Reminder of conduct - letter from SUFC..

[Sean Thornton]

Absolute Joke of a letter.

There is no place for racist or homophobic abuse in this day and age but otherwise this is a football ground not church,

If an opponent or referee behaves like a twat I am going to call him a twat.

It is a joke of a letter, but if l'd received it l'd be shaking my head thinking which divvy wrote this and which director let him actually put a stamp on the envelope and post it rather than turning into Jack Torrance stranded at the Outlook.

 

[I should coco]

That's all you noticed?

My screen isn't good at highlighting the red wax crayon.....

 

[BushBlade]

Having received the same letter from jurgen morton-hall i decided to ring to speak to him today to see why he had sent the letter to me , i was put through to his office to be told he had just left the office and another gentleman asked if he could help with the enquiry, i told him i was disgusted at having received a letter regarding behaviour bad langauage etc etc when i was not in attendance for the Norwich match as i have been ill and whatsmore whilst i do have season ticket at back of dugouts i have only attended 2 matches this season the brentford match and the barnsley match , he said he could only apologise but it would be a logistical nightmare to pinpoint exactly who the culprits was , so i said you send letters out to people that did not attend the match do you to vilify those that are innocent , i said to him i was aware there was controversy surrounding the Norwich match and certain people was allegedly verbally abused , he said yes directors in the directors box was abused and officials , and coaching staff and players , he said people had actually rang in since letters was sent out to give seat numbers of the culprits and as a result those involved will be under close scrutiny with plain clothes police in attendance to observe any bad behaviour etc and the culprits dealt with, he apologised once again and said my receiving the letter was not actually targetting me as an individual , and he hoped i continued my valued support to wich i replied i had intentions of not ever attending any more matches due to the nature of the letter sent , i wonder why i was sent the letter if not been targetted ? seems hypocritical to me and as for having the area under close surveillance for future matches they can do what they wish , i wont be there to be scrutinised , i intend sending letter to kevin mcabe regarding the matter .all the years of renewing season after season and enduring some really bad seasons yet still renewing season ticket religiously and end up getting treat like that with letters sent out regarding behaviour etc at a match i did not attend, am still fuming

How much do you want for your season ticket?

 

[Ricky]

I've deliberately avoided this thread because I knew it would wind me up. The letter's every bit as pathetic as I thought it would be. I won't be saying much that hasn't been said, but...

Kids and swearing is one thing (no big deal IMO) but that's exactly what the Family Stand's for.

But any adults genuinely that affected by 'bad language' are absolutely pathetic and ought to find something else to do. And yes, this applies to the freeloading self important corporate types too - a big job title and a fancy suit doesn't mean everyone should modify their behaviour just for you.
It staggers me how some people can be so incredibly soft, and seemingly so unsuited to football matches despite typically attending for many years previously.

Maybe it would help these precious little flowers if the club allowed tickets to be purchased in the Family Stand without having to be with a child? It would open it up for anybody then but at least the flowers would have no excuse.

But I bet this was mainly instigated by Norwich after that game. They're a soft club.

 

[Sean Thornton]

How much do you want for your season ticket?

This type of deal is known as a "Barney"

 

[NuddysGloves]

My girlfirend and her dad moved seats to sit with me for one game at the back of the south stand. At one point the referee made a decision which I was less than impressed with and so I shouted at him to "have sex off"
My girlfriend's father was shocked by my language and told me I was no longer entitled to any Twirl Bites he had brought with him for half time. So you see kids, swearing is bad and has serious consequences. I have now learned my lesson, and no longer invite them to sit with me

 

[Hamburg Blade]

The irony is people being outraged at the letter whilst calling people over-sensitive softies for being upset at bad language and abuse.

 

[RammyBlade]

I've deliberately avoided this thread because I knew it would wind me up. The letter's every bit as pathetic as I thought it would be. I won't be saying much that hasn't been said, but...

Kids and swearing is one thing (no big deal IMO) but that's exactly what the Family Stand's for.

But any adults genuinely that affected by 'bad language' are absolutely pathetic and ought to find something else to do. And yes, this applies to the freeloading self important corporate types too - a big job title and a fancy suit doesn't mean everyone should modify their behaviour just for you.
It staggers me how some people can be so incredibly soft, and seemingly so unsuited to football matches despite typically attending for many years previously.

Maybe it would help these precious little flowers if the club allowed tickets to be purchased in the Family Stand without having to be with a child? It would open it up for anybody then but at least the flowers would have no excuse.

But I bet this was mainly instigated by Norwich after that game. They're a soft club.

Its a funny one really as swearing at football matches everywhere in the world is a cultural thing and is unlikley to be stopped. I sit in the south stand and have for 20 years and suddenly last season a matronly woman decides to sit in front of me and listens to me and my mate just having a bit of normal Sheffield chat using the venacular but not aimed at anyone in particular and it was just a private conversation. She decides to deride us for using the F word because she had her 12 year old grandson with her........
2 things -- I bet he has heard the F if not used the F word at school on a regular basis and I also pointed out that the 10,000 fans on the Kop were also using that word and could they not hear them ?

