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Father and son banned.


A MAN and a boy were found guilty of shouting "shocking and disgusting" homophobic chants at a football match.

Ian Trow trow  
intr.v. trowed, trow·ing, trows
1. Archaic To think.

2. Obsolete To suppose.



[Middle English trowen, from Old English
, 42, of Kingshill Drive, Deanshanger, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and the 14-year-old had pleaded not guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court to the charge of indecent chanting.

The charges relate to chants made at Portsmouth Football Club defender Sol Campbell during a match against Tottenham Hotspur Hotspur: see Percy, Sir Henry.

Hotspur

Sir Henry Percy, so named for his fiery character. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV]

See : Irascibility
 at Fratton Park, Portsmouth, on September 28 last year.

After a three-hour trial, Georgette Georgette

Mary Richards’ coworker and Ted Baxter’s wife; epitomizes gullibility. [TV: “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in Terrace, II, 70]

See : Gullibility


Georgette

Ted Baxter’s pretty, ignorant wife.
 Holbrook, chairwoman of the panel, found the two defendants had chanted "Come on gay boy, that's my gay boy".

Both Trow and the 14-year-old boy were banned from attending football matches for three years..
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Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:May 16, 2009
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