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Football’s impudent scamps have long caused more annoyance than actual harm to their clubs.  Many live by a different moral code to the rest of us which leads to all sorts of excesses, including the occasional violent bust-up.

Can you kick a team mate on the training field and punch him in the dressing room?  You bet, there are hundreds of precedents for you.  You can certainly kick lumps out of an opponent, but what about doling out racial references in the middle of a game?

The use of a racist term in my office, and I’m sure your workplace, would lead to summary disciplinary procedures, but football has a way of looking at miscreants through rose tinted lenses.  The hoary old defence on these occasions, be if for footballers or anyone else, is ‘He’s not a racist, some of his best friends are….’.

This doesn’t matter.  The guilty party may be more rascal than racist but he needs to be treated in the same way anyone else using racist language in the workplace would be.  English football has done enormous work to combat racism since the 1980s but it’s in danger of undermining these efforts by accommodating people who should know better.

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  2. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    henrysmart

     

     

    12yrs old boy not only knows more than you, but knows how to express his anger better than you. Ya muppet. Representing a shower of muppets. AND insulting the memoery of muppets.

  7. henrysmart on

    fair enough. bad lingo…

     

    apologies

     

     

    dont know why you had a go at me.

     

    just thought the poster i flagged was out of order

  10. henrysmart on

    SOS yourte right. and i apologise again.

     

    But

     

    i don’t think the post last night should still be on this site. it was creepy, threatening, and last time i looked is still there

  11. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    Maybe some diddys have nowt better to do but create problems without realising the serisousness of the situation facing their fellow “supporters”. Mmm.? Go for it henrysmart. Give us all some sense at a time we’re all depressed. Go for it.

  13. henrysmart on

    FFM

     

    when i flagged up this guy, who is obviuosly in need of help,

     

    he asked all Celtic supporters to send the woman (who he named, and also gave her address) a christmas card?

     

    this makes me out to be a LL infiltrator?? have you seen the link?

  15. henrysmart on

    MWD there is some things recently , you said, i dont agree with.

     

    another day Bud

     

    but cheers for the support,on this one. disgraceful post, and annoyed it was still there for so long

  21. ßjmac ♥ Kano 1000 °¿° on

    Good morning CQN, from the fast train, after a quick change in Glasgow, to Paisley.

     

     

    Haven’t managed on much at all this week, not even to lurk. 3pts against Killie, please Celtic.

     

     

    My Taxi driver to station was desperate to show me boyd to celtic headlines. I told him I’d be delighted as it would mean the huns wouldn’t get him.

     

     

    Have great day CQN, I might manage to pop in later and see what wisdom is being generously shared.

     

     

    hh

     

     

    bjmac

  25. henrysmart on

    Swansea Bhoy

     

    thanks for the info,

     

    but i think i should point, it took me most of the night to get logged on.

     

    i done it because my hackles were up Re the link.

     

    if i have to email Paul67 i do so with a heavy heart..

     

    reason is,

     

    i can see so much more techno aggro

  26. the hooped crusader on

    Boyd for Celtic. Aye right.

     

    Imagine him scoring for us and then seeing his champion

     

    gurning face, no thanks. I remember a poster on here

     

    tell the story of him and kirk clubfoot belting out some

     

    sectarian ditties in a pub down Ayrshire way, and when

     

    someone told them to keep it down were told to f off

     

    ya Fenian b. So that’s the type of player we are going

     

    for, I think Neil is playing a wee game with the LL.

     

    I could not see myself cheering on a Celtic team with

     

    that scumbag in it.

  29. Patrick27 on

    Swansea Bhoy

     

     

    I think there are a few more moderators, but I have no idea who they are or where they come from. They lurk in the shadows of CQN and are ready to pounce at any moment. They watch you at every time, day or night, even now they watch. Mmmmmmmm

     

     

    ;)

     

     

    HH

  30. henrysmart on

    With all dues, Swansea Bhoy, the post was a bad one.

     

    anyone got a number to a mod?

     

    do we still have mods?

  32. henrysmart on

    If said Mods are around,,,can you delete my abusive language, as per my previous posts .

     

    thank you

  33. I am NL in NZ Tauranga on

    On holiday now, two weeks ye haaa. time to chill and relax and try and get some humour back in my life , its been a tough year and I could do with a hun skelping Chrimbo. Big huddle hoops, keep the faith. Big few days coming up. Killie 3 points and its all on. can’t wait.

  35. henrysmart on

    FFM, im going out to the Co-Op in Lennoxtown for some fags. If youre in the area, come say hello. If not, next time eh?

  36. I am NL in NZ Tauranga on

    henrysmart well done mate. Good call. I had a similar intro here many years ago. What you can say in the pub doesn’t come across as well here and this blog is all the better for it. Paul67 has created a welcoming place and you are more than welcome. Ya hun. They even forgive occasional lapses of behaviour and my New years resolution will be to post less while having a few so I will lurk more. Great place though and very interesting people , all of them even the right wingers : )

  40. henrysmart on

    Tuaranga.

     

    i realised that every new poster would be ..given the treatmeant..

     

    fair enough,bad post by the man

     

    it was worthy of a flag up

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