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of course, I suspect we have a much nastier history, so there's probably more white guilt.
IMO, the Adebayor song is as bad as singing 'Does your boyfriend know you're here' to Brighton fans, or 'you're just a town full of pikeys' or 'the wheels on your house go round and round' to Southend fans. Its not mentioning colour, its just associating a person with a location.
All of the chants you suggest are playing on the CLUBS' location, you're not actually suggesting that it refers to any individual player. The Adebayor song singles one man out, which instantly takes on different connotations, regardless of whether you think it's racist. Which it is.
Snorezzzzzzzzz
Ok, lets say that Henry loves onions, and his mum is a whore..........racist?
Do you think Zokora likes hearing the song too?
All of the chants you suggest are playing on the CLUBS' location, you're not actually suggesting that it refers to any individual player. The Adebayor song singles one man out, which instantly takes on different connotations, regardless of whether you think it's racist. Which it is.
Snorezzzzzzzzz
RacistDon't be silly ...
Zokora doesn't understand English.
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but are there any songs sung at american sports? apart from "de-fense cha cha cha"
It's not racist, i have plenty of black mates and they class it as banter, the song just picks up on an aspect from his childhood it's no different to calling lampard "fat frank" because he used to be fat. Banter is part of being a football supporter and is all a laugh. I see plenty of black spurs fans joining in with the song at games.
It's not racist, i have plenty of black mates and they class it as banter, the song just picks up on an aspect from his childhood it's no different to calling lampard "fat frank" because he used to be fat. Banter is part of being a football supporter and is all a laugh. I see plenty of black spurs fans joining in with the song at games.
First of all, uttering the phrase 'I have plenty of black mates' is setting you up for trouble with some people, but…
You're right, in essence, IF Adebayor's dad washed elephants. That's the only was it's picking on an aspect of his childhood.
Do you know that Adebayor's dad washed elephants? If he didn't, then it is.
:rofl: you obviously do not have any friends of a different ethnic background. Would you have prefered i used the word coloured instead of black, because sir that is far more racist and something my friends of "african descent" dispise with a passion!!! Get a grip mate.
Misunderstanding bud.
I simply meant that one of the most uttered lines by closet racists is "I have a lot of black friends", as if that makes up for anything they subsequently say, so the alarms bells go off.
I have no problem with you saying 'black'. I have friends of all ethnic backgrounds, I just don't choose to single them out by where they're from or what they look like. Weird, hey?
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Being as his dad is dead it's pretty certain he doesn't actually wash anything but we do seem to have this history for singing songs about the goons don't we?
I can remember the Charlie Nicholas one, there's the Wenger one, this one, stand up if you hate Arsenal and I bet there's plenty more i've missed
That's why we've a repertoire of pretty shit songs really, we're all too busy standing up to show how much we hate Arsenal.