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forevertufc wrote: 29 Dec 2017, 19:47 The accusation of monkey noises is in this article..http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-42515442.

John Walsh says he heard this. I can only say, I was sat in the top row, with in touching distance of this group of lads, I didn't at any time hear any monkey noises, or anything else remotely racist. I also know SG was sat near the front, and in a very good place to hear/see what went on.

Not trying in anyway to downplay things here, but this is what happens when things are blow up out of all proportion. I along with my son and a friend were the last TUFC fans to leave the ground, on the way out had a chat with the Eastleigh stewards, who were first class, they said, 7 TUFC fans had been ejected from the ground, only 1 was for racism, and it was down to a 'polish' reference, rather than the colour of skin, the rest I presume were connected to the smoke bomb.

Southampton Gull wrote: 29 Dec 2017, 20:30 Lucy, I cover a lot of Category C high risk games and even with the Security surrounding those I can tell you it's nigh on impossible to stop these things getting in. I won't reveal why on here but it really is down to punishing those severely when caught. At the moment there's not enough deterrent to stop them taking these devices to football.

I think it's a handful of lads responsible and each and every club has such a group, in this instance I feel headlines were more important than the facts. Everybody heard the Polish reference, nobody near me heard anything remotely close to monkey chants apart from myself at the food hut

zebgull wrote: 29 Dec 2017, 23:04 Hi all, I am sorry to have to say that it's true. I have been a TUFC for 40 years and after the game I was so depressed at the behaviour of some 'fans' that I feel pretty disillusioned right now. In my book, monkey noises (twice in the first half, the second time clearly audible from where I was sitting but unfortunately I couldn't see who made them, and both times made at the same Eastleigh player taking a corner), and a group of lads at half time kicking, hitting and shoving a steward who was trying to restrain one of their 'mates', is not acceptable anywhere in society. Let alone seeing it happening at the club I love.
Add to that the racist chanting (I accept that people will have differing views on whether this was racist or not) and the flare, it isn't something being 'blown out of proportion', and just because some of you didn't hear it, I'm afraid to say that some of us did. I know also that someone else in the half time tea queue was blaming the stewards for the fighting so if someone has a different view of what happened I'm very willing to hear them out - I'm just recounting what I saw. If one of the lads in this group thinks that being 'hard' is attacking one steward with a group of mates, then take a good look at yourself. And I'd urge you to do the following; if you were standing next to the person making monkey noises, contact someone at TUFC with a name. I know you won't want to dob a mate in, and he'll probably be banned, but he's an idiot - and it'll be the best thing you ever did for the club you love - as a fan, and as a man.

brucie wrote: 29 Dec 2017, 23:21 Other respected posters have already stated that they heard nothing , yet you as a new user apparently heard racist chanting. Sorry but if there was racist chanting everybody would have heard it not just you.

Goose9 wrote: 29 Dec 2017, 23:55 Just because you didn't hear it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Stop being so bloody ignorant to the issue and hostile to those that are only reporting what they themselves heard. This kind of thing has no place in modern day football and certainly not at TUFC. We as the club's fans need to do everything we can to stamp it out.