Distasteful Nuneaton town tweet (1 Viewer)

paulw said:

Is this for real? I read this yesterday and thought it was a joke but now I read it on Monksies site. How embarrassing some fans make us feel about their sensitivity.

If they were poking fun at illnesses or death then it's understandable to be sensitive but to respond to a joke thread in this manner makes me think who these fans are. The most ironic thing about this is that these threads are true. We have no ground and this could be a league game next season.

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Yeah your right, lets just let anyone take the piss out of our situation, its really funny seeing our club destroyed.

[video=youtube;khhzSb0jCbs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=khhzSb0jCbs[/video]

To be fair he should have tweeted about the bus back to the Caluden Centre had arrived for them!

mark82 said:

It's a cheap dig. It's unproffesional for an official club feed really. Not sure it's worth getting upset over though.

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Too sensitive buddy
Maybe it was this chaps way of highlighting how farcical our situation is

mark82 said:

It's a cheap dig. It's unproffesional for an official club feed really. Not sure it's worth getting upset over though.

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I remember after a drab nil nil draw against Swansea in the early 80's our tannoy man said "well you have a point Swansea but very few friends with that performance" - went down well with the visiting fans.

I think people are too nicey nicey. At the Ricoh the whole arse licking of away fans before the game etc wasn't right

Sky Blue sam should have been over there giving their mascot a good shoe in.

When they build the Sisu Arena I hope they leave the roof off the away section so it stops them making so much noise.

Terry Gibson's perm said:

When they build the Sisu Arena I hope they leave the roof off the away section so it stops them making so much noise.

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And puts spikes in their seats!

Is that video all that happened? Some of the comments on here yesterday made it sound like a mini-riot! Nuneaton would probably be better off looking at the standard of their stewarding rather than taking the piss out of us, doesn't look like much was being done to stop anyone getting on the pitch.

chiefdave said:

Is that video all that happened? Some of the comments on here yesterday made it sound like a mini-riot! Nuneaton would probably be better off looking at the standard of their stewarding rather than taking the piss out of us, doesn't look like much was being done to stop anyone getting on the pitch.

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I think everywhere has bad stewards nowadays, you would think people wouldn't be able to get near the pitch. Like the guy at the Crewe game at the ricoh it took about 5 minutes to get him off the pitch and was about 3 minutes before the Stewards even got onto the pitch after him.

The way I see it is that the bit between the barrier and the pitch should be no mans land, if you go into there you do so at your own risk.



Put some dangerous dogs in there too and it would be entertaining!

Nick said:

To be fair he should have tweeted about the bus back to the Caluden Centre had arrived for them!

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From the clip it looks like our special needs section .

Nothing much going on though ?

Deff not worth all the hullabaloo

Anyone know the author?
He really needs to lighten up. It is disrespectful to trash the pitch of a non league club.
The fans who were doing it would not realise that at the time.
But to start talking about fans who have passed away FFS.......

dongonzalos said:

Anyone know the author?
He really needs to lighten up. It is disrespectful to trash the pitch of a non league club.
The fans who were doing it would not realise that at the time.
But to start talking about fans who have passed away FFS.......

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I think that was a very good article and highlights just how insensitive a comment like that can be.

As the author says, those that went on the pitch were representing no one but themselves. The boro twitter account represents the whole club.

I go to the odd boro game and like to see them do well. I don't want to see a club I follow (albeit from a distance) acting unprofessionally. I've had enough of that with city.

Nuneaton Town have apologised to Coventry City FC and the club's supporters following a number of tweets from the Conference's side's club account which caused offence.
Nuneaton have issued the following statement:
During the pre-season friendly on Saturday between ourselves and Coventry City the game was stopped shortly into the second half following a rain storm during which the referee took off the teams for safety reasons.

It was at this point a number of spectators from the away section housing the Sky Blues' fans entered the field of play in contravention of the Football (Offences) Act 1991 which is punishable by law and can include a banning order for supporters. This can and does create many problems for both the home and away clubs and is not condoned.

During this time a tweet was made on the @Official_NTFC twitter account which did not represent the view of Nuneaton Town Football Club and was both unfortunate and unsatisfactory for both content and the reference of Coventry City not having their own ground.

Boro chief executive Ian Neale said: "The social media account is a more relaxed, information service for home and visiting fans providing information that could be of interest either by direct tweet or retweet. Club officials have personal accounts for providing opinion, but the main account is to provide factual information.

"It is unfortunate that one of our media volunteers expressed his opinion and that caused some upset among some Coventry City fans. We do rely on, and appreciate, the support given by volunteers but at the same time we trust the service is going to be fit for purpose.

"The tweet was meant for the supporters that had entered the field of play, however the message did cause upset to some Sky Blue fans.
"For this I apologise unreservedly on behalf of Nuneaton Town Football Club to Coventry City and its supporters.
"We have ourselves faced challenging times which were for our supporters very challenging and emotionally charged issues.

"I know from dealing with these difficult circumstances first hand know how much passion and emotion it can bring for fans.

"As a former Coventry City Associate Director, and a fan of all football, both the club and I would not wish to cause upset.
"We endeavour to ensure that we at all times provide a warm welcome for all our own and visiting fans at the club. I wish Coventry City and its fans a very successful season ahead and look to continue to develop the mutually beneficial relationship that has been formed over the last seven years.

"We hope we can all move on and get down to the season ahead."