RIP John Steven Taylor

[ABBEY]

At half time ...by a bin thrown in the air? No idea it true..if its on somewhere else delete.

[Tom]

It was mentioned in the Stoke thread but I heard the same albeit only from the official board.

[brian_gallagher85]

True apparently, girlfriend is at the game. Hit in the head by a bin by all accounts. They had the defibrillator on him but to no avail

(It's in the Stoke thread Abbey)

[Tom]

Was it said if the bin was thrown at him or just up in the air?

[ABBEY]

My neff said in the air and he headed it..like I said hearsay

[Tom]

Tragic but why throw a bin around in the first place? Seems an odd form of entertainment.

[brian_gallagher85]

You obviously haven't seen a large proportion of our away following of late then

[booth]

You obviously haven't seen a large proportion of our away following of late then

Or the game.

[RibbleValleyRover]

I hope its not true and its just rumours. Certainly puts today's game well into the background if its true that someone has tragically lost their life. I also hope that these rumours about the bin are also untrue.

Edited February 6, 2010 by RibbleValleyRover

[Ossydave]

I hope its not true and its just rumours. Certainly puts today's game well into the background if its true that someone has tragically lost their life. I also hope that these rumours about the bin are also untrue.

it's 100% true

[brian_gallagher85]

Fans only getting out now from a seperate part of the stand, terrible terrible shame

Saying it's not true at all now on the official boards

Edited February 6, 2010 by brian_gallagher85

[T4E]

My neff said in the air and he headed it..like I said hearsay

I heard the same from an mboard member at the game, via the police at the game. Absolute tragedy if true, what a senseless waste of life.

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

Rovers fans attack each other on coach coming back from Villa and now a supposed fatality at Stoke?.....WTF is going on?

Edited February 6, 2010 by SIMON GARNERS 194

[Blackpool_Rover]

Rovers fans attack each other on coach coming back from Villa and now a supposed fatality at Stoke?.....WTF is going on?

Doesn't surprise me at all...i went to my first away game for a couple of years on boxing day and some of what i heard from rovers fans around me was disgusting.

Absolute disgrace.

[MarkBRFC71]

Just been on Radio Lancs that there will be an announcement at 6?

[philipl]

Absolute tragedy.

Why so senseless?

[mrsjansen]

Just been on SSN saying that he is critically ill and a 30 year old man has been arrested

[Iceman]

If true, thats so sad.

Edited February 6, 2010 by Iceman

[Blackpool_Rover]

critically ill..........this is absolutely disgusting. What the hell is happening to our club

[MarkBRFC71]

A man critically ill in hospital, someone arrested. In the Rovers end so the assumption is it was one Rovers fan on another? Terrible. At least he's still with us ....

[CrazyIvan]

I can honestly say I have never been so disgusted by fellow 'fans' before. I've never known a bunch of complete and utter morons following Rovers. I'll be picking my away games very carefully from now on and sitting at the back of a stand is a complete non-option. It gets populated by fans who drink beer in the stands, smoke, stand in the gangways and abuse other Rovers fans because they think it makes them look big. I watched one p'ssed up lad literally stand there punching the wall over and over just because Keith Andrews came on. Beer plays a big part in all of this and a tragedy like this is most likely all about p'ssed up fans having 'fun'. Some fun. A real tragedy for the family and I truly feel for them. A lot of true fans who have followed Rovers for years away from home have been openly saying they'll never go to away games again. All of this is a real shame when a little self-control might have stopped something like this happening.

Edited February 6, 2010 by CrazyIvan

[Guest Kamy100]

Hopefully the Fan pulls through.

I have stopped going to away games this season, went to a few earlier this season but to be honest I got spooked by what some of our fans were getting upto, not just the racist chanting, it seems that quite a few fans have started going to away games, they get drunk and just end up causing trouble. The last away game I went to I experienced racist abuse, female fans having to put up with allsorts of comments and fighting between our own fans.

Thoughts and prayers with the fan who is fighting for his/her life and with their family.

[MarkBRFC71]

Sadly, the increase in the number of braindead, moronic, neanderthal chavs fuelled by alcohol is symptomatic of society in general ....

Edited February 6, 2010 by MarkBRFC71

[Blackpool_Rover]

I can honestly say I have never been so disgusted by fellow 'fans' before. I've never known a bunch of complete and utter morons following Rovers. I'll be picking my away games very carefully from now on and sitting at the back of a stand is a complete non-option. It gets populated by fans who drink beer in the stands, smoke, stand in the gangways and abuse other Rovers fans because they think it makes them look big. I watched one ###### up lad literally stand there punching the wall over and over just because Keith Andrews came on. Beer plays a big part in all of this and a tragedy like this is most likely all about ###### up fans having 'fun'. Some fun.

There needs to be more effort, using cctv to find these trouble makers and banning them. They aren't welcome and there were probably a few real rovers fans who couldn't get a ticket. What is going on

[DE.]

First the racist chanting and now this. Shameful.

Very tragic, hope the lad pulls through, though it doesn't sound good.