West Ham manager Sam Allardyce has backed the club's warning that fans who indulged in abusive chanting during Sunday's London derby against Tottenham Hotspur will be banned.
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This weekend's match will be the Hammers' first trip to White Hart Lane since a small group of supporters embarrassed the east London club in November last year.
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Just four days after a Spurs fan was stabbed in an apparent anti-Semitic attack in Rome, a group of West Ham fans chanted "Viva Lazio" and "Can we stab you every week?" while some hissed, mimicking the gassing of Jews in Nazi death camps.
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Allardyce, speaking at his pre-match press conference on Friday, said: "The club has made a statement so you will suffer the consequences if you do anything like that.
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"If they do it, I think that's very important that they are identified and they suffer the consequences.
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"We live in this society today so if you're made aware of what's acceptable and what's not you've got to be very, very careful about what you choose to chant.
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"If you're made aware of it and it happens you don't have any excuse.
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"My message to the fans would be: support the lads on the field and forget about everything else."
He has done well for the club so far so bigups to them.
Very good one!