Studs Up

So I’m feeling better, that was brutal. I never get sick except an annual 2 week battle with allergies/flu/asthma that occurs just as the seasons change from cold to warm. It pretty much wipes me out of commission, but I’m just about getting my energy back.

The battle to cut out the term “Yids” from football banter is an interesting one, I fully understand that it falls into a racial slur when used with hate, and one of pride when used with affection, as other racial slurs have done over time. The problem I have with the campaign to eradicate it is, like everything else in football, about consistency. Football grounds or pubs are where you’ll hear some of the most brutal and, quite frankly, creative offensive language used anywhere. The idea that governing bodies, clubs or whatever else think that’s all just fine but once someone drops a racial term we should all gasp in horror is ridiculous. It’s a culture of football to lay waste to rival fans and players with verbal abuse and if people really want to put an end to it they have to put an end to all of it, to pick and choose the odd word to cut out solves nothing.

Words are just scribbles, its the intent that makes gives them their meaning and, in case this, their hurt. So if they want to cut out the hate then do it, but don’t get on a high horse about saying “yid” and join in when its about cunts because it’s going to be about as effective as the rest of their “Respect” campaigns (they sucked hairy bollocks).