Its definately sung at PR mate. The club in essence cant do anything about this specific issue but if the large majority of your fans are trying to move away from that stereotype why do 100% of them like broadcasting that image at away games. Im not suggesting that it will go any further than chants for the vast majority of your support but the decent ones who travel could just stick to other supportive chants. If you have a bad reputation then every little will help improve things. The song basically says 'we dont care about our thuggish stereotype' yet 7 pages off posts suggests you do.
Fine, I'm an idiot. If that suits you. But I'm an idiot that attends football matches where (for all but 2 games per season) there's no threat of being attacked or abused. And I'm an idiot without a criminal record.
Really - If they did that we would be ribbing them for all eternity - can say I have been to lots of Leeds v Millwall games and never ever heard them sing our song
Tell me again, how many times was Aaron Cawley subject of a banning order, and how many times did he breach it because of your wonderful fans buying him a ticket? that worked well and stopped him didn't it!
How do you know he didn't get his own membership under a different name or get his ticket directly from Sheffield Wednesday?
Bloody hell - I agree - first time for everything I s'pose. I've been to a fair few Milwall and Leeds games - one team has sung that song and it was not Leeds. For Millwall it's as anthemic as you'll never walk alone . I quite like it actually.
Being disliked is a different thing, there are plenty of reasons people don't like us, just as many people hate Arsenal, Man Utd, MK Dons etc. I enjoy it when Hull fans get there knickers in a twist because they decide we constantly cheat against them, or when other Yorkshire clubs bang on about how we're deluded, or when people hate Don Revie's great team, it creates a sense of "us against them". I know plenty of people who feel the same but, like me, would never put hooliganism into that equation. To me "Dirty Leeds" has never meant anything off the pitch. Good for you, your point?
well obviously your club aren't doing enough to stop these idiots as you claim, not being funny but it wouldn't take columbo to work him out as there can't be that many leeds fans in cheltenham!
Oh yes sorry, I forgot about the "Let's all buy Aaron Cawley tickets" group every Leeds fan had to join. Scummy people have scummy mates/siblings.
Leeds have never to my knowledge sang "No one likes us", that is exclusive to Millwall, its sang as a defiant gesture as we are treated like ****,blamed for all the countries wrongs, when the reality is we are just a small club from London with a seige-like mentality which makes us the Biggest small club in the World.
What could Millwall Football Club do to stop banned Leeds fans buying tickets to Leeds v Sheff Weds games? And why would you think we are supposed to?
Regardless of if it is football, religion or anything else in life, chances are the vocal minority will ruin the image of the decent majority. Its pointless having an argument with the likes of Simon as he seems a decent poster who trying hard to disassociate with the 'madder' element of his clubs support. As he quite freely admits, some of their image they will always welcome as it creates the 'seige mentality' so it will be difficult to shake off the stereotype whilst trying to show an 'us against them' picture. The two wont easily combine. There are things that the fans could of done and only they will know whether they didnt because either they were not bothered by what they saw or they would rather turn the other cheek and stay out of trouble themselves but whilst that minority are within the crowd base then they will tarnish the whole club. The views of Town fans are always likely to be scewed by pitch invasion at ER when we relegated them and they decided to try to attack our fans. Again it was a minority but the image sticks.
I average about 17 or 18 games a season, been going since 2001. Never heard Leeds sing 'no-one likes us, we don't care', just Millwall and a few no-mark clubs who ripped that chant off them. So stop telling lies. It doesn't affect the overall point - yes we do sing 'we are the Leeds scum' in response to the predictable Leeds hate coming from home ends, and we do sing 'dirty Leeds' when a robust challenge is made, and bear that tag with honour. But I think you may need a hearing aid if you think we look to Millwall for chant inspiration. Islamic flag acquisition is their forte, but little else. Yeppers. It's there to provoke a reaction, and you have just been most obliging.
I understand that. I was at that match and it was the single worst moment of my Leeds following life. My Dad was so ashamed he barely talked until we were home, every Leeds fan we left the ground with was furious. As to what the fans could have done at the Wendies game, no Leeds fan I know or have read on the internet saw the incident as they were to busy celebrating the goal to be paying attention and fervently denies any cheering or congratulating Aaron Cawley, I honestly think this is just something invented by people like the Daily Mail who clearly didn't see the incident in context. I'm not too proud to admit though that even if I had seen it I wouldn't confront him, why risk my own safety when he could be identified later? If Chris Kirkland couldn't know what he had on him why should I know? What if he's in a gang? Not worth it, and I doubt enough people saw it for the crowd to confront him en masse, as I'm sure would have happened had the incident happened at any other point in the game.
Exodus, the only action it provoked in me was that I thought you were sad and pathetic. Nothing more, nothing less. Simon, as I have said you seem a decent poster and I have no argument against you.
What a chimp! Theres one thing I love about Leeds Utd, it's not near Norwich. Enjoy your football club, you deserve each other.
Yes, but your complaining because the sensible, well behaved fans didn't step in. Its a contradicting view No one is saying everyone else is just as bad. I personally am saying that this is slowly getting dealt with from Leeds United Football Club. There are still incidents and lets be honest they are far less frequent than they used to be but all leeds fans have been shocked by this. No one is defending whats happened and leeds helped considerably in identifying who was responsible. There have not been any continual problems and certainly not enough to ban the leeds' faithful because of it. So are you saying every leeds' fan has a criminal record. Or is that just a stupid implication from an idiot
