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What’s the story there? Didn’t realise he hated us. Really thought he was destined for better things for a while when he was with us as he looked so good at times.
Might have imagined it all in a fever dream but pretty sure he doesn’t have a nice word to say about us - may be suggestions he felt somewhat racially abused during/after his time here. Again, apologies if I’ve made all that up but I seem to recall something of that nature.
Supposedly when he was at Bolton and they played us at the Lane.
Never knew that, we can give players stick so I’d believe him in that respect. Racist abuse from Blades fans to him? Not buying that for one minute. But if he doesn’t like us fuck him
Never played for Wales
I saw racist abuse against a Southend player in 1996 and this old bloke racially abusing Gus Uhlenbeek in 2000, so I can well believe Blake got racial abuse when he scored against us for Bolton in 1996.Never knew that, we can give players stick so I’d believe him in that respect. Racist abuse from Blades fans to him? Not buying that for one minute. But if he doesn’t like us fuck him
As I recall he got 'you fat bastard' and mistook 'fat' for 'black'. I guess in those days there was no real way of setting the record straight. He may have got racist abuse from individuals, which is obviously abhorrent, but unfair and inaccurate to label the entire fanbase.
Don’t doubt it mate, we have the odd bad apple like every team. Seen it on a couple of occasions myself but fellow Blades quickly stepped in and stamped it out with the mouthpiece thankfully. But when I saw the post about racist abuse and him hating us I took that as though it wasn’t a single person but more to it than that, maybe sustained racist abuse from our fans which is why I doubted it because Blades fans would not tolerate it. Anyway reading that articles above Blake doesn’t mention anything about racist abuse, just that he got abuse… more than likely called things like a fat lazy bastard which some of my mates would often call him, me personally I thought he was great for us tbh.
The Southend incident was interesting in that people turned on the abuser. Which was the first time I'd ever seen that. In the 80s, racial abuse was just accepted. Every opposition black player got the monkey noise treatment from the kop and no one said anything.
Yeah as I said on the couple of occasions I’ve personally witnessed it it was very quickly stamped out by fellow Blades thankfully, our support is great for things like that. But I have to say this is from the mid 80s to the present day. Before that it is a very different kettle of fish, when you had acceptable racist programmes on TV it was then pretty normal to be in every part of life especially football terraces.
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