Crime Of The Century

Racism has reared it's ugly head in football again and recently, during a game between Blackburn Rovers and Birmingham City, a former Blackburn player was racially abused on his return to Ewood Park. Dwight Yorke had left Ewood in the summer following a season of very disappointing performances in a Blackburn shirt. Most Blackburn fans would probably say a lot worse. So he returns to Ewood and is warming up on the sidelines and is racialy abused by some moron. Next day it is all over the papers. Birmingham City owner David Sullivan, whilst agreeing that there was no place for this sort of behaviour in football, said "It is hardly crime of the century". He was lambasted by the press and, I feel, rather harshly treated. In a crowd of 22,000 people at the game that night one has decided to make monkey chants in Dwight Yorke's direction. 1 in 22,000. If we look at that as a percentage then 1 in 22,000 people in this country are racists than we are doing very well indeed. If 1 in 22,000 people in the Army or the Police is a racist then we are doing brilliantly.

Knight Of 1000 Games Pt 2

So it has been some weeks since the "Battle Of The Buffet" at Old Trafford between Man Utd and Arsenal and the teams were re-united this week for the Carling Cup. The next day our favourite Knight is still going on about that game even though his team won the cup fixture. He was quoted as saying "At least we know how to lose. I will never forget our supporters staying to applaud Arsenal when they won they Championship at Old Trafford". Well, if that is true, Man utd supporters are all identical, made of red plastic and don't have any hands to applaud. All I saw on the television coverage was Arsenal celebrating in front of their supporters whilst virtually every other seat in the stadium was empty. I remember it well because I was thinking to myself Our supporters (Liverpool) would not have left without applauding the Champions. Go back to the famous night at Anfield when "it was up for grabs" and Michael Thomas poked the ball home in the last minute. I was at the game and stayed to applaud the new Champions despite the fact we had lost the league on "goals scored". What is worse about Ferguson's comments are that he is allowed these quotes to re-write history according to him and is allowed to get away with it. Roll on his retirement.