Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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Would have thought by now if someone was sat next to someone at White Hart Lane on Sunday who was doing 'Monkey Chants' they would have come forward with a seat number by now?
Not entirely sure that anyone's done or even heard a 'Monkey Chant' at football in England since about the 1970's. Not heard that shit here for decades. PL Italian football tourist at Spurs maye? Last heard that shit in Italy Serie A only a couple of years back.
Seems to me that UK football is WELL ahead of the game, despite social media suggesting otherwise. Personally am pretty satisfied that the English game is doing just about as much as it reasonably can. And doing more than most. And have zero doubt that it ever even crosses the minds of the huge majority of fans to be racist in any shape or form in the first place.
Beyond that, seems to me it's down to those supporters around the racist throwback freaks to call them out/report them. Else they're just implicitly complicit.
Very little it seems is being made of the middle at the Chelsea goalie
Missile?
...starting to think he's maybe misheard a bit of booing perhaps. Would have found the culprit by now as the timing and approx location was very easy to pin down
Ah, the old Jay Rodriguez defence.
Not entirely sure that anyone's done or even heard a 'Monkey Chant' at football in England since about the 1970's. Not heard that shit here for decades. PL Italian football tourist at Spurs maye? Last heard that shit in Italy Serie A only a couple of years back.
Seems to me that UK football is WELL ahead of the game, despite social media suggesting otherwise. Personally am pretty satisfied that the English game is doing just about as much as it reasonably can. And doing more than most. And have zero doubt that it ever even crosses the minds of the huge majority of fans to be racist in any shape or form in the first place.
Beyond that, seems to me it's down to those supporters around the racist throwback freaks to call them out/report them. Else they're just implicitly complicit.
Very little it seems is being made of the middle at the Chelsea goalie
Not entirely sure that anyone's done or even heard a 'Monkey Chant' at football in England since about the 1970's. Not heard that shit here for decades. PL Italian football tourist at Spurs maye? Last heard that shit in Italy Serie A only a couple of years back.
Seems to me that UK football is WELL ahead of the game, despite social media suggesting otherwise. Personally am pretty satisfied that the English game is doing just about as much as it reasonably can. And doing more than most. And have zero doubt that it ever even crosses the minds of the huge majority of fans to be racist in any shape or form in the first place.
Beyond that, seems to me it's down to those supporters around the racist throwback freaks to call them out/report them. Else they're just implicitly complicit.
Very little it seems is being made of the middle at the Chelsea goalie
Commercialisation kills self regulation. If you do this monkey gesture shit in Sweden you'll get beat up and thrown out by other fans. Probably the same in most of Western Europe. Only way to solve this on the path England has taken is to go even further, like adding scanners that check your soul. Not dead inside, not coming in.
I heard on the radio today that the culprit had been identified by Spurs and banned.
Aye saw it on one report.....but as I said it seems very little has been made of it media wise..or am I mistaken
Aye saw it on one report.....but as I said it seems very little has been made of it media wise..or am I mistaken
I would guess it's just been overshadowed by the racism incident.