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City supporters piece about Marlon King chants
This is a piece written by long standing City supporter and mate Neil White about the disgusting song being sung by some City fans at both the Leeds game and in Block 15 last Saturday against Palace.
In order that this song dies a death, we are also bringing Neil's excellent article which featured in today's CT in full.
"I feel sick to the pit of my stomach. And I can tell you that it is neither Coventry City's recent run of results nor the boardroom upheavals which have caused my nausea.
Yet again it is the motley minority of Coventry City fans who have made the bile rise.
The reason? The foul shouts in "support'' of their new hero - Marlon King.
I suppose we should have expected it. When you dance with the devil there is always a risk.
I suppose we should have expected it. When you dance with the devil there is always a risk.
But while I applaud the good play and welcome goals of King I haven't sold myself quite as easily on the former jailbird as some seem to have.
Because the Coventry Telegraph is a family newspaper I shall not repeat some of the chants which have been emanating from the Sky Blue ranks.
But, astonishingly, they not only suggest that the woman in the King case agreed to
to his advances but she positively deserved for him to molest her and worse.
Frankly their sexist words made those which resulted in the departures of Richard Keys and Andy Gray seem trifling.
I understand the "she said no, Marlon'' chant, which resonates every week from the opposition ranks, provokes response but I was perfectly happy with the repost of "he scores goals, Marlon, he scores goals".
Going any further is in ghastly taste and hardly reflects efforts which have been made by CCFC for many decades to become a club where all genders and races are welcome.
It certainly left me happy that my daughter, a former junior Sky Blue, no longer goes to games.
Equally, it left me thinking how ashamed I would have been if my wife, who sometimes goes to games, or my mother, who is a season ticket holder, had been at Leeds when these "songs'' were at their loudest.
But I have to ask, is it right that he remains at the club if the vociferous minority among our fans think it gives them tacit approval to utter women-hating obscenities?
Coventry City is a family club and, frankly, I would give up any Premiership aspirations for it to remain that way."
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