Racist fan fined £2,500 and banned for 3 years

, Daily Mail , 11 February, 9comments | Jump to most recent

William Blything, 41, has been fined £2,500 and was made subject to a three-year football banning order preventing him from entering any sporting arena. Blything was also ordered to pay £600 in court costs as well as £120 to the victim in compensation.

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Anthony Flack
1 Posted 12/02/2013 at 11:18:18

He sounds charming, well done to the chap who provided the evidence, he is a credit to the club in total contrast to Blything.

He sounds like a tool who instead of taking it on the chin has swaggered about in court and then outside the ground with the scarf.

Club should ban him for good.

Tony J Williams
2 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:02:38

What victim?

Dominic Bobadilla
3 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:09:30

Tony: the guy who reported him.

As for this Blything, imagine behaving this way with your kids present. Shameless.

Chris Morris
4 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:11:26

This kind of slightly angers me.

I agree he should be fined, banned etc. (I'd ban him for longer if it was up to me). However, I have no idea how he was caught because if it was that TEXT HELP AND SEAT NUMBER thing then I'm not sure how infallible it is. I've seen somebody led out and made to prove his innocence, rather than the stewards/police prove his guilt. The only thing he did wrong, that I could see, was excessive swearing!?!?!?!?

Maybe someone can enlighten me on how it actually works?

But good job Everton, for banning these people

Tony J Williams
5 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:24:42

Dominic, how was he a victim?

I am not defending the dope but how is the man who reported him a victim? He was white, wasn't he? So HE couldn't have been racially abused, which is what he was charged with.

Oh my sensitive ears, he swore and was racist.... here's a hundred and twenty notes?????

Victim, my arse!

Dominic Bobadilla
6 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:29:03

Jesus, Tony, he was a "victim" or the offended party from a strictly legal point of view. He was a victim in the sense that he had to listen to the gobshite of Mr Blything.

Dominic Bobadilla
7 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:31:33

Moral of story: think long and hard about how you behave in the public sphere. Everyone has got a camera nowadays. If you do not behave, you will find yourself on LiveLeak the following day. This will be the end of your career, and you will be a national fool to boot. Mr Blything has let his kids down more than anyone else.

Anthony Flack
8 Posted 12/02/2013 at 12:34:15

I thought the victim was Victor and smiled inwardly at how he might spend the £120. I wondered if he would head off to that jeweller in Cheshire where he and his mate were treated in an unusual fashion by the local copper – going something like "Oh no, two black guys outside the jewellers – they must be robbers."

Reminds me of a true and delightful little story from the early 1990s where a trainee bank manager at an Abbey National berated his staff who expressed fear and horror as two black blokes were in the queue and must be bank robbers (Gerrards Cross in not the most racially integrated of areas). Eventually the two chaps left the branch without incident but went on to hold up the Nat West, complaining afterwards in court of the length of the queue at Abbey.

Sorry not trying to make light of this but more interesting than the current work related alternative!

Jimmy Sørheim
9 Posted 15/02/2013 at 09:53:07

I think it is a slippery slope when fans are dragged into court for how they are acting during a football match. Just like the good old "tackle" is now a red card, the same can be said about chasing after a fan that in excitement utters negative words.

To me I think there is a line the courts should not intervene, let the club handle it. Next thing we will see are fans just sitting there quiet and not daring say or utter anything negative in fear of being taken to court or banned.

To me, being among all kinds of people and tempers is a fresh outlet, after all it is a game of football with emotions flying high. The day that people "hunt" for racist fans will be a sad day, it sort of seems like it has already started.

ps: I am only talking in general, as I do not know what this guy did.

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