Liverpool followers had the right response to the most recent spherical of disgusting poverty chants from a set of people at St James’ Park tonight.
A frantic encounter on the Tyneside venue led to a 3-3 draw being the Reds and Newcastle, with Arne Slot’s facet dropping factors for the primary time since late October however nonetheless seven clear on the high of the Premier League.
Because the travelling Kopites made their manner by the concourse of the stadium after the match, they had been subjected to a miserable tirade from sure spectators who broke right into a spherical of ‘Feed the Scousers’, a pathetic chant which has sadly been heard at different stadia throughout England just lately within the runup to Christmas.
The Liverpool supporters had their very own response to such provocation, although, reminding their Newcastle counterparts that the Merseyside membership are certainly ‘high of the league’, and by a considerable margin as effectively.
You’ll be able to view the footage of the 2 chants beneath, through @asim_lfc on X:
Newcastle followers sing the ‘Feed the scousers’. Liverpool followers reply with ‘Liverpool, high of the league’ #LFC pic.twitter.com/IamGxpKFFW
— Asim (@asim_lfc) December 4, 2024
Poverty chanting is simply not acceptable
As soon as once more, it’s essential to make the excellence between the various real Newcastle followers who got here to St James’ Park to help their group tonight, and the minority of idiots who assume that poverty chanting is honest recreation.
The problem at hand is unfortunately one which impacts each a part of the nation, and for so-called soccer supporters to make use of it as a way of ‘banter’ is much past the realms of acceptable behaviour.
There’s a giant distinction between slagging a participant or group in the event that they’re performing poorly, and making gentle of life-or-death conditions, with the latter a depressingly acquainted incidence at stadia in England in recent times.
The unhappy reality is that, till the authorities clamp down on such bile with correct punishments, it’ll proceed to rear its ugly head at matches. At some point we hope that such disgusting chanting will likely be a factor of the previous, however there’s quite a bit to be completed to make sure that it’s lastly stamped out for good.