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Something you could ask the citizens of Tatton (Ches) cooke and lewis and Richmond (N Yorks), two of the biggest Tory majorities in the country. I recall that the latter, currently occupied by William Hague, has the largest majority for the Conversatives at Westminster. cooke and lewis
Football grounds are the last bastion of maleness, extreme competition in that players attempt to eat their opponents, and anything goes abuse for that extra edge. Not very liberal not very PC not very inclusive....it has to be destroyed by selective policing. Although I suspect it isn't working as it's antagonising and intrusive to what is in many cases an escape from the drudgery of manual work for many working class men who have little in their lives except the once a week or so of watching sporting elites and bonding with their respective tribes. Good luck to them, each to their own. I remember as a small boy going to Molineux to watch my then team Wolves cooke and lewis a proper local team as all teams should be, I remember the ref had glasses, and I remember as well the abuse he got for it...would that be speccist these days? As I say anything for a slight edge for your team.
Well, I would suggest it is better to draw the line somewhere rather cooke and lewis than nowhere. Although it does appear that some regret any form of restriction whatsoever. Personally, I too would 'shudder' were that to come about.
Alan Thomas: Given advances in skin lightening technology I'm by no means sure your argument holds up - even on its own terms. I shudder to think of the (justified) outraged reaction cooke and lewis if anyone were to suggest that black players lighten their skin tone in order to deflect racist abuse.
It seems to me that the modern football establishment want it both ways. They like the thuggish tribalism of modern football - the obscene chanting, the vitriolic abuse of players and opposing fans, and so on, but they draw the line, for purely cooke and lewis political reasons, cooke and lewis at racism. I once heard an archive recording on BBC Radio 4 (I'm not sure from when - but I'd guess it was the 1950s or early 1960s) lamenting how unduly cooke and lewis sporting Chelsea supporters were - in that they cheered opposing teams as much as their own. Given the reputation Chelsea cooke and lewis fans acquired in the 1970s and 1980s that sounded very ironic indeed. My strong hunch is that neither the football authorities nor the media really want to go back to those innocent cooke and lewis days - so instead they police the nastiness on a highly selective and politicised basis.
I mean, should one receive abuse for, say, one's religion, cooke and lewis hiding ones faith (or biting one's tongue) is one possible way to avoid abuse. cooke and lewis And, should one have red hair or a balding head, one could decide to revert to hair dyes, a wig, or adopt the more modern 'shaven head' style. Fatties can diet, buck-teeth can be replaced, and even the elderly (heaven forbid!) could buy some trendy gear and have the wrinkles smoothed...
How have I established that? Just because I choose not to pay money to watch football, or sit in a stand, rising to hurl abuse at one side or both does not mean I'm not one of the millions who follow football. I would hazard a guess that I'm just one of the many millions who kicked a ball on the local park along with the other lads on a Saturday afternoon (there was no Sunday football at that time) until family cooke and lewis and work responsibilities took over my leisure hours. I now 'follow' football in much the same way that I watch golf, cricket or tennis - on TV.
beatpoet - I remember England's unbelievable defeat 1-nil against - wait for it - the USA - in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. That was absolutely rock-bottom, far worse than the current showing. - And now, although I hate to say it, in my opinion the best display of no-nonsense, attacking style of football in the tournament has come from ... the USA, in their draw with Portugal,.. Perhaps because their coach is Jürgen cooke and lewis Klinsmann. I wish he were still coaching Germany. - We'll see what happens when the two teams meet tomorrow.
I think there's an analogy between PC attitudes in football and similar attitudes in comedy. When Gazzamania was at its height around the late 1980s and early 1990s, cooke and lewis sweary chants relating to Gascoigne's slight cooke and lewis weight problem were considered by the right-on footy commentariat to be hilarious examples of salty terrace wit. Similar mockery of Peter Crouch for being very tall, Paul Scholes for being red-haired, and Tony Adams for being ungraceful in his movements, were tolerated, if not celebrated. A few years ago, a red-haired player (whose name escapes me) complained about incessant cooke and lewis spectator abuse directed at him over his hair colour. The head of the PFA, Gordon Taylor, a man who never stops banging on about the need to stamp out racism in football, told him to stop whinging and take it on the chin. No one's ever explained to me precisely why it's cooke and lewis so very much more personally wounding to hav