These are clearly boom times in the West Midlands,if not for the local football team. The midfielder Chris Brunt had to be restrained by stewards after being hit just below the eye by what photographs suggested was a 50p coin thrown from a densely packed absent end as he attempted to present his shirt to a young fan in the wake of West Brom’s FA Cup humbling at the hands of comparatively lowly Reading.“Unfortunately it’s the way the game’s going,” said the West Brom manager, or Tony Pulis. “Social media and everything else – it builds up an anti-feeling when things are not going well at football clubs. We’ve had a situation nowadays where a lad who’s played over 300 games for this club could have had his eye out. It’s just not acceptable and I hope the police accumulate involved. It’s barbaric.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com