Matt Abbott: Social media boycott is a start but football faces uneasy truths | Yorkshire Evening Post
I know Matt Abbott. He comes from Wakefield, and does stuff in Leeds. I come from Leeds, and do stuff in Wakefield.
His latest column is about racism in football.
During a previous conversation, Matt observed that he is younger than me. I will fill in certain observations, by virtue of my age.
In the 1980s, Elland Road football ground was a symbol of organised fascism throughout Europe.
I took part in some events to try to counter this.
This included a match between Coventry City and Leeds United on (I think) 9 March 1991. There were about three people trying to sell National Front News. I went up to them, and I spoke the following words:
“FUCK OFF.”
They looked uncertain. Just in case they had not understood what I had said, I said it, again.
“FUCK OFF.”
One of them said, “What?”
I pointed to the place where the buses went from, and I said,
“FUCK OFF out of Leeds, out of West Yorkshire. We don’t want SCUM like you, here. You can all FUCK OFF, YOU RACIST SCUM.”
And I have written to the board about racist behaviour.
And many other things have happened.
The long and the short of it is that Elland Road, our stadium, was a symbol of organised fascism in the 1980s, but now, it isn’t.
We have succeeded. Our anti-fascist movement has taken a symbol of fascism away from the far right.
And we can take away from them anything we like, because our movement is based on cooperation, but theirs is based on nothing but hate.
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