I'm just reading about the Chelsea fans booing Rio Ferdinand yesterday for no reason other than that he's the brother of the player John Terry allegedly racially abused. The Liverpool fans disgracefully did this to Patrice Evra as well just last weekend for being the victim of Luis Suarez's abuse. Now, I don't mean to slag off football fans - the ones loyal (or crazy?) enough to go along to every game, spend their hard-earned money and put up with the freezing cold and, quite often, rubbish football (in the case of Liverpool this season anyway) - because without them the clubs wouldn't exist. Banter is a fantastic part of the game and opposition players have been booed from the dawn of time. However, where I and most rational people draw the line is when loyalty to your club trumps all notions of right or wrong. For too many fans, that their team wins at the weekend is all that matters - everything else is secondary, including their sense of decency. Both sets of supporters (Liverpool and Chelsea) should take a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror before the next game and ask themselves whether this is what they really want to be.
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