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MP slams"foul language" from Col Utd training sessions
8:00am Thursday 20th September 2012 in News By James Cox
MP slams"foul language" from Col Utd training sessions
AN MP has backed complaints over noise and foul language from Colchester United training sessions.
Priti Patel, MP for Witham, raised the issue in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
She slammed the club for training outside of the hours agreed for its complex, in Grange Road, Tiptree.
Mrs Patel also said Colchester Council had failed to take action.
She said: “Residents in Tiptree have every right to feel angry.
“They are being subjected to disruption and foul language but the council are standing by and doing nothing to help.
“Parents are being forced to keep their children indoors because of the obscenities.”
Colchester United have applied to Colchester Council to extend its training hours.
A council spokesman said: “We have taken the alleged breaches of planning permission seriously."
Speaking via BBC Essex, U’s owner Robbie Cowling, accused Tiptree residents of lying about swearing.
He said: “I am astounded an MP would stand up and make accusations about bad language that are total nonsense and unfounded."
He said that the current training time restraints were mistakenly left in an early draft of the contract.
A meeting between Mr Cowling, planning councillor Tim Young and development services manager, Vincent Pearce, has been arranged.
Comments(9)
Goonerboy
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9:22am Thu 20 Sep 12
romantic
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9:40am Thu 20 Sep 12
Most kids know far more and far ruder swear words than their parents. When I played football as a kid 30+ years ago, we all swore like troopers, and it is no different now!
TheCaptain
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10:09am Thu 20 Sep 12
At least they don't have to put up with the sound of the ball hitting the back of the net or a dynamic manager encouraging his players.
Say It As It Is OK?
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10:15am Thu 20 Sep 12
Regarding swearing. The general acceptance of low standards seems the norm these days but swearing is still unacceptable to many people who don't want to hear it close to their homes. Robbie Cowling might have a different opinion if he was subjected to it at the bottom of his garden!
totallyfootball
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10:23am Thu 20 Sep 12
anotbot
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10:42am Thu 20 Sep 12
at fully grown men swearing.
:)
why, its not as if its a real game is it.
Ok, fun over.
FFS, men, boys, girls even, in competition, get the adrenalin rush when competing, and so get to do things they dont normaly do, or say thing they may never say to friends.
Ok, if its right at the bottom of my garden, I`d "maybe" get a bit peaved at it, but come on, swearing goes on on the telly, radio, just about everywhere.
can anyone help me out here, but was once swearing a way of life for ordinary folk way back in the middle ages?
Hate to say this, but modern day times, swearing is accepted, freely!
Lets take a freely available mainstream TV show that "Keith Lemon"
(Keith Lemon is a fictional character portrayed by English comedian Leigh Francis)
does, then just listen,
all on TV, nothing edited, weekly, unadulterated.
If its OK to transmit that show to millions, then just maybe half a dozen whingers dont count.
Re MP Patel,
whats she REALLY after from robbie c.
car? brown envolope? tickets?
Sir Bob a Job has done well of late too!
Goonerboy
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11:29am Thu 20 Sep 12
TheCaptain wrote:excellent !
Some what a waste of parliamentary time.
At least they don't have to put up with the sound of the ball hitting the back of the net or a dynamic manager encouraging his players.
Field Marshal Sprocket
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11:43am Thu 20 Sep 12
Disgusting.
Feisty CBC says...
9:13am Thu 20 Sep 12
Get real. Surely Priti Patel has far more pressing matters?