Fans back ban on swearing at Cheltenham Town games
SWEARING fans will be given the red card at Cheltenham Town Football Club as it cracks down on bad language.
Supporters have given their backing to plans to kick out anyone caught turning the air blue during matches.
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Cheltenham Town fans
Robins chairman Paul Baker is urging people to watch their language during games in an effort to maintain a family-friendly feel at the Whaddon Road ground.
It comes after the club received complaints about fans' obscenities at the game against Burton Albion last week, forcing them to kick out two away supporters who refused to keep their comments clean.
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Now Mr Baker is warning all fans who refuse to clean up their game that they could suffer the same fate.
Mr Baker said: "We've got a great tradition of being a family club and we don't want a small minority spoiling the match day experience for others.
"I have had a few complaints over people using bad language recently and we had to eject two people from the ground in the Burton Albion match last week.
"They happened to be Burton Albion fans, but it will be the same rule for home fans as it is for away fans.
"If we feel people are using excessive bad language, they will receive a warning and, if they continue doing it, we will eject them from the ground.
"If necessary, we are prepared to ban people for repeat offending but we don't want it to come to that.
"The message to fans is to please just be thoughtful. We all want what is best for the club.
"If people feel they don't want to bring their wives or children to watch us play than that would be a great shame and it's certainly not something we want.
"Getting as many people through the gate as possible is vital for boosting our playing budget.
"But we want a family-friendly atmosphere which reflects what we are all about as a club."
Many home supporters during Cheltenham's match against Northampton on Saturday thought the warning was a good thing and were glad Mr Baker had spoken out about it.
But despite the good intentions, many of the football lovers thought the colourful chants heard from the terraces of the Abbey Business Stadium were too engrained in the modern game to be stopped altogether. Others felt that Cheltenham was in fact far better than most grounds when it came to fans using foul words in the stands.
OPINION, P8
Comments
by late83
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 10:00PM
“Pathetic, absolutely pathetic, this club has got it all wrong, racism get rid, using the c word every sentence get rid, however venting your anger in a passionate way or even scoring the winner and cheering 'get in there you ****in beauty to be outlawed means you'll be banning most men that attend football or even putting them off going, its not the theatre its football.”
by johnnypunk66
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 8:59PM
“Don't want to hear swearing at the football? then don't go, it's called passion part n' parcel, completely daft and laughable.”
by theeiisss_lad
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 7:18PM
“*****”
by theeiisss_lad
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 7:18PM
“Alfredo, if one talks like you do, then one is clearly a ****”
by scrud36
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 4:45PM
“I love how you all think I'm serious ;)
Scruds. Wanna know what a scrud is? Look in the mirror scrud.”
by scrud36
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 4:38PM
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and when I hold you in my arms
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and I feel nice, like sugar and spice
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by Fatzio
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 4:37PM
“Bad language has nowt to do with class or what school you went to. It is knowing when to use it to best effect. It is not the prerogative of the working man (or woman) and I consider myself a working man, not a toff.”
by Fatzio
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 2:17PM
“Be good for the roses, Meerkat.”
by John_G
Tuesday, March 06 2012, 7:34AM
“Dear Scrud36, please take your foul mouth some place else and leave us ordinary morons to enjoy our football in a friendly environment. Perhaps anger management classes would be a better way for you to spend Saturday afternoons.”
by raidermanuk
Monday, March 05 2012, 10:34PM
“So you really find it acceptable to f and c in front of your young kids so long as they are aware they shouldn't use such words until they are older? I won't expand on this as I guess any in-depth reasoning would be lost on you.”