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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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radiostar said:
Sorry lads but its 100% true. Call them out for Suarez/Evra, thier fans who have been done for racial abuse, the collymore tweets, anything. But dont then pretent nothing has happened our end.

And i was at West Brom last night, ive missed 1 game home or away in ten years. If you go the away games you would recognise me. Find me at any game to discuss it further.
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dont think we are saying its never happened our end - we are saying it doesnt any more, we wouldnt tolerate it if it did and certainly wouldn't wear commemorative t-shirts.

The tweets Collymore recieved were from vermin and deserve to be retweeted and followed on further & for the reds***e on here to suggest he deserves it because he is trying to 'goad' them is preposterous.

oh and Liverpool fans threw bananas and chanted at Barnes as well as I recall.
 
d34noj said:
dont think we are saying its never happened our end - we are saying it doesnt any more, we wouldnt tolerate it if it did and certainly wouldn't wear commemorative t-shirts.

The tweets Collymore recieved were from vermin and deserve to be retweeted and followed on further & for the reds***e on here to suggest he deserves it because he is trying to 'goad' them is preposterous.

oh and Liverpool fans threw bananas and chanted at Barnes as well as I recall.
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Agree mate. It DOESNT happen in our end anymore and thats great. But it makes me uneasy when some users get on thier high horse about it without knowing about our history. You cant point it out without getting called out for being a red.
Perhaps i shouldnt bring it up maybe, but i dont want us to be burying our heads in the sand about it while beating them with it. Maybe LFC should take note from efc how to turn the club around from those days.
 
d34noj said:
dont think we are saying its never happened our end - we are saying it doesnt any more, we wouldnt tolerate it if it did and certainly wouldn't wear commemorative t-shirts.

The tweets Collymore recieved were from vermin and deserve to be retweeted and followed on further & for the reds***e on here to suggest he deserves it because he is trying to 'goad' them is preposterous.

oh and Liverpool fans threw bananas and chanted at Barnes as well as I recall.
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If my memory serves me right, in Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tells how Barnes made his debut at Arsenal, and the away supporters threw bananas that day. described it as "an odd scouse welcome", or something like that.

Anyway, we have all moved on. Remember the chants at Bristol City in the 70s and 80s, and watching us away at Villa.

Was a different era, thank god.
 

roydo said:
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If my memory serves me right, in Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tells how Barnes made his debut at Arsenal, and the away supporters threw bananas that day. described it as "an odd scouse welcome", or something like that.

Anyway, we have all moved on. Remember the chants at Bristol City in the 70s and 80s, and watching us away at Villa.

Was a different era, thank god.
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Good post Roydo
 

roydo said:
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If my memory serves me right, in Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby tells how Barnes made his debut at Arsenal, and the away supporters threw bananas that day. described it as "an odd scouse welcome", or something like that.

Anyway, we have all moved on. Remember the chants at Bristol City in the 70s and 80s, and watching us away at Villa.

Was a different era, thank god.
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Exactly that mate - I remember us being known as a racist club as we'd never had a black player, probably down to a lack of good black players at the time rather than racism throughout the internals of the club but that was the tag that was bandied about.

Also could we all pipe down on the calling each other kopites? The ones in this thread are easily distinguished and good match-going (or non match-going) blues shouldn't be tarred with that brush.
 
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blue4eva77 said:
No way !!! Surely not, that can't be right
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True apparently. But it was so different back then. Like, for those youngsters on here, 25 and under probably, you would not believe what went on back then. Not just footie,but sitcoms, comedians, for example, routinely used phrases that would get you jailed today. Like mainstream BBC/ITV early evening programmes.

Doesnt make it right. But it happened. It was almost the footie "fashion" in those days, like silk scarves and "taking" the home end. And if anyone thinks any club did not do it, they are wrong. End of.
 
d34noj said:
Exactly that mate - I remember us being known as a racist club as we'd never had a black player, probably down to a lack of good black players at the time rather than racism throughout the internals of the club but that was the tag that was bandied about.

Also could we all pipe down on the calling each other kopites? The ones in this thread are easily distinguished and good match-going (or non match-going) blues shouldn't be tarred with that brush.
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Yeah, Hornby alluded to that as well, something like "Everton havnt yet found a black player good enough for them". Rubbish if he knew his history, but it was deffo a perception at the time.
 
Sadly roydo it's not even 'back then', I work In social housing and the stuff I hear on a daily basis makes my skin crawl, it's a problem that will not go away.
 

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