disgusting, and as such they were indecent."

Sophie Stevens, prosecuting, said: "The police and members of the public considered there was significant abuse from the travelling Tottenham supporters, abuse above what is, perhaps wrongly, accepted at a football match."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/may/1 ... portsmouth

[Thaumagurist*]

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[Alivey]

whata bunch of poofs

[Huntley & Palmer]

Erm....."come on gay boy"??? Is that really offensive?

“Sol, Sol, wherever you may be
You’re on the verge of lunacy
And we don’t give a f*** if you’re hanging from a tree
You Judas c*** with HIV.”

is the chant in question

[Thaumagurist*]

Ah, yes, that is slightly worse.

[Row Z Royal]

Ah, yes, that is slightly worse.

[Maguire]

Prosecuting football fans for a bit of banter :smh:

[willz_royal]

Ian Trow is my dads name

[Row Z Royal]

Ian Trow is my dads name

Sodding gay bashers.

[willz_royal]

bloody queer paper getting my age wrong.

[TheMaraudingDog]

Erm....."come on gay boy"??? Is that really offensive?

“Sol, Sol, wherever you may be
You’re on the verge of lunacy
And we don’t give a f*** if you’re hanging from a tree
You Judas c*** with HIV.”

is the chant in question

What is homophobic about that?

[Compo's Hat]

What sort of chant is "Come on gay boy, that's my gay boy."

That's rubbish!

[handbags_harris]

What would you have chanted then Compo?

[John Madejski's Wallet]

“Sol, Sol, wherever you may be
You’re on the verge of lunacy
And we don’t give a f*** if you’re hanging from a tree
You Judas c*** with HIV.”

is the chant in question

What is homophobic about that?

^^^ what he said

[TBM]

How can you be prosecuted for telling the truth?