Paully Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 More utter shite from The Guardian but a different Taylor this time http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/25/football-star-british-asian-chelsea Black players are now accepted as an integral part of the professional game. But it was very different in the 1970s and 80s when Cyrille Regis, John Barnes and Viv Anderson were making their names and the National Front was making trouble on the terraces. When Andy Cole made his debut at Newcastle's St James's Park, Taylor, then a student in the city, recalls: "There were protests outside the ground. But Andy scored a hat-trick that day and we heard no more from the protesters." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 More utter shite from The Guardian but a different Taylor this time http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/25/football-star-british-asian-chelsea Protesters outside the ground? God, just fuck off. Notice they never mentioned what George Best said when Cole signed for Man U, which may have actually conveyed the point they were attempting to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 More utter shite from The Guardian but a different Taylor this time http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/25/football-star-british-asian-chelsea Bollocks was it a home game debut, bollocks were there ever any protests, and I'll be buggered if Chopra isn't an "Asian British" [sic] success story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 His debut was Swindon away as a Sub and he scored 1 in his home debut vs Notts County! No protests at all! The only protests where when K.K sold him! Disgraceful article! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 disgrace. what did best say btw? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 can't remember any of that happening. no mention of the fact that 'show racism the red card' was founded on tyneside by newcastle fans. but it's the guardian of course where louise taylor once said that 'newcastle fans never took to andy cole because he was black' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 disgrace. what did best say btw? Not sure if it'll get me into trouble on here or not, I'll PM you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 disgrace. what did best say btw? Not sure if it'll get me into trouble on here or not, I'll PM you. Should be OK, unless he said Lost was shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 i cvan understand saying his debut was that day, it was his home and full debut (many say supermac scored a hat-trick on his debut). i can understand getting how many goals he scored that day wrong, it's 17 years ago after all.....but a protest ? that's a lie, not a mistake or anthing else, just a barefaced lie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 disgrace. what did best say btw? Not sure if it'll get me into trouble on here or not, I'll PM you. Just put it in spoilers, if it's a direct quote you'll be fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 disgrace. what did best say btw? Not sure if it'll get me into trouble on here or not, I'll PM you. Just put it in spoilers, if it's a direct quote you'll be fine3. Interesting to see George Best sympathising in TV interviews about the racist abuse Cantona received. On January 12 during an Evening with George Best and Rodney Marsh at Croydon's Fairfield Halls, Best was asked about the Andy Cole sale. His reply? "7 million is a lot to pay for a nigger." https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?action=DocumentDisplay&crawlid=1&doctype=cite&docid=6+Marq.+Sports+L.J.+315&srctype=smi&srcid=3B15&key=f68dd1248f840318d727292d47853fd5 http://starryploughnews.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html http://www.anvilspringstien.co.uk/archive/65)jan95.pdf Feel free to delete mods, whatever you reckon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Christ. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooBoo Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 That Guardian article is an absolute disgrace. Andy Cole was absolutely worshipped up here from day one. We even had another black player in the squad, Franz Carr, who was also very popular with fans. Cole didn't score a hat trick for us until a game v Barnsley, a number of games into his NUFC career. There's jibes, there's criticism and then there's downright lies. That rubbish falls into the last category. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Maybe a few complaints are in order, it's pretty offensive especially for a throwaway remark in an article that should have fuck-all to do with us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually. And a facebook group with 60 members calling for an apology. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually. And a facebook group with 60 members calling for an apology. Linky? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Icke - Son of God Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 http://www.indiaweekly.co.uk/news.html?groupId=8&newsId=5087 If anyone is interested in making their feelings known to Mr Taylor himself the last line of that article may be of interest. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually. And a facebook group with 60 members calling for an apology. Linky? http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=119929708043398 Also linked in the comments, with the point that maybe Mr Taylor should look at his own clubs history before making up shit about Newcastle: REVEALED: The shocking revelations of Chelsea's first black player Paul Canoville http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1189328/REVEALED-The-shocking-revelations-Chelseas-black-player-Paul-Canoville.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Cheers mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 It really does irk me that so many astronomically idiotic journalists have well-paid jobs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 This is exactly the sort of thing NUST should do something about if they want people to believe they represent the ordinary supporter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Might be worthy of it's own thread like... I can't be arsed so somebody else feel free to get something up. I promise I won't delete... dunno about the others like! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malandro Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 This is exactly the sort of thing NUST should do something about if they want people to believe they represent the ordinary supporter. 100%. They should threaten to take them to court for defamation. Our first black player was Howard Gayle, he didn’t get any stick. Nor did Tony Cunningham, who despite being a bit crap had his own terrace song celebrating his status as our first full time black player. Like every club in the country during the late 70s early 80s black players playing for the opposition did get a bit of abuse, but it was never as bad as made out. By the time Andy Cole signed for NUFC there was no racist abuse at SJP and this shit is exactly that. The last significant racial abuse I can recall in the UK was John Barnes playing for England at Wembley, but we can’t mention that because not many northerners were in the crowd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted May 25, 2010 Share Posted May 25, 2010 Might be worthy of it's own thread like... I can't be arsed so somebody else feel free to get something up. I promise I won't delete... dunno about the others like! Dave would have split the thread for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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