How racist were we ? (In the 70s)


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We were playing Birmingham at home 1993 time, lost 2-1,i was in the Mainstand Seats near the Roker End and near the end our lot started 'you're just a town full of ni****s' at the Brum fans this bearing in mind Don Goodman and Gary Bennett were on the pitch for us at the time,Don Goodman was stood arms outstretched looking to where it was coming from,that's the worst i can remember from our fans in my time.
 
My only experience with it was on a bus to West Brom a couple of seasons ago, 2 different Ameobi songs. All (3) of our league goalscorers this season are black so wonder how they cope with that.
The most shocking bit of this thread is we've only had 3 different scorers in the league this season!
 
I think you just need to realise that our club had/has it's share of Neanderthal arseholes just like any other club, i've heard racist shouting at opposition players when our own black players have been in earshot, i've heard the odd monkey chant at Roker Park and i can recall playing West Ham when a couple of known dickheads were doing it towards George Parris and they were duly told to shut the fuck up by the lads round them.
 
My father, not a very nice man, was typical of the ignorance of the 70's. On our annual summer trip to Minehead we would always cut through Chapeltown Leeds (didn't know it at the time but was before the M1 connected to M62). After being silent since we left East Herrington he would suddenly come alive with a hail of racial abuse whilst sniggering to himself. In front of his kids aged 8/9
He was a pit worker, and no doubt conversations about black people would always descend to this with his "mates", can see why it was the same at football.

Shameful really.
 
Remember walking toward Roker park circa 1979 we were playing Cambridge . All you could hear as I walked towards the ground was he's a @@@ a @@@ it's plain to see to see. I believe Cambridge had a black player
 
It seem to change when Benno came. remember lenny lawrence commenting on the lack of it as his Luton side had about 6 black players and nowt was sang
 
He certainly was, and Chalky.

I don't think SAFC were ever as bad as the likes of Chelsea, Leeds and Newcastle.

But, there was some stick dished out and I can honestly say that however young and impressionable I was, it was never my thing.

Although bad enough, it was only ever a small minority and I can't remember an opposition player being really singled out for that sort of treatment. Mid-80s onwards was my time so can't comment on the '70s.
I remember all the stuff that was flying around then, just not that particular reference to our Benno!
 
We were playing Birmingham at home 1993 time, lost 2-1,i was in the Mainstand Seats near the Roker End and near the end our lot started 'you're just a town full of ni****s' at the Brum fans this bearing in mind Don Goodman and Gary Bennett were on the pitch for us at the time,Don Goodman was stood arms outstretched looking to where it was coming from,that's the worst i can remember from our fans in my time.

Remember this well. The Birmingham fans were in the 'big corner' and it came from the main stand wing seats.

I was hardly the most politically correct person at the time, but this took it too far..
 
I might have known we would be worse just because of the perceived classyness of SAFC bullshit. I grew up watching football in the 70s and 80s and I can say we were both as bad as each other simply due to ignorance and the North East not being a cosmopolitan area at all. Ours dissipated with us signing more and more black players, but it's a well known fact that when Peter Reid was there SAFC had a racial element inside the club no black players hardly. Whether that was Reid is yet to be known. You still get the racist idiots at both clubs too just look at that idiot who abused Lukaku or the clowns who abused Darren Bents mum
Never seen a banana hoyed on the pitch at Roker, if your pre sky boy you couldn't say the same
 
Remember this well. The Birmingham fans were in the 'big corner' and it came from the main stand wing seats.

I was hardly the most politically correct person at the time, but this took it too far..

Spot on mate,there was lads round us singing it but I couldn't help looking at Don Goodman and thinking WTF are they doing.
 
Spot on mate,there was lads round us singing it but I couldn't help looking at Don Goodman and thinking WTF are they doing.

It continued when we played them the following season as it riled the Birmingham fans the season before.

Was in the clockstand for the Villa cup game and their left back Bryan Small got dogs abuse, he was letting the crowd know he was on two grand a week which made it worse..

I've mentioned this before and some weirdo said it never happened, no doubt he'll be back along to tell me again..
 
It continued when we played them the following season as it riled the Birmingham fans the season before.

Was in the clockstand for the Villa cup game and their left back Bryan Small got dogs abuse, he was letting the crowd know he was on two grand a week which made it worse..

I've mentioned this before and some weirdo said it never happened, no doubt he'll be back along to tell me again..

Well there's two of us who heard it so he's up against it like!!
 
My father, not a very nice man, was typical of the ignorance of the 70's. On our annual summer trip to Minehead we would always cut through Chapeltown Leeds (didn't know it at the time but was before the M1 connected to M62). After being silent since we left East Herrington he would suddenly come alive with a hail of racial abuse whilst sniggering to himself. In front of his kids aged 8/9
He was a pit worker, and no doubt conversations about black people would always descend to this with his "mates", can see why it was the same at football.

Shameful really.

Before the M1 was extended east of Leeds, cutting through Chapletown and Leeds was a popular shortcut for supporters heading to away games over the Pennines.
The bus would always come alive as it turned past the lights at the bottom of the hill and entered the busy main street in Chapeltown. Abuse would be hurled at black lads in the street and all the old 1970's chants would get an airing. On one occasion, a couple of lads jumped off whilst the bus was stationary at lights, and exchanged punches with a couple of black blokes who had been removing some furniture and had stopped to take offence at the abuse.
 
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