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It's the fifth round cup draw of a lifetime, ten thousand Crawley Town supporters will turn up at Old Trafford and one complete plonker has risked the lot of them getting a stony well-deserved silence from the locals. How utterly incompetent do you have to be to screw up a moment in a small club's history like this?

BBC News - Man arrested after Crawley fan 'mocks Munich air crash'

I'll be delighted if the team's completely humiliated on the day. What a prat.

I just watched the video. You always get one that's none too bright. If I hadnt known the fact, I might not have spotted him but once you know, the sign language is quite obvious.

Extremely tasteless

Well, looking on the bright side, congratulations for having teenagers aware of an historical event that happened over 50 years ago even if the knowledge was used so poorly. I have a strong suspicion that would never happen in the US.

SnoozeAgain;1353788 wrote: Well, looking on the bright side, congratulations for having teenagers aware of an historical event that happened over 50 years ago even if the knowledge was used so poorly. I have a strong suspicion that would never happen in the US.


The sad fact is that Liverpool fans do the same sort of thing on the terraces when they play Man Utd. Its not an awareness of an historical event rather than seeds sown on the terraces when the moronic and the alcohol come together. Being as vile as you can to the opposition seems to be par for the course at most matches. Man Utd fans in turn, wallow in reminding Liverpool of the Heysel stadium tragedy in much the same way. Football is so partisan here that events like this are all too common - all round Europe really - especially for local derbies. I can't remember ever seeing the type of vile intimidation in the US.

I took my wife to Wembley last year to watch the FA cup - Chelsea v Portsmouth - she had never been to a football match before. Both sets of fans walked down Wembley Way together after the match. No segregation of fans and no trouble. Lots of banter and to-ing and fro-ing with songs and chants. All good fun. It can be done.

Football is growing up. Slowly. Its much more a family event than it used to be when I was a young man. There was a time when only the hardened female went to a match. Still a long way to go but at least the journey has started

It wasn't, I discovered to my chagrin, televised. I did find a match report - a remarkably partisan match report, given the result - with accolades like "Crawley continued to show no respect for their opponents and had United on the ropes in the final minutes. Hearts were in the mouths of the home support in injury time as Brodie headed a corner onto Lindegaard's crossbar with the goalkeeper beaten."

Read all about it... Manchester United vs Crawley Town Football Club Report - Goal.com

I'm not convinced that "the Premier League leaders looked in shock" but even so. That's football.

SnoozeAgain;1353788 wrote: Well, looking on the bright side, congratulations for having teenagers aware of an historical event that happened over 50 years ago even if the knowledge was used so poorly. I have a strong suspicion that would never happen in the US.


Only because most US kids have no sense of history. They can barely remember past the last rock concert.