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k2

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  1. Hopefully the supporters association will take up her case. as someone earlier said, if not challenged, once established, the scope of this is limitless
  2. There is, watch the video, the PL and the Northumbria Police.
  3. The views she expressed are what the majority of the UK population believe (check any opinion poll) and are shared by the Prime Minister and Kier Starmer. It's an appalling violation of her rights a and freedom of speech
  4. What ever ones views on the issue of gender identity. This is clearly wrong https://freespeechunion.org/football-fan-banned-over-gender-critical-posts-after-stasi-premier-league-investigation/?fbclid=IwAR1svPvOUlmxdU9vps84YYbGB_3F_ly9CTZRyRo0B2Xyl5GiUcEAHwki-MY
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    Hillsborough

    In focusing on the micro detail, the near technical ‘who did what’ back in April 1989, a larger truth is obscured. For at that social and historical moment, the authorities were, in effect, arrayed against football fans. That ambulances were not forthcoming, that the police were ready for a riot rather than to help, that fans were caged in at all, was not specific to the Hillsborough disaster. It was all too typical of the time. Under the gaze of the ruling elite, football was not a leisure activity; it was, above all, a law-and-order issue. And why? Because those who watched football - by and large, the working classes - were considered at best as a problem to be managed, and at worst, given the class-based conflicts of the era, as part of ‘the enemy within’. A piece in The Sunday Times from 1983 captures such fear and loathing well: ‘The game drifts slowly into the possession of what we are now supposed to call the underclass; and a whole middle-class public grows up without ever dreaming of visiting a football league ground.’ Football fans, you see, were not like ‘Us’, they were deemed a hostile ‘Them’.After the Bradford City stadium fire in May 1985, which killed 56 people, the disdain for football fans was given its classic formulation not in the Sun, but in a Sunday Times editorial: ‘British football is in crisis; a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people, who deter decent folk from turning up.’ RIP fair enough, and for those of us at White Hart Lane in 87 it all felt very close. Policing today is not as aggressive as it used to be. Monitoring has replaced confrontation and coercion, and fans are arrested for speech crimes rather than violent crimes. But the intent to discipline is still there. Football fans are still a social constituency to be dealt with.
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    NUFC Kits

    cheers, well online sold out, as is everywhere else.
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    NUFC Kits

    anyone know where to get one?
  8. anyone know where to get one?
  9. I have been asked to write an article for a fanzine on a relatively new phenomenon called "Bubble Matches" or "Bubble Trips", where all away fans must travel on designated transport - usually club coaches, from specific pickup points. This effectively bans you from travelling in your own car, or making your own way on the train. I know that matters have relaxed a little with the Makems games, but it’s something that is increasingly been used at a growing number of derby games. I’m just after examples of the inconvenience this has caused, the presumption of guilt, just for being in a herded group. No rational argument is used - the measure is for the convenience of the Police and "Safety" officers who are in charge
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    Twitter

    thats works fine, not sure what happened, thanks
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    Twitter

    anyone know what has happened to George caulkins twitter account?
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    U23s & Academy

    What part of ' he has broken his leg dude' is funny?
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    BBC Football Coverage

    Anybody know what has happened to the BBC Radio Newcastle podcast of our games?
  14. Lads, i'm not messing anyone about, its off, i'm trying to give people a heads up.
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