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The point is, its easy for clubs to find reasons to issue complaints about other teams
the swim away thing could well be harmless to most of us ( It doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I see it as Football banter ) but we know it is done to wind up / be provocative / incite our fans, thats the whole purpose of it, we know that ( and I am sure you do ), so when the club complain about " feel the gesture is highly provocative and threatens to escalate tensions between the two sets of fans. " they are right, thats the purpose of it, just as the examples I have given were to wind up / provocative / incite the Jacks, just as Southampton fans did the aeroplane, the list goes on, they are all done for the same purpose and chosen to have maximum effect
I’m sure those 20 or so youngsters from port Talbot who are about 50 now, who got chased into the sea that night and pelted with pebbles by about 80 jacks are deeply disturbed by it still I find it funny as I was at that game and as about 500 of us walked back to the station those jacks wouldn’t come anywhere near us (even the swansea police were laughing at them) just went off looking for stragglers which they found in due course. Let them celebrate it
So, acts of violence between fans is funny ? Presumably you and a few others were laughing your socks off as Millwall fans (and Swansea fans on other occasions) ripped up Ninian Park and threw seats and other debris into groups of people including women and children ? Anyone celebrating acts of violence of any kind is as bad as the people committing it and sick in the head.
Tell that to the people who are ‘laughing off’ the swimming gestures. I agree about City fans actions as well and if this was the other way around I would be saying the same thing. How would people react if one of our players celebrated a goal by putting a horses head on and running around in front of the Swansea fans - laugh it off ?