The club must be doing thing behind the scenes on this one. Fully expect some random charge regardless of tonight now.
Why? That's not how it works.
UEFA relies on evidence before they move forward with these kinds of charges.
I think we can at least give UEFA some credit for that. They aren't just listening to FARE and blindly believing them.
I believe that they rely on video and audio evidence.
PLUS they also have been very specific on what is actually banned.
We are not allowed to sing any song with the tune of TBB.
FTP is banned.
Use of "19th Century Terrorist" is banned if it is in the context of an insult. As in, "19th Century Terrorist Bastard".
If this stuff isn't going on at the matches and there is no evidence of it going on then there are no "random charges".
Some of our supporters need to smarten the f*ck up about this.
UEFA has specific rules and criteria for evidence and in our case very specific things are banned.
There's no scope for some clown to say "they sang the hokey cokey" or "the bouncy is about jumping on catholic's heads" and UEFA to punish us.
Every goddamn thread on this kind of thing has some clueless f*cking scaremongering idiot saying "they'll just come up with something to hit us with".
NONSENSE. We got done at the St Joseph's game because supporters were singing the banned words and we got caught on camera. We got done in the away game against the Danes again because supporters were singing stuff that is banned.
It wasn't "random". It wasn't made up. People at the stadium on those two evenings actually did sing/chant things that have been very explicitly banned by UEFA and we got busted because there was evidence of it happening.
FARE are clearly clearly a bunch of corrupt and hateful and biased pricks BUT they aren't getting us on random made-up charges at all. On the last 2 occasions we gave then everything they needed to get us.
I would guess that with the Feyenoord game and "Sweet Caroline" we got away with it because their people who gather evidence were not in our end and so it was impossible to differentiate between Feyenoord fans singing "Feyenoord" at that part of the song and anything else that may or may not have been sung.