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• How they didn't know that celebrating an opponent's goal while sitting among the away fans would trigger such a reaction is beyond me!...
  Soren Moyer in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• "There is an assumption that we are better now than we've ever been"Assumed by whom, Kevin? ...
  John Collins in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• There is an assumption that we are better now than we've ever been, John, and that behaviour like this is now beyond the pale. Behaviour which happened every week a couple of decades ago. I suggest we are not now living in some great new enlightened time where boorish behaviour is no longer tolerated. In fact, we've been anaesthetised to a great extent, there's much worse shit going on now than at any time for decades. We're not advancing in our civilisation, we've regressed. Much better to see someone waking up from the dream, even if only for a few minutes, to object to some injustice in a physical manner, than to watch us all staring dumbly at our screens....
  Kevin Molloy in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• Big jump there, Kevin.From the atrocity of genocide to kids being beaten up at a football match....
  John Collins in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• It really is a strange old time we are living through. We can all watch on live stream as tens of thousands of kids get blown to bits in Gaza and carry on quite normally, but then agonise about 'Oh, what have we become!' when a couple of dickheads get in our end and celebrate a last-minute winner and fisticuffs break out? Footy is a tribaliistic working man's game, they are alll lagered up and wound up to 10. What do people think is going to happen when a load of invited guests start cheering at our demise? That there was a scuffle is the most predictable event of the weekend. All the opprobrium should be headed in our idiot centre forward's direction,...
  Kevin Molloy in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates
• I agree, John, Everton supporters or anyone else behaving like that is disgraceful. Is that what football has become? It's nothing short of pathetic behaviour. It's idiots like them who have caused a situation where it's not advisable to sit among the other team's supporters. Mistakes in this instance were made all round, but it's a poor state of affairs when you get such extreme reactions....
  Raymond Fox in Thierno Barry points out “unacceptable behaviour” after loss at Emirates