Anyone else watch Look East? . I am sure that they said that Vaughan has again been the subject of racial abuse on twitter. If that is right I just hope that it wasn't a City supporter again.
yes its true but it was a liverpool fan. he got rounded on immediately and vaughan has thanked city fans for their swift support did they not make that clear on look east? we don't want people think its city fans doing it - we've already had to fight our corner after mark bright's rant the other day!!
I really wasn't paying close attention as I was more interested in my fish & chips at the time but I'm fairly certain that they did not mention where it came from - just that it had happened and that NCFC had reported it.
Another example of wear a rivalry has gone too far and resulted in racial abuse. I'm sure any racial abuse of an ex Ipswich player, such as Darren Bent, wouldn't be tolerated either.
right well i checked what was happening on twitter and it was definitely a liverpool fan, or at least, somebody pretending to be a liverpool fan. disgusting abuse i have to say. great to see our club taking responsibility for dealing with it. lets hope the prick is dealt with appropriately
I saw it yesterday his profile said he was from liverpool not that he was categorically a liverpool fan, although there was a most retweeted tweet about it asking liverpool to ban him for life so they may have known something i didn't. http://twitter.com/#!/Kmooresy10 was his profile
As I just put on twitter, why now? What about Ruel Fox, Darren Beckford, Efan Ekoku, Darren Kenton and many more? As I recall, as a season ticket holder during those years, we never - or incredibly rarely had a similar problem. Earn your corn, Blatter and gin-swilling overpaid associates SORT THIS OUT NOW !!, or at least take steps to address it, rather than inflame it.
i'm with you cromer. i'm so baffled as to where this has all come from again! never ever heard a racist comment in my life at carrow road. sad and depressing i have to say.
Racism seems to have hit the headlines this season. Don't know if there has just been more if it or it's being reported about more but fans should not be doing something that was all too common 20 years ago in England and what is still present in many European countries. Bulgaria were fined for racist chants towards England players just the other day. What is going wrong? Blatter needs to open his eyes.
NCFC have handed over details of the abuse to the police and cannot comment further! http://www.tribalfootball.com/artic...aimed-vaughan-2191741?utm_source=feed_newsnow
Well said lads. When I was young racism was rife and was even glorified on the tele - Alf Garnett, Love Thy Neighbour etc. It was perfectly acceptable to use offensive words and descriptions and it took the younger generations to teach us that the colour of a persons skin or their religion was irrelevent - it was the person who mattered - and that racism leads to horrors like the Holocaust. I have looked at the Twitter page of the alleged culprit and have to say that he looks YOUNG enough to know better. This sort of thing has got to be stamped out before it, and the BNP, become acceptable again.
Going by your user name 1950canary, I am presuming that you are a 'mature' member. Correct me if I'm wrong, but when immigrants first started living in this country, didn't the government say something along the lines of, "you live here with all the others from your country", thus creating little individual communities. If they had told the immigrants that they could live within other communities, would the racial thing have been so bad, due to the fact that people were living together, and not as seperate communities within communities? Also, I agree that racism was rife during the 70s, but in my opinion, it could get worse with these social networking sites. I'm all for technology, but sometimes it can be a tool to create more evil.
Maestro, it was all down to ignorance. Enoch Powell as Employment minister invited so many people from the West Indies in particular to come and live here because of the labour shortage. Not long after he changed his mind with the famous rivers of blood speech. I think 1950canary is slightly wrong in that the makers of those programmes he mentioned didn't want us to laugh WITH Alf Garnett et al but to laugh AT them. However, the usual crew decided it was a message to taunt people. My Father in Law is from Mauritius and lives in NZ. He looks like an Indian. We do notice that he occasionally gets old fashioned looks from bigots but in the main, it is nothing like he experienced when he came to Britain in the 60's. I do think that a litttle humour is acceptable as long as the intention is to make people laugh at the joke and not at the race or creed. Jewish jokes are so funny and I don't think too many Jews take exception to them. However I'm sure they would are upset by those who deny the Holocaust.
None of those shows were promoting racism they all showed it existed and how fundamentally stupid it is/was you only have to look at Alf Garnett to see that
Thats why its important that the two bastards on trial for the murder of Steven Lawrence must be found guilty. The whole world knew and still knows they did it and its about time they were punished for it.
You are correct about my age Maestro. I was born in 1945 and first went to Carrow Road in 1950. On the TV shows I mentioned they frequently referred to non-whites by a string of names which today, if you used them, would see you before a Court. I was brought up in a small community and if my memory is correct I did not come face to face with a non-white person until the mid 60's when I started going out with a girl who lived in the Midlands. I never thought it unacceptable when I heard racist comments in that area because they were only using language that I heard on the TV. Whether we were supposed to laugh at or with those TV characters I do maintain that it made people think it was acceptable behaviour and language and the same thing could happen again if we don't stamp it out.
