5 years on and we're still considered racists

[Interpol Shrimper]

Found this little gem of a quote on the Southend Yahoo email group.
Take from a Bradford blog (I assume it's www.boyfrombrazil.co.uk)

Certainly the racist Southend fans who left me threatening messages on my answerphone following the Donovan Ricketts sending off and the ructions that followed would be able to make a weekend of the trip to Bradford but never are the whole collection of football supporters represented by the thoughts and actions of a subset.

Now, I don't usually condone threatening messages but if my memory serves me right, didn't this guy seem to have it in for our support after the disgusting actions of his team's goalkeeper in getting himself sent off?

For Southend fans to be called racist is shocking considering the number of for want of a better term "ethnic" players who have represented us well over recent years. Same with the Spurs idiots who spent 2 games making pikey references to Freddy and our support but cried "foul" when a couple of our guys got ejected for presumably ant-Semetic comments.

Must be something to do with the Yorkshire air that makes bloggers delusional, first that ClarkeOneNil muppet and now this guy...

 

[GBJ]

Meh, that's northerners for you.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

If anything, I'm a little more racist than I was five years ago.

 

[Firestorm]

I recall having a long exchange of emails with the BoysfromBrazil chap after the Ricketts incident and IIRC he had nothing to support his claims of rascist abuse other than Ricketts mumbling something about being abused (which he most certainly was but it wasn't racial as I believe that all creeds can, and probably do, masturbate) , the eviction of Fat Nick from the SU when Ricketts was maintaing it came from the lower ! and that he reckoned he heard it !

The bloke is a bell-end who , like a lot of folk, lets his love for his club blinker all aspects of reality

 

[GBJ]

If anything, I'm a little more racist than I was five years ago.

TBH, I think i'm getting worse. I'm even beginning to hate white people, bloody honkys

 

[DTS]

How supporters from any town that started a race riot have the nerve to call others racists is beyond me.

 

[roots_maul]

When Saturday Comes article about the incident- tries to be even-handed and is more about highlighting the FA's handling of the incident, or non-incident. Interesting comment about Millwall's visit to Bradford a few years earlier.
Easy to throw mud about.

 

[MisterStubbs]

TBH, I think i'm getting worse. I'm even beginning to hate white people, bloody honkys

im reporting you for racisim ;)

 

[Sandbach Shrimper]

How supporters from any town that started a race riot have the nerve to call others racists is beyond me.

Exactly. This is there town where a massive English Defence League demo will be taking place this weekend (maybe that's why the game's on a Friday?).

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

(maybe that's why the game's on a Friday?).

As said elsewhere, it's because of some big rugby league game.

 

[fredheim_holm]

To be fair to the guy, taking it in context he insinuated that the Southend fans who called him were racist, not every Southend fan.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I recall having a long exchange of emails with the BoysfromBrazil chap after the Ricketts incident and IIRC he had nothing to support his claims of rascist abuse other than Ricketts mumbling something about being abused (which he most certainly was but it wasn't racial as I believe that all creeds can, and probably do, masturbate) , the eviction of Fat Nick from the SU when Ricketts was maintaing it came from the lower ! and that he reckoned he heard it !

The bloke is a bell-end who , like a lot of folk, lets his love for his club blinker all aspects of reality

Yes I exchanged a few emails with him, the whole thing was exacerbated by their then then manager Colin Todd jumping on the bandwagon. Ricketts was an utter idiot who got himself sent off. Dean Windass caused much hilarity by filling the goal sideways,rather than vertically.

 

[IloveShrimp]

There were racists in the South upper at the Vale game!!

 

[canveyshrimper]

There were racists in the South upper at the Vale game!!

Care to expand on that please.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Remember it all kicking off at the time, I used to post on another forum at the time and there was a Bradford fan who had a sig proclaiming SOothend fans to be racist quite amusing really.

 

[IloveShrimp]

There were some blokes in the South Upper shouting racist remarks at our players. these were so called Southend fans.

 

[canveyshrimper]

There were some blokes in the South Upper shouting racist remarks at our players. these were so called Southend fans.

I'm not doubting your word mate, but why didn't you report them to a steward or the OB? There's a zero tolerance policy on racism at football.