Also said that if she didntwant to hear 2 adult guys having a quiet and private conversation interspersed with profanity then she should go and sit in the Family Stand because we have sat here for over 20 years and follow the Blades home and away for all matches.
Moral of the story is if you dont want to hear swearing ....dont go to a football match, dont watch TV after 9pm, dont go to watch films at the pictures unless its Bambi,dont go into a pub at night,and dont go near my house because I will tell you to fuck off you stupid bitch !

 

[Tyler Durden]

Its a funny one really as swearing at football matches everywhere in the world is a cultural thing and is unlikley to be stopped. I sit in the south stand and have for 20 years and suddenly last season a matronly woman decides to sit in front of me and listens to me and my mate just having a bit of normal Sheffield chat using the venacular but not aimed at anyone in particular and it was just a private conversation. She decides to deride us for using the F word because she had her 12 year old grandson with her........
2 things -- I bet he has heard the F if not used the F word at school on a regular basis and I also pointed out that the 10,000 fans on the Kop were also using that word and could they not hear them ?

Also said that if she didntwant to hear 2 adult guys having a quiet and private conversation interspersed with profanity then she should go and sit in the Family Stand because we have sat here for over 20 years and follow the Blades home and away for all matches.
Moral of the story is if you dont want to hear swearing ....dont go to a football match, dont watch TV after 9pm, dont go to watch films at the pictures unless its Bambi,dont go into a pub at night,and dont go near my house because I will tell you to fuck off you stupid bitch !

You should've told her to get fucked there and then, just to watch her 12 grandson spontaneously combust. Prissy bitch.

 

[Bladepicker]

My girlfriend's father was shocked by my language and told me I was no longer entitled to any Twirl Bites he had brought with him for half time.

You should have said "that's nothing compared to some of the things your daughter shouts while I'm... etc."

 

[Grappler]

Its a funny one really as swearing at football matches everywhere in the world is a cultural thing and is unlikley to be stopped. I sit in the south stand and have for 20 years and suddenly last season a matronly woman decides to sit in front of me and listens to me and my mate just having a bit of normal Sheffield chat using the venacular but not aimed at anyone in particular and it was just a private conversation. She decides to deride us for using the F word because she had her 12 year old grandson with her........
2 things -- I bet he has heard the F if not used the F word at school on a regular basis and I also pointed out that the 10,000 fans on the Kop were also using that word and could they not hear them ?

Also said that if she didntwant to hear 2 adult guys having a quiet and private conversation interspersed with profanity then she should go and sit in the Family Stand because we have sat here for over 20 years and follow the Blades home and away for all matches.
Moral of the story is if you dont want to hear swearing ....dont go to a football match, dont watch TV after 9pm, dont go to watch films at the pictures unless its Bambi,dont go into a pub at night,and dont go near my house because I will tell you to fuck off you stupid bitch !

Probably while having a smoke behind the bike sheds, and looking at a copy of "Mayfair" with his mates, the dirty little get!

 

[BushBlade]

Its a funny one really as swearing at football matches everywhere in the world is a cultural thing and is unlikley to be stopped. I sit in the south stand and have for 20 years and suddenly last season a matronly woman decides to sit in front of me and listens to me and my mate just having a bit of normal Sheffield chat using the venacular but not aimed at anyone in particular and it was just a private conversation. She decides to deride us for using the F word because she had her 12 year old grandson with her........
2 things -- I bet he has heard the F if not used the F word at school on a regular basis and I also pointed out that the 10,000 fans on the Kop were also using that word and could they not hear them ?

Also said that if she didntwant to hear 2 adult guys having a quiet and private conversation interspersed with profanity then she should go and sit in the Family Stand because we have sat here for over 20 years and follow the Blades home and away for all matches.
Moral of the story is if you dont want to hear swearing ....dont go to a football match, dont watch TV after 9pm, dont go to watch films at the pictures unless its Bambi,dont go into a pub at night,and dont go near my house because I will tell you to fuck off you stupid bitch !

I bet her grandson was sat thinking 'oh FFS Gran, STFU'.

 

[BushBlade]

Probably while having a smoke behind the bike sheds, and looking at a copy of "Mayfair" with his mates, the dirty little get!

Graps, it's 2017, he's probably smoking crystal meth whilst watching dwarf porn on a stolen iPad.

 

[Grappler]

Graps, it's 2017, he's probably smoking crystal meth whilst watching dwarf porn on a stolen iPad.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I bet her grandson was sat thinking 'oh FFS Gran, STFU'.

At 12? Gwaan, ol' wom'n leave mi bee block da mofo.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

I don't agree with the majority of you on here who say, "if you don't want to hear swearing, go and sit in the Family Stand". I'm sorry, but there are limited seats available in the Family Stand and not everyone with a young family can sit there. How about this suggestion instead: How about having some standards of behaviour for yourself and respect for others?

