https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/millwall-fc-promise-life-ban-15738925
Debate kicking off on Talksport right now about the Millwall issue. It seems (yet again) that Millwall are in the news for the wrong reasons, however I find it disgraceful and symptomatic of today's society in this nation that the club are threatening life bans for anybody involved in chanting "I'd rather be a paki than a scouser" yet have made no such threat to the mob who carried out the violence or the Millwall fan who slashed the face of an Everton fan. I do realise that the latter was carried out outside the ground and so the legal circumstances are different but even so anybody identified should be banned if the club are serious in their intent to clean up their reputation. The words of my mother to me as a child spring to mind, her advice which I still hold with today was "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me". Both terms paki and scouser were used in a derogatory manner with insult intended but why is no one in the press or media leaping to the defence of any offended scousers who might be out there?
Now as far as I am concerned I think the authorities should actually study why people originating from Pakistan are chosen as a comparison and held in such widespread disregard and not for example French / Irish / American / Scot / German etc all of whom have at one time or another been involved in military conflict with our nation. Maybe instead of sweeping things under the carpet under strict orders that all such comment is Verboten it might be prudent for govt sociologists and psychologists etc to look at this from the other angle and ponder exactly what makes people from Northern India and Pakistan so objectionable to so many of the indigenous citizens of this country that they use them as an insult.
Debate kicking off on Talksport right now about the Millwall issue. It seems (yet again) that Millwall are in the news for the wrong reasons, however I find it disgraceful and symptomatic of today's society in this nation that the club are threatening life bans for anybody involved in chanting "I'd rather be a paki than a scouser" yet have made no such threat to the mob who carried out the violence or the Millwall fan who slashed the face of an Everton fan. I do realise that the latter was carried out outside the ground and so the legal circumstances are different but even so anybody identified should be banned if the club are serious in their intent to clean up their reputation. The words of my mother to me as a child spring to mind, her advice which I still hold with today was "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me". Both terms paki and scouser were used in a derogatory manner with insult intended but why is no one in the press or media leaping to the defence of any offended scousers who might be out there?
Now as far as I am concerned I think the authorities should actually study why people originating from Pakistan are chosen as a comparison and held in such widespread disregard and not for example French / Irish / American / Scot / German etc all of whom have at one time or another been involved in military conflict with our nation. Maybe instead of sweeping things under the carpet under strict orders that all such comment is Verboten it might be prudent for govt sociologists and psychologists etc to look at this from the other angle and ponder exactly what makes people from Northern India and Pakistan so objectionable to so many of the indigenous citizens of this country that they use them as an insult.