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14 Australian football fans banned after displaying 'offensive' banner depicting oral sex
There has been outrage in the football community and media over the explicit banner of a man resembling Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold performing oral sex.
WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS have banned 14 supporters for 18 months for displaying a lewd banner during last weekend’s A-League derby with Sydney FC.
Wanderers said they would ban the 14 – all from the notorious Red & Black Bloc (RBB) fan group – across all competitions after the banner was hoisted on Saturday.
The move comes after Football Federation Australia this week hit the Wanderers with a show-cause notice, calling the banner “offensive to any reasonable member of the public”.
The governing body is expected to come down hard on the club, which has already been in trouble over incidents involving flares and other anti-social activities.
There has been outrage in the football community and media over the explicit banner of a man resembling Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold performing oral sex.
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The Wanderers took action after reviewing CCTV footage from before and during the 1-0 derby win and identifying fans who took part in concealing, assembling and displaying the banner.
“Following a thorough review of the incident on Saturday night we have acted to remove them from our club,” Wanderers CEO John Tsatsimas said in a statement.
This incident involved key leaders of the RBB who have shown no remorse for their actions of bringing our club and the game of football into disrepute and have continued to flaunt their disdain for the club… on social media.
“As a club we have had enough and have put the entire group on notice.
“While the vast majority of the RBB are exceptional in their support and actions for this club we must remove all those who see themselves as bigger than the club they support.”
The Wanderers said the banned spectators will also have to undergo a social inclusion programme before their suspensions can be lifted.
‘Creighton also said this morning that Renua would be publishing a list of so-called red line issues during the election campaign.’
I’d say the main one is who gets to run the red biro through the party name once they become extinct. If I were her, I would be getting that biro for Xmas
Eddie’s a wänker. He advised people on air to buy property in Cape Verde. Some analysts may get it wrong from time to time but advising people to buy CV property… Shameful when you consider most people that would bother listening to the little fella are working class rip off ireland viewers.
Renua will win seats. Flat taxation is a great idea. Also, their plan to do away with the most scandalous tax in Ireland, which is the punitive and over the top motor tax rates, would be fantastic.
Loved watching her being destroyed by Vincent in relation to her statements on SF. Has anyone else noticed that her right eye starts twitching when she is under pressure?
‘Renua will win seats. Flat taxation is a great idea. Also, their plan to do away with the most scandalous tax in Ireland, which is the punitive and over the top motor tax rates, would be fantastic.’
Jesus wept. Flat taxation. Flat world more like. Will these people ever please go AWAY!
I pray the Irish people are a little smarter than what they seem to be as all Renua is is simply Féin Geal and anyone who can not see this really really has been hit with the stupid stick to often.
Do Renua actually have any following?, their ethics are completely idiotic. I don’t see them winning any seats not to mind a coalition with any of the big four.
Well said. Also The lovely Lucinda has lately come across as dithering and unsure when quizzed on her policies and topical issues of the day. The rest of her crew e.g Billy Timmins, are County Council material at most. I don’t think SF/IRA will stay awake at night worrying about Renua’s stated position.
We all know who Lucinda will do business with..
Hopefully there will be no need of her services by the Blueshirts because she will not have any TD’s elected.
Trojan Horse-go back to Troy.!
‘Lucinda Creighton thinks animal cruelty tourism would give Irish economy a boost
“There’s definitely room for further promotion. Would be a huge boost for neglected rural economy.” The outrageous response from Renua leader Lucinda Creighton TD when ICABS challenged her on her suggestion that hunting be developed as an Irish tourism product.
During a Dail debate last month on the Horse Racing Ireland Bill, the Dublin South–East TD stated: “I think we need to develop a lot more of our tourism industry around the horse equestrian sector generally – be it sport horses, be it the hunting sector, be it racing and so on. A lot of that can be integrated because often it’s the same people who are interested in all the different elements. I think there’s real potential there” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgLeFhP7J2c
When ICABS expressed shock and disgust at the statement, Lucinda Creighton tweeted back to say “It already is [developed as tourism product]. There’s definitely room for further promotion. Would be a huge boost for neglected rural economy.”
