under what law though. I see no threat…

It doesnt need to be a threat in the UK. They could be charged with sending a ‘grossly offensive’ communication. Doubt they will charge them though.

This one seems broad enough to cover the tweets in question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_Communications_Act_1988

shouldnt be a crime, but perhaps the user should be broadcasted to the public along with their comments. their real names. in a public platform, if you say something atleast have the balls and conviction to stand by your comment.

I didn’t think he had a shocking game! Some of the players on the other hand!

The twitter abuse of the ref was vile. However I don’t need Mark Lawrenson or Freddie Ljungberg to tell me the rules of the game. I saw it with my own eyes.
Evans tackle was at least equally bad as Shelvey’s and Valentia must have vertigo the way he fell over.

I agree that the comments about the ref were totally unacceptable! But I disagree that the ref had a great game! I did take the time to watch MOTD2 and was disappointed with the analysis. The ref may have gotten the 3 contentious decisions u talk about right, but u fail to mention the 2 he got wrong imo. Evans two footed tackle should also have been punished (see Gary Neville’s half time analysis) and Saurez should also have had a penalty. There was more contact there than in the Valencia incident. And please remember that majority of Liverpool fans are true fans and don’t condone any sort of abusive behaviour! But just because we express the opinion that we think the ref had a poor game doesn’t make us keyboard warriors! LFC deserved something from that game and any true football fan would agree!!!

@Damian. Steven Gerard has said that the reason Valencia got the peno is because he is not a diver !!!! So what does that say about Suarez !! And that’s from his own captain !

A lot of people were watching through Liverpool tinted glasses. As a neutral I thought ref did well. I watched the MOTD comments and they were right. Evans played the ball and was going away from Shelvey who’s dangerous tackle caught the man. Red card correct decision. Suarez slightest touch went into Tom Daley mode, not a penalty. Utd penalty could’ve gone either way but ref was up with play and certainly couldn’t fault him giving it. Saw some really bad stuff from Liverpool fans on twitter, they really need to stop blaming everyone else for the mess their club is in.

Suarez is his own worst enemy that’s true. I wasn’t talking about him not getting a penalty.
I was talking about Valentia. Steve G should have said he got the penalty cos he wasn’t a diver, he is now.
Apologies, I don’t normally let PL results bother me but Sunday’s game and the result seemed extra harsh.

You do realise it’s two tweets and about 2 people who did aeroplane signs. Hardly enough to label as all Liverpool fans.
You’ll always get a minority of idiots on any side.

Never realised it was only 2 tweets and if I had read the LFC forums, not the papers, I would have copped that it was only 2 fans, ah well thats fine so.

It is an innate lack of ability for LFC fans to condone this at all, an excuse for it once again. I mentioned it on another forum that the minute United fans chanted about Hillsborough last week facebook was filled with lads on about “dirty sc*m”, “typical Mancs” “are United going to ban them all” etc etc, and plenty of United fans condoned it.
Yet facebook is as dead a door nail and when it was posted for these lads to now comment on what happened with the aeroplane signs, 1 lad fan commented, “Will United ban their fans”, thats it, no ability to look at their own fans.

If its happens to LFC then its all hyper about it, yet if LFC do anything its on the defensive straight away.

Aidan you are very defensive man for some against being defensive.

United fans got called out for their behaviour and it wasn’t a minority of away fans chanting, it was the majority.

Shanners – So someone making a point against LFC is been defensive?
It was reported that it was a couple of hundred United fans, so out of couple of thousand United fans, that isn’t a majority. Regardless, they should be banned, be it 10 or 1000 fans.
If no action taken and it will continue to occur, problem is the EPL is probably reluctant as every bum on a seat is money in their pocket.

And the guy at the FA with the same surname sits in the utd board.

These were twitter/keyboard warriors, 2 fools doing airplane gestures. I think it is pretty sad that very few united fans are condemning the few hundred chanting during and after the game. If the opposite happens at old Trafford I will be so embarrassed. It probably will but 2 wrongs don’t make a right

Here Barry, have a read, just in case that we get the blame for picking on LFC;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/9561203/Liverpool-advert-reveals-Anfields-delusions-of-grandeur.html#

Most older United fans I know are disgusted by these chants. But what puzzles me is the chants don’t just get wheeled out when it’s a United vs. Liverpool game, they get sung even if they’re playing Blackburn or Chelsea. SAF and the backroom staff can send out as many letters to the fans as they like, but when the likes of Neville and Giggs can celebrate winning a third Champions League by singing that lovely ‘Without Killing Anyone’ ditty, what hope is there for the knuckle draggers within United’s support?

@ Trisha
Every football Club’s fans have a bad element in them who have a choice selection of chants they wheel out for the specific opposition on the day!! You talk about United like they’re alone in this regard!! At least Giggs & Neville never thumped the head off anyone in a disco-bar on a Saturday night! I’m an Arsenal fan before you ask btw!

First time I’ve seen albeit broken into 3 separate words, fair play

Well one must apologise.. I pad a uto correct can be quite annoying, albeit an excellent function :-)

As it says at start, Man U fan….

Well although it’s morally wrong, what happens between two consenting adults is their own business & nothing to do with the football world! Personally I’ve always considered Ryan Giggs to be a model professional when it came to his football pitch behaviour! As opposed to certain Liverpool strikers who snorted imaginary lines of cocaine as a goal Celebration or their goalkeepers who took bungs!!

Is that Merson who did the coke thing? Oh sorry his lines weren’t actually imaginary.

@ Getard
Yes, Merson had a drug & drink problem! But he confronted with and dealt with same! While I’m not saying Fowler had such a problem with Drugs, at least Merson never ran his nose along a touch line glorifying drug-usage in front of 40,000-odd present fans & countless millions of TV viewers!!

You’re English writing would suggest your not of these parts? Just wondering.

Didn’t realise I’d stumbled into an English class. Dan is right about scousers always victims. Liverpool, Leeds and Forrest in second division it’s like a 1980’s acid fantasy come through.

While Mark Halsey, in my opinion as an LFC fan had a shocker of a game on Sunday, there was absolutely no need at all for the disgusting tweets that were directed at him. By the way, leave the ‘victims’ crap out; it does nothing to further the discussion.

I THINK Halsey doesn’t have a twitter account but was told about the tweets.