{"id":466692,"date":"2023-10-22T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=466692"},"modified":"2023-10-22T13:29:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T17:29:50","slug":"man-city-to-ban-own-fans-after-offensive-chants-at-bobby-charlton","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-to-ban-own-fans-after-offensive-chants-at-bobby-charlton\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City to ban own fans after offensive chants at Bobby Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City will undergo an investigation to identify the people, who were heard doing offensive chants towards the late Sir Bobby Charlton during the team&#8217;s 2-1 win over Brighton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester City are appealing for information after some fans allegedly sang offensive chants about Sir Bobby Charlton, who died on Saturday morning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d3g78HHWdT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/d3g78HHWdT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1716111347006554190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Citizens issued a statement, where they strongly condemned the behavior and asked for fans to come forward should they have useful information.<\/p>\n<p>The club also stated that it is planning to ban the people, responsible for the act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manchester City FC are extremely disappointed to have learned of reports of offensive chanting from a small number of individuals about Sir Bobby Charlton in some of the concourses of the Etihad Stadium during half time of yesterday&#8217;s Premier League fixture against Brighton and Hove Albion.&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club condemns these chants in the strongest terms, and apologizes unreservedly to the family and friends of Sir Bobby, and to all those at Manchester United.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City will undergo an investigation to identify the people, who were heard doing offensive chants towards the late Sir Bobby Charlton during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":466693,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16826,21850],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18121,21851],"acf":{"announce":"The club have called for supporters to identify the people in question","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466694,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/466692\/revisions\/466694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466692"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=466692"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=466692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}