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by **Rafa D** » Tue May 15, 2007 7:39 pm

Liverpool Echo

CHELSEA may be out of the Champions League, but a group of Reds fans say the club has their banner for the final.

The cheeky fans had gone to Stamford Bridge with a Uefa Athens 07 banner to celebrate the Reds’ place in the final.

But today they claimed a Chelsea FC coach took it and that England and club captain John Terry allegedly swore and abused them.

Supporter Paul Anderson, 19, said: “It was surreal. The Chelsea coach was going nuts and kept ranting and raving at us.

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“He jumped off the bus and snatched the banner from my mate, then he threw it on to the bus. Next thing he was chasing us and kicking out.

“All the time John Terry was shouting abuse at us. He seemed most riled of all. It was supposed to be light-hearted banter but they didn’t get the joke.”

The fans also said assistant manager Steve Clarke challenged them to get on the bus and reclaim their banner.

Chelsea FC said today the banner became caught under the wheels of the bus, and the coach confiscated it as he feared it was stolen from Stamford Bridge.

The eight-strong group of Reds took the banner to Chelsea’s ground, intending to take photographs after Liverpool FC’s game at nearby Fulham on May 5.

As they posed for pictures the Chelsea team bus drove past, and the Kopites launched into a chant hailing Liverpool’s European semi-final win.

Then, they said, the bus screeched to a halt.

They claim Chelsea skipper John Terry appeared at the door demanding to know why they had chanted at the bus then swore and shouted at them.

Edge Hill University journalism student Paul Anderson from Orrell Park said: “We were stood next to the coach watching in shock.

“Jose Mourinho shouted at John Terry to get back.

“Then Steve Clarke said, ‘If you want your f****** banner back come on the coach and get it.’ We were just laughing at them. It was partly shock and partly funny how mad they were going.

“They drove off then and we were just falling about laughing.

“Eight of us saw what happened and none could get over it.”

Fellow fan Danny Smith, 20, from Speke, claimed he was shoulder barged and kicked in the fracas.

He said: “They definitely took it the wrong way. The big Portuguese coach was running after me and kept trying to kick me.”

A spokesman for Chelsea said: “We dispute completely their version of events. The coaching staff thought the banner had become caught under the wheels of the bus and so they stopped.

“People had to get off the bus and try and untangle it. They took it with them on the coach because it was an official Uefa banner which they believed had possibly been stolen from Stamford bridge.”

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Quality that. SJD posted a story in Liverpool Games about this a few days ago.

by **NiftyNeil** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:14 pm

Do you know what stinks about that story? It's the fact that if the tables had been turned, and it was Gerrard et al attacking Chelsea fans, the story would be all over the national newspapers and Sky Sports News. As it is, this is the first I've heard of the incident - ten days after.
The papers love to stick the boot into Liverpool. Remember last years semi at Old Trafford? Liverpool "yobs" on rampage. No mention of sick graffiti on the way to Manchester about Hilsborough.
Remember Alan Smith breaking his leg? All the focus on a couple of mindless yobs attacking the ambulance - not the 40,000 true fans inside the ground applauding him off the pitch.
It makes me sick, fucking sick! :veryangry

by **Rafa D** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:24 pm

SJD posts about a week ago.#

Fu.cking quality that.

by **GOAT** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:56 pm

How do we know this is true, funny if it is

by **Rafa D** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:12 pm

Its in the echo tonight, and if you click on the link in the first post, you will see.

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