The reality is that, due to the appalling animal cruelty involved, Ireland’s tourism body Failte Ireland, has long since stopped promoting hunting. On its website, the tourism body makes it clear that “Blood sports including coursing or hunting are not promoted in any Failte Ireland publications.”
Any move to present foxhunting as a tourism product would surely damage Ireland’s international image – particularly in a modern tourism market where respect for the environment, wildlife and nature ranks highly among potential visitors. Our international image already suffers due to our government’s failure to act to ban barbaric bloodsports such as foxhunting and hare coursing.
It is appalling that Lucinda Creighton, as a member of our national parliament, would stand up in this day and age and promote such blatant cruelty to animals. She can’t be unaware of the barbarism involved – foxes chased for miles to exhaustion and torn apart by a pack of hounds when caught. And when foxes manage to find refuge underground, terriers are sent in after them to corner and attack them while merciless terriermen with spades, dig out the terrified foxes to brutally kill them. ‘
Running at 1% in the Polls , they will get it hard to warm up one of the back bench seats, should get that delusional bit checked out, she is going to look very silly in the count center, at the business end of things.
Lucinda’s responsibility is to herself cutely seeing her beloved FG partys support lose major ground during its government lifetime seized on the anto abortion vote out there and jumped ship to keep her relevant after GE16. Of course Lucinda’s other responsibility was to 199% push for her federalists masters as Minister for European affairs the passing of the Fiscal Treaty which binds Ireland to a spending cap of 1.5 billion per annum. That treaty handed budgets over to Frankfurt and Brussels to Mr Draghi and his political ideology. Now Lucinda is distancing herself from this absolute betrayal of every man woman and child in this country. Our Austerity treaty is her legacy . Sinn Fein or the provos as she likes to call them are in a very responsible position in the north were factions make it hard to get anything done but their politicking and getting it done. Meanwhile Lucinda steals other partys policys while slamming them and her Senator husband totally clueless to fatal foetal abnormality insults every parent in Ireland who has or could be a little tiny mishap away from experiencing it . Why is he clueless cos Abortion vote is a big vote they think and their rekying on that to build their party. Pathetic really. Thanks for the hands tied Austerity Fiscal Treaty Lucinda be proud .
she wasnt dithery and unsure when she and her husband stayed overnight in a hotel and both charged the taxpayer seperate expense bills amounting to hundreds of euro….
It is only now I see in the twitter photo above the not quite packed attendance at Renua’s tax symposium this morning in the Royal Irish Academy – 2 people in a room that holds hundreds.
On the upside – whatever about the questions as to Gerry – at least it can now be said that Renua were in the RIA :-)
It makes me laugh the way Lucinda expects anybody to take her and her ragtag bunch of parasites seriously. They alienated huge swathes of the population before they even had a name. Getting Eddie Hobbs involved was PR suicide. I can’t see this rabble even getting one seat in the GE. Fairy tale is over Lucinda. Go get a proper job.
Ah, you’re back Rod. Did you find that evidence you were looking for that SF policy is directed by “the army council”? Stick it up for everyone to read here like a good man.
tyrone subject, did you find the part in the GFA where you accept the queen as your head of state? Remember as you put yourself, we cannot pick and chose in relation to the GFA
The journal should be more concerned with hackers who have compromised the site, surely it is a cyber crime to have infiltrated a media organisation, is data belonging to its readers safe from these criminals who are trying to influence proceedings illegally. Did they notify the Gardai to this breach, how safe is the readership from these cyber scourges.
Mr phil. It depends on who the hackers are now if they were from a certain political party you can be sure the gardai would be knocking on their doors in the early morning if you know mean.
Ray, from what I hear hacking is not hard to do, professional hackers will break in but just look around and not touch anything, it’s the amateurs who start fooling around that leave fingerprints so they should be identifiable. No doubt they stuck around on the threads to gloat about their handiwork so there should be evidence linking them to this cybercrime.
Sinn Féin are “not ready for government”, says leader of a nine month old political party with no elected representatives at any level elected as a Renua candidate.
