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melreesrip said:
Some people go to watch football have a few drinks go home and not get involved with other people's rants what's wrong with that if you took up all the stuff what goes on and intervened there wouldn't be much time left to enjoy your day out
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What's a bit of casual racism/sexism/homophobia when United are at home.... ???
If that's how you live your life, then that's your choice.
I hope you won't start complaining when all the bananas i'm throwing hit you on the head.
 

melreesrip said:
Some people go to watch football have a few drinks go home and not get involved with other people's rants what's wrong with that if you took up all the stuff what goes on and intervened there wouldn't be much time left to enjoy your day out
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I,m convinced some folk, including some on here, go to football just to be offended !!! They wont be happy until its sanitised to death unfortunately.
 
RavBlade said:
I,m convinced some folk, including some on here, go to football just to be offended !!! They wont be happy until its sanitised to death unfortunately.
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totally mate they need to stop reading newspapers and watching the news just get on with their own life's ffs
 
Lazarus said:
What's a bit of casual racism/sexism/homophobia when United are at home.... ???
If that's how you live your life, then that's your choice.
I hope you won't start complaining when all the bananas i'm throwing hit you on the head.
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I would throw the fkrs back at you I hope I never sit next to you at a game or I might be tempted to intervene
 
That's what's wrong with today's society they have a new word "racism" to play with and apply to every imaginable scenario. If someone says oh I don't like Tiger or Hamilton someone will dive in straight away. It's the context in the way it's said that can make it racist, there's lot's of people I don't like and no doubt don't like me, but I don't run to police if someone calls me fatty or owt. folk nowadays are such sensitive souls.

Some things never change the younger fans won't understand why folk call Nottingham fans scabs, ten years ago I was in a bar with wife in Tenerife. I'd just got a pint & her half when I said to barman where's landlord he said he's out, he said he set up over here after miners strike he came from Nottingham. I put my fresh pint down, told our lass to do same and waked out, she said why you done that I said I won't drink in a scabs pub.
 
I won't be totally happy until racism/sexism/homophobia is banished from life for good.
Not just at football grounds, but everywhere.

What offends me most though, is folks on here thinking that folks such as me, are wanting to be offended. How on earth does that work?
 
Lazarus said:
I won't be totally happy until racism/sexism/homophobia is banished from life for good.
Not just at football grounds, but everywhere.

What offends me most though, is folks on here thinking that folks such as me, are wanting to be offended. How on earth does that work?
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melreesrip said:
I would throw the fkrs back at you I hope I never sit next to you at a game or I might be tempted to intervene
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Bravo! Bravo! So you would do the same if it was anyone?
By the way, I don't go to the matches, home/away... so you have no fears about that.
 
melreesrip said:
Some people go to watch football have a few drinks go home and not get involved with other people's rants what's wrong with that if you took up all the stuff what goes on and intervened there wouldn't be much time left to enjoy your day out
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I would say that should read, MOST people go to watch football. it always gets me when out of 18-20,000 thousand fans, 20 odd yobs kick off and every body who went to the game gets blamed for it. no it's not the fans it's just a bunch of idiots and do you have to be white before you can be called a racist ?
 
Nick Jansky said:
I think its become more vocal in public since the Brexit vote. The chemist in Oughtibridge, a very nice lady, was racially abused outside her shop by someone yesterday, and I’m hearing far more casual racism, islamophobia & xenophobia these days.
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I can’t really comment on that, as you can tell from my user name I no longer live in England. I just know before I left it was not acceptable to be openly racist, whereas in the 3 countries I have lived in after it is what I imagine England was like 30/40 years ago. It’s not perfect but I also don’t see any harm in acknowledging the country has come a long way.
 
bypassblade said:
folk nowadays are such sensitive souls.
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But.... you're not?

bypassblade said:
I put my fresh pint down, told our lass to do same and waked out, she said why you done that I said I won't drink in a scabs pub.
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I once did ten funerals in five days... after so many cups of tea and boiled ham sandwiches, I was waked out too......
 

No Lazarus I'm not a sensitive soul but I do draw the line if someone calls me summat I'm not, I'll tell you now I'm so grumpy Victor Meldrew looks like Mr Happy next to me. Oops just spotted me typo I'll put that down as a senior moment okay "walked".
 
Lazarus said:
I won't be totally happy until racism/sexism/homophobia is banished from life for good.
Not just at football grounds, but everywhere.

What offends me most though, is folks on here thinking that folks such as me, are wanting to be offended. How on earth does that work?
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Deliberate irony there??
 
Reporting of racism can increase (and all be true) even if incidents of racism are decreasing.
If 10% of 1,000 incidents were reported then 100 were reported. If reporting increases by 43% then 143 incidents were reported but out of how many? It could be 100% of 143, in which case incidents would have decreased by 86%.

I’d be happy to challenge any racism or homophobia I hear at the Lane, but it’s not easy to challenge it even on here. I pulled someone up on some casual homophobia in a thread about Jack Grealish a while back and it quickly descended into chaos, with some posters genuinely defending their right to use such language. Why people choose to dislike another person or group identified by a shared trait, and choose to use hurtful language I don’t understand.
 
SK10Blade said:
Really looking forward to the start of this season and i'd love to think it would be a great time to move on from some of the bitterness some people seem to hold towards some other fans.

The West Ham debacle was 15 years ago, the miners strike nearly 30. Portsmouth and Southampton still bring up a dock strike break from over 100 years ago.

In times where racism and homophobia is thankfully showing signs of lessening it would be great to think we could enjoy the football without bringing up old grudges.

I know some will agree, I also suspect many won't but i'm not going to let anything like this get in the way of me enjoying Saturdays.
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nah fuck that .. i’ve still got the blog on with Hadrian
 
Lazarus said:
Wonder what the percentage would be on here if asked......

If you hear or see what you believe to racist/homophobic behaviour at Bramall Lane on a matchday, would you report it to the Police?
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nah i’d knock the twat out myself. i suspect many others feel the same.. i haven’t heard racist abuse on the kop since Deano became legend
 
Lazarus said:
Sorry. That's so wrong......

Statistics gathered by anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out showed reports of racism in English football rose by 43% - from 192 to 274 - last season. This season there has already been four alleged incidents of racist abuse on the opening weekend of the EFL campaign.

It's increasing and it will increase again this season.
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Vested interests and I don’t believe it.

I suspect reporting has improved..

Racism in football is much lower than in life in general. (That doesn't keep people in employment mind).
 
Drop the hatred for a bunch of cockney bastards who were responsible (or certainly a catalyst) for the past 12 years... Definitely not. I hate the set of bastards. I'll hate them for life for what they caused. Getting a measly fine. Plus the beer round London is stupid prices. Even more of a reason to hate them.
 

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