On leaving after the final whistle today the two blokes about 4 seats along from us were screaming to Shorey to "eff off". I said to one of them, quite nicely in fact, "awww he wasn't that bad" - to which I was subjected to a tirade of foul mouthed abuse, telling me to shut up as I know nothing about the game, asking me about what the West Ham fans had been singing (i.e. you should have come to West Ham) and continually yelling in between to Shorey to "eff off" again.
His neanderthal brother then decided to chip in and say it was Shorey's worst performance ever, to which Schards disagreed. Then he said to Schards "are you saying that's his best performance ever then?" To which Schards replied that of course it wasn't, it just wasn't his worst performance ever, although he didn't have a particularly good game and in his opinion he was worse against Everton.
These two knuckle heads then decided to tell me and Schards to "shut the eff up or they'd shut us up"
I'm all for people having an opinion and I actually only commented to these blokes because in the past they've been ok and said hello when I've squeezed past them for my usual toilet break 3 minutes before half time.
Some other people told us that they're always like that when we've lost or played badly and one guy had previously reported them to the club when they had a similar go at him a few years ago and they had received a letter. I could contact the club and get their season tickets revoked. But I'm not going to be that nasty. I just hope that when they have calmed down they realise that they were a tad over reacting. They've been going long enough to have seen us lose at home to much lesser teams in much lower divisions, so I hope they think on and realise that we ALL want Reading to do well in every game, but in reality that just doesn't happen.
I hope they're nobbers, or someone they know is a nobber and can point them in this direction. I'll accept their apology willingly.
If, however, they do that again and speak to me or anyone else around us like that again and I WILL report you and you WILL have your season tickets revoked.
Much love.
I share your sentiments entirely;; I know this is a reason why my brother always declines my invitations to come to a home match !!!!.....I was really quite 'annoyed' with the behaviour of the bloke who sits behind me having to 'scream' abuse for every mistake they made and then for his son to bawl out their faults too, as if he was some professional coach. However, what really bothered me today was an incident at half time when queuing in the north stand concourse. Somebody in the front of the queue starting having an argument with an other bloke in the next queue, calling him a pr*ck and other such names and,initially, I thought they were messing about as one appeared to be smiling. Next thing I know, the bloke in front is flat on his back on the floor with broken glasses.....the other bloke immediately admits he was wrong but just walks off down the gangway to B15. It got reported but by which time the stewards turned up, the assailant had gone. Others went off after him but I doubt if they caught him. This was my first match
this season........hmmm ! What with the result not going our way, this
wasnt the best day I have had in a while !!!!
