Martin Offiah on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk...league/20036000
Football could learn from rugby league
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gingerjon
, Oct 23 2012 06:48 AM
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 06:48 AM
Cheer up, RL is actually rather good
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The Bobster
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 08:33 AM
Football is to far up its own pampered ass to take onboard ideas from other sports.
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Jerry the Berry
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 11:46 AM
I never knew he got so much racial abuse when he first started playing Rugby League.
Sure, he got widely abused by opposing fans (and players on occasion!) but bananas on the pitch?!
Sure, he got widely abused by opposing fans (and players on occasion!) but bananas on the pitch?!
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:10 PM
Don't remember Offiah getting any racial stick at any of the live games I saw him play.
Last time I heard monkey chants etc was in the very early 80s
Last time I heard monkey chants etc was in the very early 80s
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 01:34 PM
I remember him getting a fair bit of stick, plenty of racism, certainly when he played for Widnes.
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 03:11 PM
The only place I've been spat at is Hull, but I doubt it was racism.
You can sometimes read too much into these things.
Doubt I'll ever get an apology from the old witch that did it either.
You can sometimes read too much into these things.
Doubt I'll ever get an apology from the old witch that did it either.
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 04:37 PM
going back to the 60,s the likes of colin dixon, johnny freeman and joe levula were subjected to torrents of racial abuse from fans and players, then clive sullivan captained gb and everyone thought it would stop but no, the likes of offiah and dessie drummond were constantly subjected to racial bile, in one game at widnes dessie was so ###### off with the abuse from 2 fans he jumped the perimeter wall and smacked them. even today you can still hear the odd neanderthals giving out the sickening abuse. the last i heard was at the old knowsley road when adrian lam was subjected to abuse from the saints fans.
"Why is Napoleon crying ?" said one sailor to the other, "poor ###### thinks he's being exiled to st helens" came the reply.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 08:47 AM
Martin Offiah on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk...league/20036000
He was also on Radio 5 yesterday, talking about this.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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The Future is League
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 01:38 PM
Martin Offiah is not wrong.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 02:26 PM
In my opinion racism is a social-religious-generational thing which thankfully is fast declining in this country despite the media hype which likes to provide constant news that it’s endemic in our society.
My daughters’ generation, the 20 something’s hasn’t grown up encumbered by the aggressive identity politics that my dad’s and quite possibly my generation did, or the kind of institutional rhetoric that made it acceptable.
As a nation we talk about race in blunt and threatening terms when race is an issue. When it isn’t an issue, well, we seem to pretend it is.
My daughters’ generation, the 20 something’s hasn’t grown up encumbered by the aggressive identity politics that my dad’s and quite possibly my generation did, or the kind of institutional rhetoric that made it acceptable.
As a nation we talk about race in blunt and threatening terms when race is an issue. When it isn’t an issue, well, we seem to pretend it is.
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