10:45, Wed 15 Oct
My Blue Heaven
Why do you assume it was a racist comment?

It seemed the most likely reason why two Blues players would both launch assaults on the same player who hadn't been involved in a bad challenge.
Neither Furlong nor Marsden were players I would associate with doing something like that without provocation. It was out of character for both.
We are talking about back in the 1990s. It is not like there weren't any players with racist views.

They were walking up the pitch, words were exchanged, then Furlong punched the Reading player. It was obviously for something that was said.
I suppose it might have been a personal insult.
Also Marsden deliberately elbowed the same player a couple of minutes later so he obviously thought was was said was unacceptable.
I don't remember either ever giving an explanation.
12:17, Wed 15 Oct
Yeah I was at the game and muscat wound up the fans and players all game and always did every game against us , O’Connor did that near on 90th min and every blues fan cheered when he layer one on him
12:26, Wed 15 Oct
Was this the game that Grainger chased him down the tunnel at HT ? Muscat shit himself. I've asked Grainger about it,Muscat wouldn't come out of the dressing room.
12:33, Wed 15 Oct
Furlong was sent off for Watford against us a few years before for a random punch at a corner. The game when Danny Wallace scored the winner for us.
14:03, Wed 15 Oct
I’d forgotten that!

I was in a box in the Railway via work that day. The wolves fans in front of us were an absolute delight. The Blues staff kept coming into the box to ask if we were ok. We obviously didn’t rile them 😗

I still chuckle as I remember hearing one of the Blues staff shout to a colleague in the corridor outside ‘You should see what they’ve done up Box 2’s window’. I never did find out.
15:16, Wed 15 Oct
I think muscat was just a mouthy prick

I’m not sure him being a bit of a thug means he automatically a racist one
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16:15, Wed 15 Oct
I wasn't referring to Muscat, but to the incident at Reading when Furlong and Marsden were sent off.

Muscat clearly grabbed O'Connor's nipple. That's why O'Connor hit him.
16:53, Wed 15 Oct
Gotcha , my fault for skim reading

Still though, I’m not sure why it’s suggested furlong has responded to racism, players wind up each other all the time
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