Gills chairman Paul Scally is seeing red after fans started chanting about his son's court appearance during a recent football match.

Shouts of "he only got two years" were heard coming from a few fans at the Rainham End during the Gills v Lincoln City game on January 27.

The chant referred to Scally’s son Max being locked for two years for breaking a 15-year-old boy’s jaw at an end-of-term party in July, 2007.

Writing for the Gill’s match day programme for the team's game against Bradford City last Saturday, Mr Scally described how he had to be restrained from going to the area where the fans were.

Mr Scally wrote: "You will be aware, because a particular judge made sure everyone would be aware, that my son Max was given a two-year jail sentence on the Monday prior to the Lincoln game for, in effect, throwing one unlucky punch at a party when he was 16. Naturally this has been a traumatic and shocking period for the whole family and the level of sentencing for the ‘crime’ is appalling.

"However, what was shocking was the chanting from a few morons in the Rainham end during the Lincoln game of ‘he only got two years!

"I can’t tell you how stunned I was to hear it from a section of our own supporters, and I suppose I’ve used the wrong word in ‘supporters.’ I hope the decent majority dealt with the situation and it’s probably a good job I was restrained from going to the area concerned as I may well have regretted my actions - but I have to ask what on earth would possess someone to behave in such a way."