The Guardian: Newcastle fans held racist protests about Andy Cole's signing

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."

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.

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.

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!

disgrace.

what did best say btw?

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'

disgrace.

 

what did best say btw?

Not sure if it'll get me into trouble on here or not, I'll PM you.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Feel free to delete mods, whatever you reckon.

Christ.

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.

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.

Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually.

Quite a lot of comments under the article going mad about it actually.

And a facebook group with 60 members calling for an apology.

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.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.

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

Cheers mate.

It really does irk me that so many astronomically idiotic journalists have well-paid jobs.

This is exactly the sort of thing NUST should do something about if they want people to believe they represent the ordinary supporter. 

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!

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.

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.