Pathetically Apologetic!

When David Jeffrey falsely accused United fans of chanting sectarian abuse at his players during a C.I.S. cup game at Windsor Park on Saturday August 11, the I.F.A promised us a full and frank apology if the accusations proved groundless. After much dillying and dallying the governing body found no evidence of wrongdoing by our supporters, because of course there was nothing to find. The full and frank apology from Linfield manager David Jeffrey or indeed Linfield football club, has not to the best of my knowledge materialised. The I.F.A. statement read that Linfield and their manager were being 'warned' for not following correct procedure, that I am led to believe is the end of the matter. It will be interesting to see what sanctions, if any, are taken if their is a repeat of these incidents of not following procedure, I won't hold my breath. The Belfast Newsletter, who carried Jeffrey's original rantings, did print an apology exonerating United fans of all blame, but as the old saying goes, 'mud sticks' and I'm sure United fans will be closely monitored in future games especially at contentious venues. I'm sure most United fans recall the incident a few years ago when Roy McCreadie accused them of calling him by a sectarian name, a F----n Bastard I believe. It has since been proved that the Sky Blue choir were in fact calling Roy a 'thieving Bastard' in reference to the disappearance of money supposedly destined for the Omagh bombing appeal and not a F----n Bastard as he thought. Hopefully our fans will still be allowed to compose some catchy if not too tasteful lyrics, but with our governing body you never can tell. But let's be careful, is all I would caution, if David Jeffrey's wife wants to leave him, that has nothing to do with football and lets face it, we can get better songs to deride him as he's an easy target. Oh sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye, 4 and 20 Blackbirds baked in a pie and when the pie was opened the birds began to sing, 'Oh we hate Coleraine, we hate Coleraine, we are the Coleraine, haters' and David Jeffrey too!