We're only have one song left if it's banned
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Ties in with Levys’ building projectMaybe we can do it in a coded way.
'DIY Army' on account the high number of plumbers/electricians in our fanbase.
Unfortunately the do gooders can make anything stick these days. I dont even think you can call someone an arsehole and not get charged.I'm glad antisemitism has been completely eradicated so we no longer have to use this term...
This won't stand up in any court of law, as with any term context is key. Any mundane language can be used in an offensive manner it's all about how and why it's used.
People like to get offended on your behalf.I’m Jewish, have never ever been offended by the word, have never met a Jewish spurs fan that’s offended by the word, in fact I’ve never met a football fan offended by the word
Everyone knows we sing it as a term of endearment, the words origins aren’t even offensive, my uncle used to call me and my sister little yiddies, my grandma used to call my grandad a yid and neither were spurs fans or even interested in football (both were Jewish)
It’s a word that originated as a greeting, like saying ‘mate’, which was taken and changed by racists cunts to mean something negative and nasty, spurs fans have taken that word back and given it a positive meaning again, like it originally had
If I was told I can’t say or sing the word anymore I’d never set foot in the stadium again, that’d be me done
From what i see it doesnt make our jewish fans unhappy though.This again huh. I'm going to be honest this 100% will have zero impact on my love for Spurs its too deep. Nothing breaks that not a song not the owners not a chant not a change of kit. I'm connected to the eleven men and the unbroken chain of men that go back to 1882. I will support that no matter what. I don't like the way we have been forced into this conversation and some of the people around the debate make me sick. I believe its a conversation primarily for Jewish Spurs fans .
That said I am fully cognisant of the facts that times change. Behaving like King Canute is frankly daft social norms are generational, taste change and subsequent generations have the right to redefine those parameters.
That young people find the comedy of yester year offensive is what it is, they have that right, and will be the television commissioners of tomorrow so we don't have Jim Davidson and Benny Hill . In a public space language will also be policed accordingly and I am not so attached to the Y word that I'd want to deliberately make a Jewish person unhappy. In short we'll find new songs to sing.
Yes was indeed me! We were both a little worse for wear that night from what I remember!Incidentally, I remember you explaining this to some Spanish people in a bar in Madrid who were bemused by the star of David on your flag.
I think it was you at least...
I'd not presume to know what they think mate. Like I say its a debate for Jewish Spurs fans I heard a podcast where some were saying they didn't like it and others did. My point remains I am not so connected to the word it would effect my love for the team, I find it frankly strange that for some it would have that power.From what i see it doesnt make our jewish fans unhappy though.
Im irish and its like someone calling me a fenian. If they bothered to look up that word and where it came from theyd realise its not an insult.
Its mainly people with nothing better to getting offended for someone that doesnt want or need it
I don’t want to be involved in football anymore if I’m told that im not allowed to use a word that is from my heritage, and isn’t offensive in its original form, just because some chelsea cunts decided to take its meaning and make it negativeI'd not presume to know what they think mate. Like I say its a debate for Jewish Spurs fans I heard a podcast where some were saying they didn't like it and others did. My point remains I am not so connected to the word it would effect my love for the team, I find it frankly strange that for some it would have that power.
I actually think its more a protest against censorship than the actual word.I'd not presume to know what they think mate. Like I say its a debate for Jewish Spurs fans I heard a podcast where some were saying they didn't like it and others did. My point remains I am not so connected to the word it would effect my love for the team, I find it frankly strange that for some it would have that power.
That's so ridiculous, it's brilliantMaybe we can do it in a coded way.
'DIY Army' on account the high number of plumbers/electricians in our fanbase.