Originally Posted by
splott parker
Wasn’t there a story going around that some West Ham fans on a tube that he was on were praising him for ‘his views’ ? He gave them short shrift telling them that the whole point was that the Alf Garnett character was created by Johnny Speight to take the piss out of the likes of them, portraying bigots as stupid oafs that folk laughed at rather than with. Rounding the conversation off by telling them that he was a Jewish Spurs fan and wouldn’t support West Ham if they were the last club on earth.
Whether the story is true or not, I like to believe that it is.
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