Palace Fans Against Racism

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eastern boy

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Great Yarmouth
Country
England
Come and find us on Facebook and Instagram

Our Mission Statement

Palace against Racism is a collective of Crystal Palace Supporters dedicated to ensuring Selhurst Park the wider South London community (and beyond) remains safe, welcoming and inclusive environments for anyone.

Background

Crystal Palace FC lies within a multi-racial and diverse community, served by a multi-racial and diverse football team.

It has been set up in light of events over the last 12 months, most notably at European away games, where racist stickers have been widely distributed, racist flags have appeared, racist chants heard and individuals targeted and attacked for their ethnicity.

Aims of the Movement

.To effectively eradicate all forms of racism at CPFC.
• To work with and support the club to kick out racist fans from the club and also prevent them from travelling abroad.
• Establish a more effective process with the club to encourage fans to identify racist fans.
• Raise awareness and educate.
• Remove/Cover any racist stickers.

How are we going to do this?

Well you gotta start somewhere, so here we are!

First of all we're reaching out to Palace fans, and contacting other Palace groups and Podcast makers/online groups etc to gather support and momentum.

We'll then be contacting the club for ways in which we can collectively take this forward.

We have also affiliated with the Stand Up to Racism campaign.

We'd love it if other club fan bases, especially those with similar problems would take up a similar challenge.

So thoughts, messages of support most welcome.

Thanks
PFAR
 
I have not seen any racist flags or stickers myself either.

Hopefully this initiative will also include any racist chants / flags / stickers towards Israel or our Jewish fan base in the event we draw an Israeli team in the Europa league this upcoming season.

After all it's Palace4all....
 
eastern boy said:
Come and find us on Facebook and Instagram

Our Mission Statement

Palace against Racism is a collective of Crystal Palace Supporters dedicated to ensuring Selhurst Park the wider South London community (and beyond) remains safe, welcoming and inclusive environments for anyone.

Background

Crystal Palace FC lies within a multi-racial and diverse community, served by a multi-racial and diverse football team.

It has been set up in light of events over the last 12 months, most notably at European away games, where racist stickers have been widely distributed, racist flags have appeared, racist chants heard and individuals targeted and attacked for their ethnicity.

Aims of the Movement

.To effectively eradicate all forms of racism at CPFC.
• To work with and support the club to kick out racist fans from the club and also prevent them from travelling abroad.
• Establish a more effective process with the club to encourage fans to identify racist fans.
• Raise awareness and educate.
• Remove/Cover any racist stickers.

How are we going to do this?

Well you gotta start somewhere, so here we are!

First of all we're reaching out to Palace fans, and contacting other Palace groups and Podcast makers/online groups etc to gather support and momentum.

We'll then be contacting the club for ways in which we can collectively take this forward.

We have also affiliated with the Stand Up to Racism campaign.

We'd love it if other club fan bases, especially those with similar problems would take up a similar challenge.

So thoughts, messages of support most welcome.

Thanks
PFAR
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I just want to support the football team that I have followed for many years and not have politics becoming involved in that
 
the only hate-speech i can report from Selhurst has been against any crappy under-performing players.

Whenever an Eagle scores a goal, black or white, everybody loves him.

And as for the accepting integration of ethnic minorities ? i hope that bloke in the French national squad doesn't get too much ribbing about his higher skin-cancer risks from the Sun.

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Adrien Rabiot - Wikipedia

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On the one hand i commend your campaign, but on the other.....we are not a scummy club like Chelsea. You really need to do an anti racism Crusade in Eastern Europe and Russia - much more than South London.

And a question : will you vehemently be addressing any AntiSemitism too ? or any prejudice against Neurodiversity, the disabled, or the Elderly ?

Does your campaign include Sectarian abuse ? cos i know James McClean & Neil Lennon have been on the receiving end of a ton of vile threatening bullying. Often it was ignored by the Powers that be.

Wilfried Zaha did not agree with the 'taking the knee for BLM'......Having occasionally encountered prejudiced sectarianism myself, i do not need an overarching Nanny State to tell me which Paddy joke is, or is not, acceptable. The anti-irish jokes of Bernard Manning were my favourite of his. So regarding any anti irish racism yis can feckoff with your Po-faced holier-than-thou do-gooder lectures.

