you've hit the nail on the head!

couldnt have put it better myself

yes spurs as a club and bolton as a club should be applauded but the way everyone is pouring on here paying tribute to both clubs and their fans feels like you're the only clubs who would do this type of thing.

I have to admit this is a decent article.....

It might of happened anywhere and yes the fans would of behaved the same, but nothing wrong in praising how the fans behaved

Not sure what point your making here Dawn ?

Most of the comments negatively labeling fans are just banter at best, attempts to wind-up and get under the skin of opposition supporters at worst.

In regards to yesterday, people are simply expressing their positive feelings towards Spurs' reaction to a very sad and potentially tragic incident. And such expressions are nice to see, because the way Spurs did react - from the fans in the stands, to the officials at the club itself - is deserving of such recognition.

As a medical aside, when Muamba is revived, I wonder if he will recall HEARING his name during the period when he was unconscious.

If so, then the chanting meant something.

Even if he didnt , it meant something

It showed the good side of human nature

I expect any decent human being would have felt the same as the Spurs support yesterday. My mum doesn't even watch football but she wouldn't stop asking me how the fella is doing and was visibly shaken after seeing it on the news. Was a truly shocking moment and put things in the right perspective concerning priorities in the game.

I agree. If the fans had reacted in any other way I'd have been disgusted. What you did last night is to be applauded but it is nothing special. Any decent human being would have done what the fans at WHL did last night.

Another side :

Is it correct that although there was defibrillator eqpt at WHL, if that medic had not been in the crowd, Muamba would have been in a far worse state ??

That medic might just have saved his life. It is now an regulation that all teams must have equipment and an ambulance in their stadium. It was initiated after Cech fractured his skull.

"That medic might just have saved his life."

Was wondering whether if he wasn't in the crowd, the other medically trained personnel at WHL would have done enough with the defibrillator to have ensure Muamba had a chance.

if that medic had not been in the crowd, Muamba would have been in a far worse state ??
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No medic got onto the pitch, he was treated by both clubs doctors.

As for the OP, lighten up you dullard.

The Spurs fans acted impeccably yesterday & you can't say definitively that it would have been the same in every ground.

They deserve the respect that they are getting post that horrific incident.

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"No medic got onto the pitch, he was treated by both clubs doctors."

So the "medic" that everyone is talking about, is in fact one or both of the clubs' doctors ??

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dont really see the point in this article.

as with all people there are some football fans who are good people, and some who are bad people.

yesterday at whl to our credit those of us who were there acted impeccably. however, who is to say that if it happened somewhere else there would not have been jeering or impatience? for example the league 2 game referred to above.....


anyway. lets just hope the kid is ok.

Hopefully it will make players realise that diving and feigning injury means we sometimes do not know whether injuries real. You can't blame fans for assuming injuries aren't as bad as they seem.

"When people slag off Spurs are Arsenal fans or fans of any club we are slagging one another off in a footballing sense. Nobody is implying that is people Spurs fans are indecent or Arsenal fans are indecent, etc."

But it can get unpleasant (the Adebayor/Campbell chants etc) .

"yesterday at whl to our credit those of us who were there acted impeccably. however, who is to say that if it happened somewhere else there would not have been jeering or impatience? for example the league 2 game referred to above..... "

That is true. From the moment he went down there was not a single audible jeer or boo directed towards him or anybody else. Likewise when Webb took the players off the pitch and likewise when the announcer said the game was off. That has to be commended.

insaneinetheparklane...

that is probably the most sensible thing i have heard in 2012.

players have to now look at that and think... playacting is just not on.

RDBD, my understanding is he didn't get on the pitch but did try. Apparently he was a heart surgeon or something but rumours that he got on the pitch are inaccurate. Gary Lineker said about it on twitter and the guy involved stated he did not get on.

So the "medic" that everyone is talking about, is in fact one or both of the clubs' doctors ??
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A medic attempted to get onto the pitch but didn't make it.

Yea RDBD, people go overboard with the chants sometimes but at the end of the day if that was Sol last night in the middle of WHL or Ade in the Emirates I would not have expected any different of a reaction.

"Hopefully it will make players realise that diving and feigning injury means we sometimes do not know whether injuries real."

Actually it means you are contemptible in the presence of your colleagues/peers when they are really injured.

I for one have a childhood incident that I recall with some degree of shame.

Are you people saying that you were cheering him from the get go.