Something Not Quite Fair Here.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601166/Ex-Premier-League-footballer-guilty-allegation-homophobic-gesture-fans.html

/// Mr Allen said the Brighton and Hove Albion fans were chanting 'you fat b*****d' and 'you're fat and you know you are' at him. ///

This player was expected to accept these types of insults against him, yet he himself was found guilty of being homophobic before the Gay capital's football crowd.

/// Mr Reiz said that hand gestures were made during football matches all the time and that due to Brighton having a large gay community an innocent hand gesture made behind his back had been perceived as being homophobic. ///

[New Judge]

"Section 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act currently means that "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour" might be deemed a criminal offence. "

Not quite correct, sp. The word "insulting" was recently removed from the legislation. From 1st February it has not been illegal to insult somebody:

http://reformsection5.org.uk/news/

Apart from that I'm quite in agreement with Mikey and TTT - football "fans" and players need to grow up. Apparently many of the people involved in this incident were the wrong side of 40 - old enough to know better than to behave so childishly. "The Beautiful Game?" I think not.