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The bomb shelter thread.

Newcastle are getting Saudi owners?!

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It's season ticket renewal time. Ashley is resurrecting the "it might still be on" story to flog a few more season tickets. He creates some story or other this time every year just to suck the fans in.
 

Lost for words on this one
Correction, the documentary that mentioned the violence committed by English fans (the hooligan element) is in The United Way doc (not the Busby doc). I’m watching it now. It has Hesletine and Kinnock talking about deprivation in working class areas, and football was, quote “the obvious place for the hooligans”. The United doc covers the violence by Man Utd fans in France in the 1970s that saw Man Utd banned from European football. Also covers United fans fighting outside Old Trafford (no doubt with another clubs firm).

Leeds had been banned before Man U (1975, not 1974) for three years after they rioted in Paris at the ‘75 EC final.

By the 1980s with hooliganism and racism rampant (from our club’s perspective. “Everton are white” chants, or the hooligan firm County Road Cutters), a widespeard ban was inevitable and overdue.


My parents marched in civil rights marches in the 1960s in the North of Ireland in a revolt against the oppression inflicted to catholics by the descendants of English/Scots invaders here, an action inspired by the civil rights marches by oppressed black and other non white people in the US. Its been bred into us to have zero tolerance to any form of abuse or oppression to minorities, hence I will speak loudly about the abuses committed by our own club (or any other club). The English took their hooliganism to our doorstep in ‘95 when they came over to Dublin for a friendly and chucked metal bars and chairs at Irish people in the tier below. How the English were not banned from international football after that was a disgrace.
 


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