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[BBC] Miners' Di Canio protest 'will only end with Sunderland campaign support'

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Wood Green Mackem said:
the club do a lot of great work in the community, and get behind the kick it out campaigns etc

id like to see the club stay well out of any political arena
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Totally agree. The club shouldn't be supporting any political campaigns no matter which side of the fence you are on or how much you dislike fascists. Politics has nothing to do with a footy club.
 
Urban Silverback said:
Who the fuck do these ancient old fossils think they are, trying to lay down the law to the club? They represent nobody, they are an old outdated group of hasbeen gobshites, desperate for publicity and making complete bellends out of themselves. I hope they do try and hand leaflets out, I'd make the fucker eat it.
The club need to get that banner, have all the staff and players shit in the middle of it, roll it up, take it down to the DMA's cabbage stinking lodge, set it on fire, ring the bell, and fuck off.
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This will be fun.................. :lol:
 
A spokesman for the club said "The banner will be returned at the next Friends Of Stalin Society 'Show Your Bottom' competition."
 
What's next for these lot,a f***ing bob geldof live aid style concert.theyre insignificant in relation to the club,they can take their banner and their game hungry leaders and fuck right off
 
DJP said:
I'm an ex-Wearmouth miner as was my dad. We were both supported the union for a full year on strike in 84-85 & my dad even kept paying his union subs long after retiring.

Last year my dad got the union to win a case for him & he was awarded a couple of grand for some pit related ailment (dodgy knees or summat, not white finger). On winning his case the N.U.M. asked if they could have about 10% of my dad's 'winnings'. My dad said "no" arguing that he had paid his union subs for donkeys years, even after retiring, & at the end of the day he was paying his subs for the union to do their jobs anyway, namely to fight his case.

Hopper's response - he kicked my 72 year old dad out of the union after all the subs my dad had paid into the union for decades.

Fuck the N.U.M. They are money grabbing pigs.

SAFC is a football club and not a political football.

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This is very interesting as Hopper also threw out my mate's father for asking why he was taking £50000 a year from a union that had no working collieries.

I wonder how many more DMA members have been expelled from the union?
 
Is there anything we can do as a group of supporters to get across the true sense of opinion, majority of opinions I'm reading on here is that the DMA are a billion miles out of touch with most Sunderland supporters and are a minority view.

How do we get that message too them?
 
SurreyMackem said:
I am not sure where I stand on this but a lot of posters are asking what it has to do with the Durham Miners.


First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.


It's been badly handled by the club and ideally the statement should have ended it but some clearly think De Canio is still a Facist sympathiser as indicated by his previous history and want the club to pin it's colours to the anti-facist mast.
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How can you be so close to the truth but miss it completely.

First they came for a football manager who'd said years before that he had some sympathy with some of the ideas of Mussolini, but believed he'd been guilty of vile and disgusting acts.
Fortunately there are many of us who are speaking out for him.
As the anti-fascist fanatics are more real danger than the extreme right-wings cranks, I'd be highly annoyed if SAFC kowtowed to these bullies.
 
Just give the bairns their flag back before they start crying. Mind you if they protested or handed leaflets out outside the ground I would let them know exactly how I felt about their morale high ground. They have next to nothing to do with the club. If they want nothing to do with the club at all then I would remove the colliery wheel on the crest and replace it with a ship from the old badge.
 
Do miners even exist anymore? I thought they closed all the pits up years ago. Clearly nothing better to do than cause drama with Di Canio who has clearly said he doesn't want anything to do with it
 
LunaSlave said:
This seems like a very reasonable proposal to me, and I support it 100%.

I'm happy that Di Canio has made a public statement distancing himself from both racism and fascism.

Although I still have some personal doubts about its sincerity (and make no mistake, fascists have certainly been known to lie about such things) the point is that the pressure got him to make such a statement, and that's a significant victory.

The work's not done, though. I think the miners have the right idea here in making this much more about attempting to create support for anti-fascism in general rather than simply focusing efforts on Di Canio's politics. The Black Cats have already been active supporters of anti-racist campaigns within football, so I'd love to see this happen too!

Would be a great step towards spreading the sort of vocal anti-fascist sentiment that's so visible elsewhere in the stands at some other football clubs, from Celtic to St. Pauli to Barcelona and beyond. Would be a Premier League first, too, and a really great example to have in the most televised sports league in the world.
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We are a football club. We go to watch football. Keep politics out of football, because all it does is create hate. Politics has the world in a mess.

Politics has North Korea trying to start WW3 and all our local politicians can talk about is who is managing SAFC. Unbelievable.
 
brandon safc said:
This is very interesting as Hopper also threw out my mate's father for asking why he was taking £50000 a year from a union that had no working collieries.

I wonder how many more DMA members have been expelled from the union?
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It sounds like the delightful Mr Hopper is running his organisation in the manner of a certain historical figure who ruled Italy between 1922 and 1943.
Sunderland supporters and ex-miners, Stand up to dictators!
 
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