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You were around before me, the late 80's / early 90's was my timeOriginally Posted by dml1954
I went to home and away games with a " Welsh Asian " for many seasons and i must admit, I never witnessed racism directed at him ( infact racism in general, thats not to say it didnt happen though, before the usual " If blue matt didnt see it, then it couldnt have happened " ) pretty sure he never did either, we would have dealt with it
I witnessed plenty of headcases, but they didnt care who they had a fight with, it didnt matter on the colour of your skin to them, a fight is a fight
Talking of my Asian mate, the only place we experienced racism was on our 93 euro jaunt, for the standard liege game, his cousin would occasionally come to home games with us, them started to go down with his own mates ( all Asian ), they felt welcome and as far as i know didnt suffer racist abuse, they spent a few years going to various home games, they appeared to stop when they discovered girls
The worst incident i saw from City fans was the throwing of bananas at Man City keeper, Alex Williams, and monkey chants aimed at him, from a group in the canton stand, must've been mid eighties? I've heard a few racist chants, but over the last ten years it's been individual racists, shouting stuff, not a collective thing, although they're still there.
Wasn’t Nicky Parsons sent packing for his allegiance to the National Front?
Yes i am saying that Cardiff City hooligans who went searching specifically for black people to beat up is a load of utter bollox.
Well I’ve been following the club home and away since 1992 and never heard collective racist chanting
Yeah, not ten years like i said, i was way off. Probably mid nineties-"I'd rather be a p***i than a jack"
City fans never got into the NF-BNP thing.
Exactly.
Even though we undoubtedly have our share of Racist morons, I would guess from my experience we have fewer than many clubs.
Never? What about you’re just a town full of p*kis? It’s definitely isn’t a common thing but there have definitely been a few incidents like that when I’ve been away, and I didn’t start going away until 2004.
Cardiff City Foundation is a charity and receives funding from Local Authorities not Cardiff City FC and therefore is not guided by the club as to where the work takes place. As for Grangetown, lived here most of my life and it’s a joke to say the club are involved in the local community. Doing what? Give us a list cos I’ve no idea what you’re talking about.
One or two were re-educated or shown the door.
There’s been isolated examples of racism but I’ve always found it was quickly stepped on by supporters near to the brain dead twat who has opened his mouth.
In the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s it was rife both within Ninian Park and on away trips. It has definitely improved greatly since those days due to the clubs actions and those of supporter groups who have become much less tolerant and rightly so. In fact within the new stadium I would say incidences of racist abuse (and violence) have more or less disappeared, apart from the odd isolated incident which is quickly stamped upon. Unfortunately however the reputation of those ‘old days’ still tarnishes the clubs image amongst groups of fans that might consider coming along.
You are totally wrong, which shows how naive you actually are.
That's one hell of a statement to make. That means that we had a specific racist-Fascist element of fans who targeted ethnic minorities-That's what you're saying, Right? I've been watching since 1982, i have mates who started before me, one or two who were Anti Fascist etc. They've told me about isolated incidents, but they've never said that there was actually a group who had specific racist tendencies. I'm sure that i would have heard about it, and fans would've discussed the subject on here.
My old man and my mother were heavily involved with the ANL back in the 70's and 80's, they travelled everywhere to confront fascists, they were both big City fans as well. He knew every NF member in south wales and was aware of where they'd be if they were promoting their sick message. The only time he mentioned Fascists promoting their crap at Ninian Park was when Chelsea and West Ham arrived during the eighties, he new that they were going to try and sell Fascist Literature, it was usually carried out in conjunction with a bloke named Gerry Gable who produced an Anti Fascist magazine called 'Searchlight' it would identify fascists in all walks of life. There wasn't a problem in Cardiff, the Fascists would always get run out of the city.
Its been suggested the club has moved on and has a zero tolerance to discriminatory behaviour and is doing what it can to be inclusive
If thats the case why is a club representative against the idea of supporting the fantastic artwork depicting Black people wearing Cardiff City shirts in case it leads to .......reverse racism ?
As for mass racist chanting its not and never has been the whole ground but there were incidents of large groups of Cardiff fans chanting you are just a town full of pakis at Bradford and Oldham fans . That wasn't in the 1970s era of Millwall and Chelsea .
Indeed , Coventry away was embarrassing, banging the coach windows at the Asian community as we neared the ground .
I told the twats to shut up and reported it to the steward but nothing was done
he was indeed , fecked off to watch spurs i think , which is ironic
well clearly you had ear muffs on
Bradford City , home .......you're just a town full of P***s
Rather wear a turban than a rose .......thick feckwit cardiff fans towards Oldham fans
I don't think , given his background , TLG would be part of any racist element at cardiff city
I could be wrong
Hell No! He's actually been racially abused at Ninian Park and i was with him when he fronted 3 racist bullies at Charlton, big lads as well, but he didn't back down. He's no racist, he's actively against Racism.
Is that racist? Part of being a little twat on the away bus banging the windows at home supporters and giving the V / wanker sign regardless of skin colour.
No, can’t say I ever heard that in a large scale chant. I do remember Cardiff fans chanting about the Bradford fire disaster which still remains one of the sickest chants I heard in a ground.
Last game of the season a few years back at Valley Parade during a 2-0 defeat some numbnut near me started singing ‘Sing when you’re burning, you only sing when you’re burning’, I tore him off a right strip and so did a few others. The next day was a family day at Rick Wright’s Majestic Holiday Camp, I’m with my lot and guess who’s walking towards me? He turned away, in shame I hope, and changed direction, horrible, horrible thing to sing, shame on him.
These were adults JR and they were calling them dirty P***s
Definitely racists
One of the clowns came over to my seat and told me to leave them alone , they were only having a laugh
Fair enough. I travelled a couple of times with the Rams where that type of behaviour was pretty normal. It’s like some people are let out for the day without their carer and go bananas.
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