If you don't want people to address you directly then surely the best plan would be either to stick to your username or not post such ridiculous nonsense. Manchester Blue The part of the post that you have quoted was made in response to Tristran's challenge........ I defy any of you not to react if your wives or kids are verbally abused in public.

To start I'd just like to point out that similar to the experience of other posters on this board that it is you that has decided to address me directly. Also, Tristran, I'm not sure why you think you've got the right to tell me what I need to do, say or think, but nevertheless I'll respond to your challenge. On the day in question I was at home with my family after working away in Europe for the week (not just that particular week, but as part of an ongoing contract of work). I listened to the match on the radio as I usually do if I can't make it to an away game, not unlike the rest of the "long standing and loyal Rovers fans" that I go to Ewood with, that have families and responsibilities and other demands on their finances. At what point in your flawed reasoning did you make the supposition that I would join in any chanting berating Yorke for the fact that his son is blind? That accusation is not even worthy of a response, except to say that it does sadden me to hear that Blackburn Rovers fans joined in with that chanting (if what you claim is true.....) (However it is also a fair assumption that his son wouldn't have any contact with Mr Yorke anyway, because as the child's mother has stated on national TV, he is an absent father) When the goal in question went in I doubtless celebrated because a Blackburn Rovers player had scored a goal for Blackburn Rovers,the team I have supported for a long time, in the same manner that I was happy at the game when Steven Reid scored on Sunday last, 21/11/04. I detect that you may be accusing me of some hypocrisy. Am I guilty, Well yes and no. No because, although not blessed with the ability to predict the future, I never believed for a minute that re-uniting Yorke with Cole would produce more than an ember of the fire power they provided for their previous club. As Yorke's 12 league goals in 2 seasons proves. Yes, because although during my time as a student at London University I joined a couple of anti-racism rallies, I wouldn't do that now since from experience I abhor such things as "Political Correctness", "positive-discrimination" and all the other concepts that sanctimonious do-gooders indulge in as much as I do racism itself. At no point did I say that Mr Yorke didn't have the right to do what he did, however I am doubtful about his motivation. In my experience, natural reactions take milliseconds and are not preceded by 20 mins of warm up exercise that involves kneeling down and grinning inanely at the occupants of the Blackburn End. Tristran, I'm fairly certain that you wouldn't have the mental capacity to upset me verbally, as evidenced by the warped logic quoted above. However, make no mistake if you ever verbally abused my wife and kids I'd most certainly knock you out and dance on your head, all with absolute self control. Please don't address me directly again.

Anybody read or heard a statement from Dwight Yorke or Steve Bruce exonerating Blackburn Rovers Football Club yet ? Whether the situation obliges them or not, at least one of these two individuals owes the club a reciprocal favour. Surely Steve Bruce wouldn't let his son play for a racist club.

Have Mr Dwight Yorke's actions now set a precedent for ethnic minority sportsmen and women in this country? Why should BRFC be the only club to enjoy being singled out for inspection under the political correctness microscope? Are ethnic minority sportsmen and women now duty bound to follow Mr Yorke's lead in the eradication of racism from the terraces or wherever else sport might be spectated? I look forward with great anticipation to the next episode in the fight against the current wave of virulent racism in our football grounds. Who's next ? Some possibilities.................. The mainstays of the Arsenal team leave the field of play because a small section of the crowd chant "We f'in hate the French" - How would the FA deal with that one? Would they play on? Who'd be awarded the points if the game was abandoned? The team close to relegation or the team at the top of the league? Leeds United have to play behind closed doors after parts of the crowd indulge in an anti-Turkish chant? (Mind you they've done that chant before without repercussion, so that must be permissable) Games stopped whilst the offended player climbs into the crowd to point out the sorry individual that abused him? The list of teams is endless, because there's bound to be at least 10% of any crowd that watches them who have thought racist thoughts, or said the word "Paki", or "blackboard", or "blackout", or..... or...... or....... god forbid..........."Blackburn". Well done millionaire Mr Dwight Yorke, you've really shown the world what you're made of by insisting on bringing charges against the one drunken kid in a 20000+ crowd that dared to imitate a monkey. Mr Yorke has really gone up in my estimation. Mind you, just an idea, what if super-hero Dwight Yorke had given the feeble minded miscreant the chance to meet and issue a joint statement condeming the evil racism consuming our sports arenas, whilst admitting to the world the error of his ways. Maybe something positive would have come of this whole sorry episode. Never mind, at least Mr. Yorke still comes out looking great. By the way, I sometimes imitate a monkey when I'm playing with my kids........... Sorry, Dwight wouldn't have any idea about that would he. I wonder if he considered whether his spot of evangelicism might stir up a bit of racism rather than eradicate it?

I wanted to put this as a separate post. Will DY be reprimanded for jumping into the crowd and then giving us the one-fingered hand gesture? Didn't he play for United when Cantona was there ? Did that lesson not sink in? If there was a real problem with racism at Ewood would DY have risked jumping into a partisan Blackburn end, to make his anti-racism point? This guy is too scared to take responsibilty for his own son. DY was a wate of money for us, and when the reality of his standing with Rovers fans sank in he didn't like it, so he picked on the one idiot in the crowd who was calling him a chicken. Is the reason that he wasn't warming up in front of the Birmingham fans because they've got a fairly low opinion of him too ? From Birmingham chairman David Sullivan's comments that would be a safe assumption. Get out of football if all he can do is stir up controversy, since for the 15 mins he was actually on the pitch nobody had an opportunity to boo him because he was never on the ball.

The point I want to make has been debated extensively on this mb in other threads, but nobody has mentioned it in the other 16½ pages of this thread. Would "Dupla/Sparta/Roma scarf" individual even have been at the match if the tickets had been full-priced? At this point it is a rhetorical question until the facts of his attendance history are known. I am assuming that from where he was actually sat in the B,burn end i.e the very bottom left-hand corner, that he probably isn't a season ticket holder and has got into the ground using a £10 reduced price ticket. If this is the case then I would hope that the club would seriously review this policy, since I don't see from my seat in the B'burn End that it has any marked effect on the size of the gate. Is the few hundred at best that it might put on the gate actually worth the risk of bad publicity that one nutter can bring? Especially at a televised game. (For me, the sooner SkySports stop televising every single kick of a premiership football, and we at least get back to watching football at 3o'clock on Saturday, the better) Non season ticket holding, "occassional" BRFC fans come to watch good football and a winning team and will pay full price to watch it, preferably on Saturday at 3o'clock. If for instance, Rovers do have to play a game behind closed doors and 15000 season ticket holders are clamouring for refunds, then the reduced priced ticket scheme will have really backfired. Just to finish specifically on the incident: -I heard and sang "There's only one lazy......." -I heard but didn't sing "There's only one Peter Andre" -I heard booing and booed to express my displeasure at DYs lack of effort for BRFC. - I did not hear monkey noises nor racial chants. -On seeing the TV pictures of the incident my 2 year old daughter spontaneously sang a rendition of "Chick chuck chick chuck chicken, lay a little egg for me". She has absolutely no idea about the concept of racism (nor will I indoctrinate her) I think that DY and SB have taken an opportunity to jump on a bandwagon wagon, one to deflect attention from the fact that he is a bad footballer and father, and the other from the fact that his side threw away a golden opportunity for an away win. (Since '75 Rovers 5- 2 Plymouth Argyle)