EFL on Quest
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2022 11:26 pm
I’m so appalled by what I have just watched on the telly that I have sent this email to the presenter. Nobody can blame Colin Murray for the drivel he has to front-up on Quest but I think what was shown was absolutely unacceptable. I will share any reply I get from him.
“Colin,
I am so dismayed by what I have just watched in EFL on Quest that I am missing the end of the programme to contact you about it.
Earlier, your production team rightly showed an idiot running onto the pitch in the Rotherham v Accrington Stanley game and upsetting the applecart. So when it was time to show the Morecambe v Bolton match, I expected the theme to be carried through as the utterly disgraceful behaviour of Bolton Fans – who ran on the pitch and got the game stopped – to be commented upon.
Instead, it was ignored altogether.
Instead, Clinton Morrison was given a platform to brand Morecambe as the most racist club ever. You may say that he didn’t actually say that – but he certainly did say that he would be reluctant to play for them.
He wasn’t there. He doesn’t know – any more than you or I do – what was said at the time.
But he has form on this – he wasn’t at the Ricoh Stadium either when Morecambe drew with Coventry City to stay in the EFL a few years ago. Then, he went on record to say it was a `stitch-up’ between the two sides. Any objective observer, however, could see that what happened was a fair reflection of the game.
I was there then and saw what happened.
I was there again today. I understand that what Clinton says about racism and his own experience of it needs to be respected. I have no problem with that and I am truly sorry to hear that he – or any other person – has had the experiences he has experienced during his lifetime.
But I do have a problem that this man is allowed to make totally unsupported accusations about my own fellow supporters which are absolutely not proven. I have written about Morecambe FC for years (shrimplythebestfootball.com) and the one thing I would say about our club is that it will not tolerate any racist or any other form of anti-social behaviour in the ground or elsewhere.
I have seen what our fans – who were thrown out of the ground – had to say about this incident:
Right for all you fans this is what really happened myself and Santa sit behind the dugout. After the Bolton fans threw a missle at our goalkeeper and ref stopped play there manager shouted it was a f....king disgrace whereby Santa replied your right mate you are a disgrace. One of their substitutes stood up and told Santa to shut the f...k up and obviously Santa told him to sit down and shut up he proceeded to then say to Santa if you don't shut up I am gonna come over there and knock you out He also told his manager that Santa was spitting at him which was a lie who then told the ref, who then told the security. The sub still continued to have a go at Santa and when I told him to shut up he said shut the f...k up you slag which was heard by everyone around us before security came to escort us out for no reason at all. Under no circumstances were we ever racist, never have been racist or condone racism in any shape or form and feel totally let down.
I have no reason to disbelieve them. But - again – I wasn’t there to hear what actually happened.
I thus make no judgement.
So why have your production team done so?
Why was the pitch invasion by Bolton `fans’ not even mentioned?
I know you do not have editorial control over any programme you are involved in Colin.
But I am equally sure – if you were me – why I feel so upset by a totally inaccurate profile of the club has been broadcast on Quest - without even a single opportunity for anyone at Morecambe FC to present a different view.
Perhaps you could in some way restore the balance.
All the Best
Dr Roger Fitton.”
“Colin,
I am so dismayed by what I have just watched in EFL on Quest that I am missing the end of the programme to contact you about it.
Earlier, your production team rightly showed an idiot running onto the pitch in the Rotherham v Accrington Stanley game and upsetting the applecart. So when it was time to show the Morecambe v Bolton match, I expected the theme to be carried through as the utterly disgraceful behaviour of Bolton Fans – who ran on the pitch and got the game stopped – to be commented upon.
Instead, it was ignored altogether.
Instead, Clinton Morrison was given a platform to brand Morecambe as the most racist club ever. You may say that he didn’t actually say that – but he certainly did say that he would be reluctant to play for them.
He wasn’t there. He doesn’t know – any more than you or I do – what was said at the time.
But he has form on this – he wasn’t at the Ricoh Stadium either when Morecambe drew with Coventry City to stay in the EFL a few years ago. Then, he went on record to say it was a `stitch-up’ between the two sides. Any objective observer, however, could see that what happened was a fair reflection of the game.
I was there then and saw what happened.
I was there again today. I understand that what Clinton says about racism and his own experience of it needs to be respected. I have no problem with that and I am truly sorry to hear that he – or any other person – has had the experiences he has experienced during his lifetime.
But I do have a problem that this man is allowed to make totally unsupported accusations about my own fellow supporters which are absolutely not proven. I have written about Morecambe FC for years (shrimplythebestfootball.com) and the one thing I would say about our club is that it will not tolerate any racist or any other form of anti-social behaviour in the ground or elsewhere.
I have seen what our fans – who were thrown out of the ground – had to say about this incident:
Right for all you fans this is what really happened myself and Santa sit behind the dugout. After the Bolton fans threw a missle at our goalkeeper and ref stopped play there manager shouted it was a f....king disgrace whereby Santa replied your right mate you are a disgrace. One of their substitutes stood up and told Santa to shut the f...k up and obviously Santa told him to sit down and shut up he proceeded to then say to Santa if you don't shut up I am gonna come over there and knock you out He also told his manager that Santa was spitting at him which was a lie who then told the ref, who then told the security. The sub still continued to have a go at Santa and when I told him to shut up he said shut the f...k up you slag which was heard by everyone around us before security came to escort us out for no reason at all. Under no circumstances were we ever racist, never have been racist or condone racism in any shape or form and feel totally let down.
I have no reason to disbelieve them. But - again – I wasn’t there to hear what actually happened.
I thus make no judgement.
So why have your production team done so?
Why was the pitch invasion by Bolton `fans’ not even mentioned?
I know you do not have editorial control over any programme you are involved in Colin.
But I am equally sure – if you were me – why I feel so upset by a totally inaccurate profile of the club has been broadcast on Quest - without even a single opportunity for anyone at Morecambe FC to present a different view.
Perhaps you could in some way restore the balance.
All the Best
Dr Roger Fitton.”