Of course if you go to a football match you're going to hear bad language - I accept that. You can hear bad language anywhere these days. I was in a shop in Meadowhall the other day and they were playing this rapping music in the background with "motherfucker" in the chorus. Great! Maybe some folks have got so used to hearing it that they think it's absolutely o.k. to use it in whatever company. I don't personally. I do swear, of course, in conversation with mates, or in private. But I don't stand up in my seat and yell a barrage of foul abuse at the top of my voice and not give a damn about who it may upset around me - be they young children or elderly folk. If you think it's o.k. to do that then that's your prerogative, but that doesn't make it right or make others who don't share that view, wrong.

I sit in the South Stand and to be fair the majority of folks around us are respectful with their language. It's not about being "prissy" or "precious" at all. It's just a way of behaving in public that some of us still feel is a decent way to behave.

As for the letter, well...I think something must have gone off to provoke that - maybe the clue is in the bit which refers to abuse directed at the Director's box?

 

[boo radley]

Are we missing something here? Could the club have just put open letters on the seats in the area involved?
One possible reason not to do that would be that it would possibly enrage fans at a game?
One possible reason to do it would be so fans realise they are not targeted individually.

 

[I should coco]

One possible reason not to do that would be that it would possibly enrage fans at a game?
One possible reason to do it would be so fans realise they are not targeted individually.

More than one possible reason....

 

[boo radley]

More than one possible reason....


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Is that Harry Plane?

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I don't agree with the majority of you on here who say, "if you don't want to hear swearing, go and sit in the Family Stand". I'm sorry, but there are limited seats available in the Family Stand and not everyone with a young family can sit there. How about this suggestion instead: How about having some standards of behaviour for yourself and respect for others?

Of course if you go to a football match you're going to hear bad language - I accept that. You can hear bad language anywhere these days. I was in a shop in Meadowhall the other day and they were playing this rapping music in the background with "motherfucker" in the chorus. Great! Maybe some folks have got so used to hearing it that they think it's absolutely o.k. to use it in whatever company. I don't personally. I do swear, of course, in conversation with mates, or in private. But I don't stand up in my seat and yell a barrage of foul abuse at the top of my voice and not give a damn about who it may upset around me - be they young children or elderly folk. If you think it's o.k. to do that then that's your prerogative, but that doesn't make it right or make others who don't share that view, wrong.

I sit in the South Stand and to be fair the majority of folks around us are respectful with their language. It's not about being "prissy" or "precious" at all. It's just a way of behaving in public that some of us still feel is a decent way to behave.

As for the letter, well...I think something must have gone off to provoke that - maybe the clue is in the bit which refers to abuse directed at the Director's box?

Sadly the generations that follow you don't agree.

UTB

 

[Small Mendonca]

At the end of the day, it's just words. Actions speak louder than words.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

I thought it curious that those who swear "may be relocated". To where? If the South Stand isn't an "adult" stand, where is?

For what it's worth, I hope Ed Balls and Delia heard me. Ditto the fourth official and useless tosspot linesman.

Relocate to the family stand, the kids in there aren’t too bothered about a bit of swearing, in fact plenty of them are too busy baiting the away fans.

 

[Snowflake]

Relocate to the family stand, the kids in there aren’t too bothered about a bit of swearing, in fact plenty of them are too busy baiting the away fans.

If you expect a football match to be a suitable place for children who are cosseted from swearing, then don’t take them.

 

[PageHallBlade]

 

[reedy63]

Bramall Lane. my seat in the back row of the kop. I stand on my seat as we all do. I can,t help it if the ref is a cunt and the opposition are cheating. bastards
You're going to swear. thats why I love going you act differently in a nice way of course.than you would normally outside the ground.

 

[biggiesablade]

Bramall Lane. my seat in the back row of the kop. I stand on my seat as we all do. I can,t help it if the ref is a cunt and the opposition are cheating. bastards
You're going to swear. thats why I love going you act differently in a nice way of course.than you would normally outside the ground.

Just please be careful standing on them seats mate

 

[reedy63]

We are always careful. the reason why gangway F is our enter/exit point. is when the kop was converted to an all-seater. we got season tickets in the back row. people in a dozen rows in front of us were all stood up. rather than cause trouble, we decided to stand on our seats. otherwise, all you could see was the back of someone's head. and we have stood on our seats ever since.

 

[breeny]

Match days are 2 hours away from the conformity of my weekday job…I have my fair say at games, as does everyone else around me. I’ve actually got the bug for going to games more this season than in recent years really.

So, if I swear then it’s ok, because for those 2 hours I’m surrounded by like minded people who share a common goal and interest.

 

[JJBlade]

Typical of the times.
One person complains and gets listened to over the 500 people swearing and another 29,500 who don't care.

You're at a football match not the opera, if you don't like colourful language, fuck off

 

[Piffle and Tosh]

I really try you know, but the day a referee sees all the cheating and his supposed helpers who run up and down with their flags actually spot
the indiscretions on the pitch that will be the day I can keep my promise to myself that i wont swear at the football match .Until that day
i can only apologize to anybody who is offended .( I'm just glad i missed he game on Saturday because Norwich City have raised my blood pressure
to bursting on previous occasions especially the smug goalkeeper )