Racist Blackpool Fans

[cannedheat]

I've rarely been prouder to support Brighton than on that day. Showed our true spontaneous anti-racisim colours in a witty and probably far too subtle way for the opposition fans.

*might have been Leeds?

You were not at the Priestfield when we played Chester first season? we were there , would not have puffed your chest out with pride that day.

 

[m20gull]

For how long have the Blackpool fans been banned from attending matches?

Of the nine, two were for racist abuse. The bans seem to be minimum 12 months but are only the club's ban, the criminal ban dependent on a successful prosecution presumably.

 

[blue'n'white]

Considering Blackpool is so classy, Im surprised at the low rent fans they have.

I assume you're being ironic here !

 

[Dandyman]

well i'm sure yes ... but i have always thought that working class londoners had always aspired to leave the parts of london which now have high immigrant populations (i'm thinking east end, wembley etc) after the slum clearances up to to the early 60's.

london has a far more advanced perspective on immigrants and racial tolerance (their race riots around 30 years ago?) i would think.

in parts of the north there are still factors in place that will cause social tension - some of these factors have been in place for decades (think un-employment, low standard of living, urban DEgeneration) - i used to have very strong roots with Bradford and it's not particularly pleasent how the asians have spread through communities - Bradford has always been an immigrant town with Irish, German and post war Polish, Ukrainian and Yugolavs/Slavs living in relative harmony and estbalishing themselves whilst integrating with the english.

i don't have the answers and it's horrible to see old biggots spouting rubbish from the Daily Mail but unless you've lived in Bradford, Burnley, Oldham etc then TRY and at least understand why they are angry.

please no 'thumbs up' smiley's from our more right-thinking posters on here like last time i posted, and i don't want this to sound like a BNP leaflet - i'm just urging objectivity on these matters.

It rather depends on what people are getting angry about. My paternal grand-father was born in Whitechapel when it was full of Jewish refugees from Tsarist Russia. Before him the area provided a refuge for Hugenots fleeing Roman Catholic persecution in France, more recently the area has been home to Bangladeshis and Pakistanis.

The real issue IMO is not setting working people from different ethnic groups or religions against each other but recognising our common interests in the same way the dockers and textile workers of the East End once did and many communities that I know in London still do.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

About 10 years ago I took my eldest son to watch Stranraer v Berwick Rangers when we were on holiday at my Mum's. After the match the Stranraer fans began shouting at the small contingent of Berwick fans "You bunch of English bastards" as we left the ground. The few police officers on duty were all smiling at this remark. I turned to a guy in his fifties and said that the Berwick fans weren't really English because of their accents and that I was a proper Englishman to which he replied " Aye , ken , it was a wee bit of banter nae offence !!"

 

[dougdeep]

It's easy to be non-racist when all of your neighbours are white.

 

[Dandyman]

It's easy to be non-racist when all of your neighbours are white.

Mine are Black, Asian, Chinese and Turkish. Oddly enough I still regard racism as the response of the uneducated and the moronic.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

It's easy to be non-racist when all of your neighbours are white.

My next door neighbours are Asian.

 

[clapham_gull]

It's easy to be non-racist when all of your neighbours are white.

It's also quite easy to be non racist when your neighbours aren't.

In fact (from my experience) I would argue the complete opposite of what you've just said.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Mine are Black, Asian, Chinese and Turkish. Oddly enough I still regard racism as the response of the uneducated and the moronic.

you're just being nice

 

[unnameable]

Mine are Black, Asian, Chinese and Turkish. Oddly enough I still regard racism as the response of the uneducated and the moronic.

As opposed to the hyper-educated Oxbridge types who have forced mass immigration on a population that neither wanted it nor asked for it?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Forced?

It is what you get when you offer a decent quality of life and competitive wages.



Neither wanted it or asked for it?

I think you would find (one example) that our health service would collapse without immigration.

 

[sten_super]

Forced?

It is what you get when you offer a decent quality of life and competitive wages.



Neither wanted it or asked for it?

I think you would find (one example) that our health service would collapse without immigration.

Yes BoF, forced. It definitely isn't an EU law that there must be freedom for people to move wherever they want within the EU, and it definitely wasn't an EU wide decision to allow the eastern european countries like Poland in. It's all Tony Blairs fault.

 

[Napper]

Talking of race issues , interesting to see there is a black music festival or black music awards or something coming up

dont think it should be allowed personally seeing as a white equaivalant would cause major problems

 

[RM-Taylor]

ignore

 

[unnameable]

Yes BoF, forced. It definitely isn't an EU law that there must be freedom for people to move wherever they want within the EU, and it definitely wasn't an EU wide decision to allow the eastern european countries like Poland in. It's all Tony Blairs fault.

The NHS is starting to collapse BECAUSE of immigration.

 

[unnameable]

Forced?

It is what you get when you offer a decent quality of life and competitive wages.



Neither wanted it or asked for it?

I think you would find (one example) that our health service would collapse without immigration.

The NHS is starting to collapse BECAUSE of immigration.

 

[Spiros]

About 10 years ago I took my eldest son to watch Stranraer v Berwick Rangers when we were on holiday at my Mum's. After the match the Stranraer fans began shouting at the small contingent of Berwick fans "You bunch of English bastards" as we left the ground. The few police officers on duty were all smiling at this remark. I turned to a guy in his fifties and said that the Berwick fans weren't really English because of their accents and that I was a proper Englishman to which he replied " Aye , ken , it was a wee bit of banter nae offence !!"

Bit like our chants of 'you're Welsh and you know you are' at Hereford, Chester, Shrewsbury, etc then isn't it

 

[csider]

ignore

What??

 

[sten_super]

The NHS is starting to collapse BECAUSE of immigration.

Did you read my post before you quoted it? There is absolutely NADA that any (sensible) British government could do about the eastern european immigration, as we cannot stop europeans entering this country without pulling out of the EU, which would be FOOLISH.

I'd also be very surprised if the NHS is collapsing due to immigration. The majority of migrants to this country are economic, i.e. they are coming here because they can earn more money. Ergo, they are likely to be of working age, and in fact, working. The majority of people that earn a wage (and therefore pay national insurance) put more into the system (in a given year) than they take out of it.