Bridgend_bluebird wrote:Jock wrote:Sneggyblubird wrote:Jock wrote:Jimmy Scoular wrote:Nasty club with an extremely dubious history. When I lived in London in the late 70's popped along quite a few times Bulldog openly on sale by the National Front with numerous vendors knocking out their bile. Witnessed on several occasions "Gas, gas the yids" a common refrain from their supporters. One interesting fanzine at the time was a Triumvirate rag espousing right wing agendas.The three clubs associated Chelsea,Rangers and Linfield of Northern Ireland.In the 80's we saw a significant Chelsea involvement in right wing agendas.Combat 18 was one such example where people involved themselves.One glaring example was the politically motivated riot in Dublin in 1995.It has not gone away but simmers away to this day.
The Fanzine was called The Blues Brothers and sold about 7 copies, at the time I wrote regularly for No1 zine and occasionally for Follow Follow both sold by the 10s of thousand. BTW the only club in the U.K. that has real problems with anti Semitism is Celtic where a Jewish player and director have suffered vile abuse from their own fans. Ultimately issues like racism or anti semitism are societal problems that shouldn’t be layed at the door of any football club.
You've got a point but I've yet to hear anyone blame a football club for racism but as any right wing recruiter will tell you can't get any better place than a football match for possible new blood so I guess thats where the battle lines will be drawn.I do agree that individual clubs should not be fined as long as they can show they are doing everything possible for their part.
I’ve onlyever met one Rightwing recruiter,a Scottish guy who lived in Bristol and travelled up to Ibrox on our bus once. He was told he would not be welcome again and didn’t recruit anyone. Never came across any racism watching Cardiff....unless you consider singing England is full of s#,t to be racist?
Singing England is full of shit is more xenophobic then racist. But then were the sheepshaggers so swings and roundabouts.
Don’t believe it’s even xenophobic just banter and pisstake. People can’t wait to take offence today, tragic really.