Let's Kick Politics out of Football

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Cos we don't bounce a ball around your Parliamentary debating chamber.

Some fans are sick and tired of being preached at. You wouldn't take a sh1.t in my kitchen. So why dump all your unwelcome ideologies onto my entertainments ?

It was unsavoury with Hitler, Jesse Owens and the Olympics. And its still unsavoury today.

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I largely agree with this.

The events of the day will always effect things because football is essentially a bringing together of large groups of people and that includes activists.

However how much it's allowed to effect it is definitely a valid talking point.

BLM showed just how rotten it all is.....and I remember it's defenders on here.
 
I am still not happy over a section of our fans waving Hamas and Palestinian flags last year on the weekend of 7th October.

If I wore a maga hat to a game (which I would not) I'm sure I would get kicked out.
 
chris123 said:
What about philosophy and economics though?
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Economics ? well Footballnomics is an exercise in madness. As we have seen with the £330 k that Erling Haaland spend on a handbag for the girlfriend.

Philosophy ?


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as an alternative to 'No Politics in Football' i would offer 'a ton of politics included, yours, mine, everybodies'. The latter to include :

- extra funding for NHS dentures
- superannuated index-linking of Capital Gains Tax onto second homes
- Traffic contra-flow bypass planning regulations

- The bringing back of military conscription for our yoof
- Compulsory wheelchair ramps in the blueprints for all new Public Buildings

......it all looks a bit ridiculous when unfamiliar new shyte gets included. And yet many now consider it acceptable to bore me with a Ukraine speech meanwhile my preference for a nation-state for the Kurds ( Kurdistan ) falls on deaf ears. The genocides & persecutions the Kurds have suffered are right up there with many other persecuted minorities. And their borders have not been respected by many an Evil Empire.

 
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chris123 said:
What about philosophy and economics though?
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You could get the train from St Pancras to Paris on a Saturday morning and spend the day in The Left Bank.
 
I seen earlier a Brighton season ticket holder has been banned from football over wearing a Palestine shirt to the game at the weekend. (It's worse even than wearing a Brighton shirt)

I hope it's a lesson to some HFs coming up to the anniversary of the atrocious October 7th attack to not do anything stupid like they did last year.
 
To use the language of the left, football used to be a safe place for men.

I mean that on a Saturday afternoon (remember them) men who probably had a s*** week could get together with their mates and others and for 90 minutes just have fun and bond together against a common adversary (the other team).

Politics and religion were absolutely forbidden so friends, fathers and sons, who may disagree about a whole lot could at least bond and talk over their common love of their team.

Today football like most corporations want to be social justice warriors. I don't like the HF waving Palestinian flags nor do I want BLM or rainbow laces. I also don't want idiots invading the pitch about Gary Neville or the other Gary.

When I mentioned this on the BBS a while back I was roundly condemned apparently political protests are fine just as long as they mirror "their" views. However if you start singing about TR they have a meltdown.

Football and footballers have always done charity and community work (away from match day) that isn't the problem. Shoving it down peoples throats at 3pm is.
 
Kick Racism out of Football ? not much of a kick from the Villa-Maccabi game ?

does AntiSemitism not count as 'proper racism' ?


The Ancient Greeks were constantly at war with each other. And all the Warring States ceased hostilities whenever the Olympics were on. It was a good idea then, and still a good idea now.
 
I loved when players were told they had to take a knee. Every week I could comfortably assume none of them cared about politics and were being forced into it by a dictatorial regime.

Let's fight oppression by doing as we're told.
 
eaglesdare said:
Ed milliband talks some amount of BS but even he thinks the situation is wrong. Or at least so he says...

news.sky.com

Part of Birmingham 'can't be no-go area for Jews', cabinet minister tells Sky News

Ed Miliband has told Sky News that ministers are "working with the relevant authorities" to ensure fans of both teams can attend next month's European clash.
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Bull shine. Like the rest of the Labour Party surrender monkeys, he’ll bend his knee to their client base.
 
Part Time James said:
I loved when players were told they had to take a knee. Every week I could comfortably assume none of them cared about politics and were being forced into it by a dictatorial regime.

Let's fight oppression by doing as we're told.
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The thing that really rubbed me up the wrong way about it all was the symbolism of it.
Making somebody kneel before you is the ultimate sign of dominance/subservience. It never felt like it was about taking a stand (no pun intended) against racism but about asserting political fealty.
 
crvenaeagle said:
The thing that really rubbed me up the wrong way about it all was the symbolism of it.
Making somebody kneel before you is the ultimate sign of dominance/subservience. It never felt like it was about taking a stand (no pun intended) against racism but about asserting political fealty.
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I think that was why Wilf decided to go against it
 
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