Never forget....

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Why is he even allowed to still post on here ?? he's a wum and a kopite, takes great pride in the fact his club's fans murdered 39 people at Heysel and yet he has not an ounce of empathy, preferring to deflect and point the finger at others, to quote a phrase once posted on here, "He is a hollocaust of a poster"

Absolutely, he's already been warned once that this is a memorial thread and yet he's still allowed to post this utter wank?

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

I’d like to apologise to the GOT team for previously stating there is little mention on here of any aspects of racism at the club. Just came across this excellent piece.

“Everton are white”: Everton, racism, and the era of change - Grand Old Team

Even with 2020 ravaged by a global pandemic, the perennial disease of racism has managed to rear its ugly head, once again. With the world currently taken aback by the abhorrent murder of George Floyd and the scenes of transnational protests catalysed by his death, I have recently found myself...

www.grandoldteam.com

I had learned almost everything from other sites of the club and hadn’t seen this. Now I could be wrong about this also but the hooligan aspect (which of course ties in with racism) I don’t think has been sufficiently covered, certainly not enough hence the ignorance or whitewashing displayed by many of the posters. The “English disease” as it was famously dubbed was rampant throughout every club in the land. I’ve referenced the reputation the club had for hooliganism as early the 1960s and the “lunatic fringe” who frequented Goodison. Here is another first for the club: referee taking the players off the pitch and also threatening to abandon the game.

‘The battle of Goodison’ at 50: 1964, Everton and Leeds lose their manners and tempers

For the first time in a league match a referee walked off the pitch because of violent play. Too much money is ruining the game, said football authorities

www.theguardian.com

“A ‘spine-chilling’ encounter was how Jack Archer, a reporter for The People, describe Everton’s match against Leeds in 1964 - a game that saw a player sent off in the fourth minute following a chest-high tackle, two players felled after a clash of heads and fans warned for spitting at players.

Such was the hostility the referee, in a first for an English league game, marched both teams off the pitch so that the players and fans could cool down. When the enforced ten-minute break ended, a tannoy announcement warned that any further crowd trouble could see the game abandoned.

Although the First Division match was completed - Leeds winning 1-0 - mounted police then had to disperse angry fans from the streets around Goodison.

Even in an era when bloodcurdling tackles and unruly behaviour were common, the level of violence shocked the public. The match led to a period of reflection but not before the national press had its say.

An ‘unhappy day for English football’ was how the Observer’s John Arlott described it. Brian Crowther, match reporter for the Guardian, went further, blaming the players for their ‘collective irresponsibility’, the fans for their ‘disgusting behaviour’ and the referee for ‘not being firm enough.’”


Just remembered the name of the author that wrote the book on diverging racial tolerance. James Q. Whitman (Hitler’s American model). He briefly covers it in this article,

American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners

With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country's awkward history of ties to Nazism

www.timesofisrael.com

“As for comparisons to modern times, Whitman said he holds little hope “that the US will ever show much willingness to learn from foreign models,” he said about race relations.

“If Americans were willing, though, there are certainly things they could learn from contemporary Europe, and maybe from Germany in particular,” Whitman told The Times of Israel.

“That’s not because there are no problems with regard to race and immigration in Europe. Far from it. It has more to do with the Western European commitment to norms of human dignity, which stands in the way of the worst political abuses,” said Whitman, referring to what he views as the US and Europe’s diverging criminal justice systems.”

This is a memorial thread for the 39 Italians fans murdered by your scum fans. You've already been warned not to fill it up with crap like this. How about you acknowledge the tragedy rather than this relentless whataboutery?

 

[Blueboy57]

I’d like to apologise to the GOT team for previously stating there is little mention on here of any aspects of racism at the club. Just came across this excellent piece.

“Everton are white”: Everton, racism, and the era of change - Grand Old Team

Even with 2020 ravaged by a global pandemic, the perennial disease of racism has managed to rear its ugly head, once again. With the world currently taken aback by the abhorrent murder of George Floyd and the scenes of transnational protests catalysed by his death, I have recently found myself...

www.grandoldteam.com

I had learned almost everything from other sites of the club and hadn’t seen this. Now I could be wrong about this also but the hooligan aspect (which of course ties in with racism) I don’t think has been sufficiently covered, certainly not enough hence the ignorance or whitewashing displayed by many of the posters. The “English disease” as it was famously dubbed was rampant throughout every club in the land. I’ve referenced the reputation the club had for hooliganism as early the 1960s and the “lunatic fringe” who frequented Goodison. Here is another first for the club: referee taking the players off the pitch and also threatening to abandon the game.

‘The battle of Goodison’ at 50: 1964, Everton and Leeds lose their manners and tempers

For the first time in a league match a referee walked off the pitch because of violent play. Too much money is ruining the game, said football authorities

www.theguardian.com

“A ‘spine-chilling’ encounter was how Jack Archer, a reporter for The People, describe Everton’s match against Leeds in 1964 - a game that saw a player sent off in the fourth minute following a chest-high tackle, two players felled after a clash of heads and fans warned for spitting at players.

Such was the hostility the referee, in a first for an English league game, marched both teams off the pitch so that the players and fans could cool down. When the enforced ten-minute break ended, a tannoy announcement warned that any further crowd trouble could see the game abandoned.

Although the First Division match was completed - Leeds winning 1-0 - mounted police then had to disperse angry fans from the streets around Goodison.

Even in an era when bloodcurdling tackles and unruly behaviour were common, the level of violence shocked the public. The match led to a period of reflection but not before the national press had its say.

An ‘unhappy day for English football’ was how the Observer’s John Arlott described it. Brian Crowther, match reporter for the Guardian, went further, blaming the players for their ‘collective irresponsibility’, the fans for their ‘disgusting behaviour’ and the referee for ‘not being firm enough.’”


Just remembered the name of the author that wrote the book on diverging racial tolerance. James Q. Whitman (Hitler’s American model). He briefly covers it in this article,

American laws against ‘coloreds’ influenced Nazi racial planners

With neo-Nazis and white supremacists violently protesting in Charlottesville, Virginia, echoes of the country's awkward history of ties to Nazism

www.timesofisrael.com

“As for comparisons to modern times, Whitman said he holds little hope “that the US will ever show much willingness to learn from foreign models,” he said about race relations.

“If Americans were willing, though, there are certainly things they could learn from contemporary Europe, and maybe from Germany in particular,” Whitman told The Times of Israel.

“That’s not because there are no problems with regard to race and immigration in Europe. Far from it. It has more to do with the Western European commitment to norms of human dignity, which stands in the way of the worst political abuses,” said Whitman, referring to what he views as the US and Europe’s diverging criminal justice systems.”

You do realize that highlighting the misdemeanours of other fans in no way shape or form affects the bottom line here. Which is Liverpool fans were responsible for the deaths of 39 people at a football match. Sadly, it's something you have to accept, just in the same way the families of those who lost loved ones have to.