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So Didier Drogba is in the dog house for retaliating against football fans who pelted the Chelsea’s striker with coins after he scored against Championship side Burnley in the Carling cup. He got a yellow card for the incident last night, and the media have been giving the player a hard time with headlines like:

“Metropolitan Police to investigate Didier Drogba coin throw” – the times
“Police Probe Drogba Coin Throw” – Sky News
“Police investigate Drogba coin throwing incident” - Reuters
“Drogba is facing FA charge after throwing coin at fans” – This is London
“Chelsea’s Didier Drogba faces FA and police probe after throwing coin at Burnley fans” - Telegraph
“Drogba may face ban over missile” – ITN

Now I’m not even being remotely funny when I say, shouldn’t it be the fan who threw the coin at Drogba making the headlines for being a pathetic human being? What I’d really like to know was when did this become acceptable at football matches? It happens at almost every game, and believe me as someone who got hit with a coin once before, let me tell you – it hurts like hell.

Now, I’m not necessarily defending Drogba, he was wrong to let is emotions get the better of him, but at the same time, the Burnley fan/thug should come forward and apologise for making our footballing nation look bad.

The media have had a field day on the striker, and that’s not fair at all. I bet the fan in question is feeling one of two things right now. Hopefully he’s feeling guilty for being a stain on the underpants of society, but in reality he’s probably feeling proud of himself, as it’s the first noteworthy thing he’s ever achieved in his life.

The fact is that this hooligan’s team got through to the next round of the cup, so his throw at Drogba has even less significance. Surely in the crowd they must have seen ho threw it? Surely one fan from the crowd actually had enough guts to say to security point him out and say “he did it”, or is it like play ground again where the bully’s get away with murder because the nice kids don’t want to get beat up to.

How long before someone comes forward complaining that he/she was hit with the return throw of the coin? If that happens, then the media will tear Drogba to even tinier pieces. Drogba now looks to be facing down the barrel of a three match ban from the FA, but what good will that do anyway? Anelka’s doing pretty good on his own these days, and Drogba’s already said he shouldn’t have thrown the coin back.

Does anyone have a thought on this? Was Drogba right to strike back? What would you do if you were the FA? Ban him, or would you ban the fan from attending any football match for the rest of his life?

Ever since the Scottish National Party (SNP) gained control of the Scottish Parliament there has been an ongoing agenda to try and force through independence for Scotland, but will it ever happen? Do the majority of Scottish people actually want it?

The SNP have for many years been a thorn in the side of the English Parliament, using each and every chance to bicker and complain about funding, claiming that Scotland was a forgotten nation when in fact it is far from forgotten. Scotland is actually a very important part of the Union and while we see the banter between the Scottish and the English, they have been part of the UK for hundreds of years. So what has changed?

Since the SNP gained the upper hand in the Scottish Parliament they have used ever trick in the book to try and ridicule the English politicians. They are looking to replace council tax with a local income tax, but still want the hundreds of millions of pounds they currently get for ?council tax? from the English Parliament. They want to keep all of the income from North Sea oil, yet they also want to keep their massive income per head from the Barnett formulae. They offer free services for many Scottish people, yet forget that it is the English tax income which pays for these.

The SNP are a party who want their cake and want to eat it, they want to alienate the English and then claim as much money as possible, they are a party that recently changed the proposed ballot for Independence to include a third question in order to try and get a majority by the back door.

What a shame it would be if a party who have only been in control of the Scottish Parliament for a couple of years were to ruin the ?Union? which has lasted hundreds of years. Make no mistake, if Scotland decides to go it alone there will be no invite back into the Union at a later date ? that is one more safety net which would disappear forever!