Totally agree, but football chants on the 'terraces' at every football game are based on putting the opposition down by whatever means. Terrace humour is 'based on so many -isms', I can list them and if stated at work would result in disciplinary action
No one seems to get upset when chants are based on the referee or when questioning said official's parentage or similarity to several anatomical parts.
Offence has been rightly caused by the criticism being based on the sex of the official.
What is needed is gender neutral term (fudge me - pc really has got a hold) what have we come to ) for the fourth official and a the demonstrated lack of ability in their position
Obviously cod, prick and similar expressions are unacceptable, as are references to 'Lines' in the same manner of 'Chair' (God forbid!)
How about a blanket chant which has served fans for generations - THE REFEREES A BASTARD!
It's ok, you get a free pass because it's on the terraces and been said/sung before.
The first two words in my reply "Totally agree" surely state it's not ok, there's not a free pass.
My following words attempted to highlight that terrace/forum humour exists in its place
When a comment goes beyond the limits of the forum, then the poster gets flamed/posts, as has been demonstrated
If we are going to follow this line of political correctness on our forum then there are many, many posts that should be highlighted as being stupid, sexist etc