Forget recent years.
I’ve been to the vile shithole that is Barrow several times in a non-league context back in the 90’s and early 00’s.
One of their fans lost a leg to frostbite when his car got stranded in adverse weather travelling to a midweek FA cup replay at Whitley Bay. For that reason we were always over the top friendly to them whenever they visited, as is the Geordie way. It was nobodies fault, just one of those unfortunate things. I’ve even seen us let their fans sleep in our clubhouse and travel back in the morning on midweek nights after a lock-in when they were an utterly crap Northern Premier League joke club. But when we went there for the return fixture it was always horribly nasty.
That’s why I posted
There are three types of Barrow fans, scumbags, apologists for scumbags, and some genuine ones.The latter in my experience are very much in the minority, and their club’s pathetic response to what happened last night is typical, as is the stuff you can read on twitter and on their forum.
I really hope Walsall FC don’t just accept this. After all we have a joint chairman that gets very hot under the collar and high and mighty when any player gets a bit of stick.
Lets see what he’s made of responding to this disgusting episode.