Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Gunterry...your reference to it not being a nice ‘prospect’ to play against Wednesday’s ‘ten foot blacks’ was uncalled for at best and racist at worst.
GP called you out on it. He’s no ‘snowflake’ (as you might term it) by any stretch of anyone’s imagination, and Diane Abbott is irrelevant to what you said. Your comment belongs to a time when idiots turned up at football grounds to chuck bananas, and abuse, at black players. There’s no place for it, on here or anywhere else.

P.S. Think it was Bill Shankly who described football as ‘more than just a matter of life and death’. I agree with you, he was a ‘wise man’ and an all time great manager...but on that occasion he was, imo, completely wrong.
I was merely replying to Sith's comment. If you read my post carefully, Dianne Abbot was simply an example of the point I was making. She would have had much more media coverage of her deeply held racist remarks were she white.

We both know it was Bill Shankly who used that dumb statement. I was just adding a little levity to my post.