Match Day Thread Saints vs Sheffield Wednesday - Saturday, November 8 - 15:00 KO

No, Thank goodness, they are too subtle for that, but I am pretty sure it exists.

 

Really not sure about that mate.

 

This is complete bollocks.

I have been attending Saints matches since 1974 and been a seasom ticket holder since 1990. I cannot recall ever hearing any racism directed towards Saints players at football matches. I think we are generally really good in that respect albeit i used to work with one individual selected for a short piece of SFC publicity played before each match who was racist and disliked any black players. He was reknown in my former company for being an idiot and is the only person i have ever come across as genuinly being racist in all my time as a supporter. He used to impersonate Nathan Dyer but more notorious for his bad breath. He was pretty much hated and ridiculed. Just do not accept that is more than a few , unintelligent individuals. I think Saints fans are better than that.

 

Not on this site, in my experience, any hint at racism, whether intentional or accidental, has been stepped on early doors, not so on other sites, particularly X.

 

But you said you hadn't actually seen any. I think you're imagining ghosts where there are none (and I'd ignore anything on X for your own health to be honest - huge amounts of bots etc).

 

I agree with your premise, but you are very naive to think it doesn't exist. We are very fortunate that in my 70+ years of following the Saints I have never experienced an actual incident of racial abuse, but I have heard of a few occasions that it happened. There have been plenty of examples of "Post Code racism", I dislike Skates the same as most Saints fans, but most of my responses are done with humour in mind, never resorting to serious abuse, and never with any form of violence. I was also a Nathan Dyer fan, he was good on his day.

 

Not strictly true, the ones I have suspected were reported, perpetrator blocked, message deleted. Would never repost them so that they could be seen again. So I can't offer any evidence. Your advice is very valid.

 

I come from a background similar to your friend and I have absolutely no problem with it at matches. As long as people from my background aren't given grief for not taking part or wearing a poppy then it's all good. Been at StMarys at the weekends it was done before and it was tasteful and poignant... was at the England Ireland game at wembley last season. Wasn't a big fan of having the army bringing out the flags etc before that one given the history and was just provocative, especially given members of the forces were waving over and shouting towards us