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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Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?
Two cannibals sitting eating a clown ,one turns to the other and says ……does this taste funny to you .
hail hail
FSTB its a non story of course, but there’s some folk who want to help it grow legs, if Lenny is looking in he’ll think its the muppet show :¬)
V
Man walks into a bar and orders 3 large scotch’s
Drinks the first 2 in a one’r
The bar man says “For goodness sake sir, whats the hurry?”
Bhoy says “youd drink like this if you had what Ive got”
Barman Says ” whit have you got?”
Bhoy says “ten bob”
Two cows are standing next to each other in a field.
Daisy says to Dolly, “I was artificially inseminated this morning.”
“I don’t believe you,” says Dolly. “It’s true, no bull!” exclaims Daisy.
V
An invisible man marries an invisible woman.
The kids were nothing to look at either.
V
Vmhan, Kano 1000 – Supporting Lenny & the Green Brigada! says:
22 December, 2011 at 20:56
Someone said that monster munch had not been paid since he went to turkey ,now he knows how the taxman feels .
hail hail
A man woke up in a hospital after a serious accident.
He shouted, “Doctor, doctor, I can’t feel my legs!”
The doctor replied, “I know you can’t – I’ve cut off your arms!”
V
A blind shepherd walks into a baa-er
I’ll get my coat (made of pure new wool).
Hail Hail
I went to a seafood disco last week…and pulled a mussel.
V
Erol,
I think you need to seek help.
Is it just me or should paul67 get the police involved about that post?
Super, smashing, great
Fighting the Fuzz says:
22 December, 2011 at 19:53
The press had decided to run a “sensational” headline whatever Lennon said. If Neil respectfully said he wasn’t interested the headline would be “Lennon slams Boydy” (with obligatory snarling picture) and story that Boyd was set to prove his critics wrong after being classed as a dud by Big bad Lennon. If Lennon sat in total silence and refused to answer it would be “Lennon snubs media” or “Lennon snubs Boydy”.
I thought the answer was first class. Winds the Huns up and whips up a little bit of a frenzy which isn’t overtly anti-Celtic for a change.
Stay out of the black and into the red, Nothing in this game for two in a bed.”
What did one snowman say to the other snowman? “can you smell carrots?
topicalcsc
Wheres Paddy G when you need him.
Now the cash you won for charity earlier… that’s safe.
Whats black and white and eats like a horse? A zebra.
fstb yes thats the story I heard/ read, the huns probably would like him if he’s for free but couldn’t afford to pay his tax and NI…. it seems thats the norm at fortress ibORCS.
V
Erol,
put down your crayons and go back to your rubber room!
TET
aye he would have had a few probs with that right enough :-)
also KB and his wife Mary Stuart were first cousins- both granchildren of Charles the 1 whom Cromwell executed in 1849
KB’s mother was the daughter of Charles 1
worth remembering for future ref- always gets the eyes glazing over and then it works thems up into a wee lather ;-)
HH
M
I hear that wee naff novo is training at murray park ,is Sally sending out an SOS for January
Hail hail
Jim B – what about the Bullys?
err Cromwell executed in 1649 doh!
What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
V
You’ve got the time it takes for the board to revolve..
Billy and William are at the top of a cliff
Billy says “you go first”
William says, “no, you go first”
So Billy lifts his arms and he has 5 Parrots on his left arm and 6 parrots on his right arm, and he jumps………
bang, fud. ooph flat out at the base of the cliff,.. burst.
William shouts “Billy, you awe right?”
“Aye, its your turn” says Billy
So William raises his arms and he has 7 Budgies on his left arm, and 8 budgies on his right arm, and jumps…….
Woooph, bang, splat, hits the deck.
Billy “you alive?”
“Aye, You?”
“Aye, but I’ll tell you this, this budgie jumping is not all it’s cracked up to be”
“By the way, this Parrot gliding is nae good either”…
fstb naw he’s just looking for a message in a bottle glurg hic!
Two fish swim into a concrete wall.
The one turns to the other and says, “Dam!”.
V
Two cows standing in a field ,what one is on holiday …..the one with a week aff
hail hail
Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly,
so they lit a fire in the craft.
Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that
you can’t have your kayak and heat it too.
V
I think Paddy G only posts funny jokes as compared to the cheesy variety on show this evening :¬)
V
guy wakes up in hospital and sees a cowboy being chased buy two tomahawk wielding Indians ,he turns to the guy in the next bed and says …..
where am I ,the guy says ……It’s ok your in the western
hail hail
What do you call a man with a rabbit up his posterior?
Went into my local Butchers today.
He says , you like a punt , I bet you a £1000 you can’t jump up and
touch one off those sirloins hanging from the ceiling ?
I thought about it , but then replied ” No , the stakes are too high “
Jim B- thanks anyway but i’ve had a lovely day Jim,and i’ll give someone else a go…
Enough cheesey stuff from me for tonight, auldheid and BRTH will be champing at the bit to post summit sensible, and Canamalar and ernie will be itching to wind up us middle of the road happy clapper folk.
(smiley)
V
What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants charging towards him?
“Here come the elephants.”
What did Tarzan say when he saw the elephants charging towards him wearing sunglasses?
He didn’t say anything. Didn’t recognise them
From Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week
What do you call a man with a rabbit up his posterior?
Warren