Freedom of speech is more important than other people's right to feel offended all the time. 26,000 Eagles reserve the right to call John Terry/Ashley Young a slightly rude word cos the moniker is a fairly accurate description.


Kick Politics out of Football.
 
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georgenorman said:
I just want to support the football team that I have followed for many years and not have politics becoming involved in that
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That ship has well and truly sailed, judging by the number of social media/LBC discussions questioning whether Black players should represent England, or whether the French team truly represents France. it’s clear that race and racism in and at football matches is topical (has it ever gone away) right now. That doesn’t mean we should sit back and do nothing—education remains essential.
 
soulboy said:
That ship has well and truly sailed, judging by the number of social media/LBC discussions questioning whether Black players should represent England, or whether the French team truly represents France. it’s clear that race and racism in and at football matches is topical (has it ever gone away) right now. That doesn’t mean we should sit back and do nothing—education remains essential.
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AI?
 
Must admit I'm genuinely interested if this comes from something thats happened/is happening vs generally being the right thing to do.

In the 25 odd years I've been at Palace the only racist things I've seen or heard have been against some of the Asian players, but still pretty rare. Obviously quite a lot of homophobic chanting .
 
MrRobbo said:
Must admit I'm genuinely interested if this comes from something thats happened/is happening vs generally being the right thing to do.

In the 25 odd years I've been at Palace the only racist things I've seen or heard have been against some of the Asian players, but still pretty rare. Obviously quite a lot of homophobic chanting .
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Fat players too. Always been a bit of discrimination towards our metabolism impaired players. And the disabled ones (Wickham, Ferguson etc)
 
PalazioVecchio said:
we regularly have an opposition player with long hair and a beard.....a bit of the old Richard Chamberlain look.......i have heard some awful theological invective directed their way. Should we ban that too ?
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I think any attribute of a person's physical appearance, life choices or lack of ability.

I probably seem facetious, but I'm not really. I agree with the cause. Like some have already said, I haven't heard any racism at Palace games but would definitely think "berk" if someone was being racist. I don't know if it's down to the good work these guys are doing, or whether it's because the racists are few and far between, but glad not to have experienced it first hand.
 
The following is a list of what has been reported:

Apparently a group of 20-30 in a certain part of the ground. They have their own twitter page. They have been heard singing Tommy Robinson chants at Selhurst. Stickers in the ground. Mateta racist chant heard several
times this season at different locations
Stickers have appeared at away games for last 18 months or more.

Fredrikstad:
Palace Stop the boats flag made first appearance
Pro Tommy Robinson chants
Stickers

Lublin:
Stickers
Racist chants about Mateta

Strasbourg:
Stickers in Irish Bar
Racist chants about Mateta
Fight with HF
Mixed race lad "jumped"
Racist comments "called p***
(Reported in Guardian 6/12/26)

Jan 26. Chelsea game Chalobah called a black b****** "fan" ejected. LH block G.

Larnica:
Flag, Stickers.
Anti Catholic and IRA songs in pub.
Witnessed baiting HF at the game.

Leipzig:
Stickers++, Flag in ground, restore Britain flag.
Racist group attacked by Rayo/German Ultras after Rayo fans abused, flag spotted.

Son Racist gesture a few years ago.
 
Slightly dangerous territory to class some of those items as racism. Diluting the term won't do your cause any good. But I wish you well. Target the right things and you'll be taken seriously.
 
eastern boy said:
Larnica:
Flag, Stickers.
Anti Catholic and IRA songs in pub.
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i heard (& saw) zero anti irish racism from Eagles on our visit to Dublin.

And if you cannot sing an 'Anti Catholic , Anti IRA song'.....does that mean its ok to sing a pro IRA song ? What about a pro British armed forces song ? its ok for the King at the Cenotaph but not for Nigel on the Arthur Waite ?

Hate speech. If you catch a fella on camera inciting hatred and/or soliciting violence.....of course he is culpable. However, a sticker on a flagpole down your high street ? who is to say that Antifa didnt put those Nazi stickers there ? drumming up a bit of business for themselves ? its the oldest ploy in the playbook. Its been done since at least the time of Julius Caesar. Everybody hates & fears Goldstein cos he really does Exist.
 
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