Last thing SF want is to be in government it would be nightmare for them Imagine Mary Lou as minister for health having to defend 300 people on trolleys Where would she find more money for health as SF have promised to get rid of property tax water tax and USC
I know one person who was going to vote renua. It didnt take much covincing that it was a bad idea after said person saw lucinda’s vincent browne appearance. Shes a complete moron and if elected will just prop up fg.
The party reminds me of a dog from a puppy farm.. Cute and cuddly on the outside but the inbreeding has left the poor thing half mad and dangerously vicious… Best to just put it out of its misery.
I don’t trust her one iota, she’d hang you given the chance, and I wouldn’t be surprised if her and enda had a deal whereas she leaves fine gael under the pretext of whatever in order to start a new party to go into partnership with fine gael,
Oh noes, the legion of mary wing of FG don’t want to do business with the largest party on the left.
STOP PRESS!!
(Incidentally, whats the story with the headline? If it’s a quote from Creighton, it should be in quotation marks. If it is a construct of words used by Creighton, the quoted words should be in quotes)
Is it just me or does Lucinda Creighton get an inordinate amount of air time for a representative of a new party with no political clout whatsoever?
She’s on every political talk show, RTE, Vincent Browne, radio, newsprint,……
And to be honest I still haven’t a clue what she stands for..except ‘small and medium sized businesses’
Can’t see Gerry and Mary Lou losing to much sleep. At least she conceds Sinn Fein could be in a position to form a government by coming out with this statement.
Renua calling another party ‘attention seeking’? (though in a sense, all parties need attention to get votes).
Lucinda is mental. Only the media keep her little vanity project afloat, no one in the real world cares, let alone would consider voting for them.
The North has been transformed since SF entered government, if things keep moving in the direction that there heading it will be a very prosperous place in the future.
“Creighton said that her party was not interested in potential coalition talks with a party that has been closely aligned with the IRA in the past.
However in an interview with TheJournal.ie in June, the former Fine Gael minister appeared to rule out coalition with just about every party:”
Is that because they have all been associated with one phase of the IRA or another e.g. Fine Gael (Pre-Treaty IRA and Post Treaty murder gangs), Fianna Fail (Pre and Post Treaty IRA, Labour (Official IRA and other splinter groups including Maria Cahill’s dissident group, Republican Network for Unity).
I’m sure they’ll accomplish more than United People .. a party of total irrelevance and sole existence is to abuse all other public figures on social media. Pathetic Jeff
Political Parties are just private clubs, financial predators who pass laws to max your tax in their own and lobby interests. Fine Gael / Labour passed a law to allow Revenue to take the LPT from your pay or pension without consent or right of appeal making the State (themselves) dangerously more powerful than the citizen.
Renua seems to be the only political party with the guts to take on the bloated, overpaid and underworked civil service and public sector administrators (many of whom are reading this comment as they don’t have much to do at ‘work’).
They will hopefully get in as a junior coalition partner and prevent the coming robbery of the taxpayer by the unions.
You poor deluded eejit Cal !! Ruinua will be going the way of the dodo after the election .. And not before time.. A shower of holy Joe dinosaurs who want to take us back to 1950s ireland…
Hay, Renua is made from the same cloth as F.G. as P.D. were made from the same cloth as F.F. were made of, and we all know what the P.D’s did?
P.D’s now means Poor Dopes…
Is this Renua’s election policy to condemn S.F. from now on rather to explain their policies or will they just copy and pastes F.G’s? As usual…
Phew! That’s a relief.
I dreamed last night that Renua and the Shinners had formed a coalition government. What a nightmare.
Now I know I was only dreaming. Thank you Lucinda and Pearse for clearing that up.
I can rest easy.
Renua = Fine Gael with rosary beads ,all we need, another right wing party like F.G. .F.F, Labour to look after the wealthy ,Renua T.Ds ? will rejoin Fine Gael under a new leader or go into the dust of history like the P.Ds
I love when college dropouts like Pearse Doherty talk to the nation about its financial and economic needs. Anyone who has failed an engineering degree twice and never worked in the sector in their life should be listened to very carefully on such matters. In the imortal words of Gerry Adams, when asked how he planned to pay for his parties outlandish tax cuts and expenditure increases ….. “Economics”.
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