Every single day you can look down his mentions and see so called football fans tweeting racist comments to him. There are often references to his past to including an incident with a Swedish TV weather girl. An incident that happened over 15 years ago.
None of these tweeters were actually present went the said incident happened and yet they are at the ready to play judge jury and executioner.
To fully understand what happened one would have to be there and know the people concerned. I can only go by what the said people have stated themselves. I read Stan's autobiography a couple of years ago. Does he ask for forgiveness? No he tries to explain a situation that got out of control.
I will never condone assaulting anyone be they a man or woman, however I will not judge someone over one incident either. The fact that he has acknowledged his own faults, faced up to them and actually sought help is a positive.
I like many others though can be labelled as a hypocrite! Yes! That's right! Whilst I was playing the game regular (I played my last ever game last year in a charity match) I never thought twice about bringing down the winger who was giving me a hard time in a game. I received 47 yellows and 6 red cards (Two straight reds) when playing in the low level of the game that I participated.
One straight red was for 'nutting' a striker and breaking his nose and another where I took a left wingers ankle in a way that Ron 'Chopper' Harris might have been accustomed to.
It was on the football field you say! It was still violence against another player and something I'm not proud of.
I am proud to say that I can't be accused of being racist. I have Jewish ancestors and also many mixed race relations. Indeed my daughter is expecting her first child and he/she will be mixed race.
I do hold my hand up and admit that as a teenager I was homophobic to the extreme. This was cured when I was took to task by a woman and shown how ignorant and misguided my opinions were. Today, me and the wife have many gay friends.
Stan has a past, he has faced up to his problems and in my opinion is quite rightly fighting racists and homophobes. It's the clear that the right wing press have an agenda against him when the Sun has to wheel out a has been tv weather person to rake up Incident that happened 15 years ago. This the same rag that was quick to point the finger wrongly at Liverpool fans over the Hillsborough Disaster.
I hope that every single fan that has sent this abuse is delay with accordingly. There is far too much hate in society today. I hope Stan goes on to keep bringing the real footballing issues to the table too.
