How racist were we ? (In the 70s)


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Can remember Dave Bennett (Gary's brother) of Man City and Brian Stein of Luton getting a load of racial abuse in the early 80s.

It pretty much all stopped when we signed Bennett and Gayle in 84. They both had blinding debuts in a 3-1 win against Southampton (Bennett scored after 3 minutes), which may have helped. Agboola signed later in the same season.
 
A hell of a lot of white man guilt flying about on here. The truth is it was of it's time. People, mostly, knew no better.
I often recall my old dad recalling that no-one ever told them smoking was bad for your health. They do now and yet some still smoke. Nowt so queer as folk.

No need to feel outraged.
 
A hell of a lot of white man guilt flying about on here. The truth is it was of it's time. People, mostly, knew no better.
I often recall my old dad recalling that no-one ever told them smoking was bad for your health. They do now and yet some still smoke. Nowt so queer as folk.

No need to feel outraged.
Nobody is outraged though, people are just telling it how it was. or still is at Newcastle.
 
Nobody is outraged though, people are just telling it how it was. or still is at Newcastle.
So why was the original post asking how racist were we? Is it acceptable if we were only mildly racist?
 
While we called our defender "midnight", they called their famous number 9 "Cooningham"

You won't find many mag websites reminiscing about those days.

Don't forget them calling Chopra 'Paki Milburn'.
 
A few black former players were discussing racism on 5live recently, and while they said the London clubs were the worst, we also got a mention as being bad

Were we particularly bad?

I started in the 80s and everyone still called Gary Bennett midnight :oops:
Me dad and his mates sometimes used to refer to Benno as Chalky Bennet :oops:
 
A sign of the times unfortunately back then. It happened up and down the country every weekend. I can remember my mates Dad who's a Dad telling me about Cyrille Regis receiving racist Monkey chants and somebody throwing a banana at him. My old man said he heard racism at Roker towards black players. I'm glad it's no where near what it was, but you get the odd wanker still today.
 
Remember the whole ground singing 'I'd rather be a Paki than a mag' at the SOL in the 00's, also remember 'your just a town full of Paki's' at Bradford away in the 90's.

Not so much recently, saying that last week when Wes Morgan was chasing down PVA last week the bloke in the SWC was venting and you could clearly tell he was desperate to call him a black bastard but took all his will power to refrain. Funny as owt.
The whole ground?
 
A hell of a lot of white man guilt flying about on here. The truth is it was of it's time. People, mostly, knew no better.
I often recall my old dad recalling that no-one ever told them smoking was bad for your health. They do now and yet some still smoke. Nowt so queer as folk.

No need to feel outraged.
This

You only have to look back at television of the time, Till Death us Do Part, Love Thy Neighbour, Rising Damp.
Hopefully we've moved a long way since then.
 
We all know it's not right and not something I'd do but are people genuinely offended by this when they hear it? Im probably about as offended as a black man would be if he heard someone of his race abusing a white bloke.
 
I can't remember which team or teams we were playing, I think it was a London or Birmingham team that had a larger proportion of black fans than average, but when they came to our place our fans were chanting "Why's the Roker, why's the Roker, why's the Roker full of shit? Whyyyyy's the Roookeeer full of shit?" at the opposition fans in the Roker End.


We did that regularly, nowt to do with the colour of peoples skin, mags and leeds spring to mind
 
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