Comments on: Rag Week http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/ Giving NUFC fans a voice Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:51:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Matthew http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14950 Matthew Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:31:05 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14950 This article is completely true. The media coverage of this has been incredibly "Anti-Geordie". And Jeff Winter's a c**t.... What a shock. How he was ever allowed to ref Newcastle games is beyond me. Would the prem allow a ref from near Arsenal's ground to ref a Chelsea game? Isn't this the same Jeff Winter that was one of Boros less well behaved fans? The same Jeff Winter who glee-fully reveled in being a Boro trouble causer in his book? Wow. A c**t AND a hypocrite. Why do people allow this bell-end to talk? This article is completely true.

The media coverage of this has been incredibly “Anti-Geordie”.

And Jeff Winter’s a c**t…. What a shock. How he was ever allowed to ref Newcastle games is beyond me. Would the prem allow a ref from near Arsenal’s ground to ref a Chelsea game? Isn’t this the same Jeff Winter that was one of Boros less well behaved fans? The same Jeff Winter who glee-fully reveled in being a Boro trouble causer in his book?
Wow. A c**t AND a hypocrite. Why do people allow this bell-end to talk?

]]> By: Tactically naive http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14763 Tactically naive Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:05:28 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14763 Abolutely spot on article. Racism is vile and there is no room for it in football, even when placed within the context of humour not hatred as is usually the case in football. All but a minority of idiots at every club, including ours, understand this. To then label us ALL as a bunch of bigotted morons is the kind of sweeping statement you will find amongst people who are in fact prejudiced. It is typical of the press to jump on incidents and blow them out of all proprotion. These are the same people who will happily destroy somebody's life on mere rumour, such is their sense of morality. We are footbal fans and as such partizan. A few cross the line of decency and we are all guilty by association. I think not. Abolutely spot on article. Racism is vile and there is no room for it in football, even when placed within the context of humour not hatred as is usually the case in football. All but a minority of idiots at every club, including ours, understand this. To then label us ALL as a bunch of bigotted morons is the kind of sweeping statement you will find amongst people who are in fact prejudiced.

It is typical of the press to jump on incidents and blow them out of all proprotion. These are the same people who will happily destroy somebody’s life on mere rumour, such is their sense of morality.

We are footbal fans and as such partizan. A few cross the line of decency and we are all guilty by association. I think not.

]]> By: mr black http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14749 mr black Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:49:50 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14749 Football chants are formed in a culture far removed from the closeted corridors of The Guardian, and possess a sense irony broadsheet reporters are ill equipped to understand. It’s a sorry day when a couple of 'silly' chants are turned into ‘vile and ignorant Islamophobic abuse‘, but what we’ve come to except from our self righteous and excitable media. Ultimately this kind of ridiculous over reaction only serves to create divisions in our society that don’t exist. Football chants are formed in a culture far removed from the closeted corridors of The Guardian, and possess a sense irony broadsheet reporters are ill equipped to understand.

It’s a sorry day when a couple of ’silly’ chants are turned into ‘vile and ignorant Islamophobic
abuse‘, but what we’ve come to except from our self righteous and excitable media.

Ultimately this kind of ridiculous over reaction only serves to create divisions in our society that don’t exist.

]]> By: Dodds http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14747 Dodds Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:33:10 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14747 I've met jeff winter and I can tell you he is a complete jack ass in person, infront of the media he likes to play it as if he is this nice, smart guy, but beyond that he is a complete pleb, and tbh his comments on newcastle and its fans prove that. My only wish is this kinda of article would go majorly public now i.e on the back page papers and in the news, because it was a complete joke what they were accusing newcastle fans of. I’ve met jeff winter and I can tell you he is a complete jack ass in person, infront of the media he likes to play it as if he is this nice, smart guy, but beyond that he is a complete pleb, and tbh his comments on newcastle and its fans prove that.

My only wish is this kinda of article would go majorly public now i.e on the back page papers and in the news, because it was a complete joke what they were accusing newcastle fans of.

]]> By: Jim http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14746 Jim Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:32:34 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14746 An excellent article, couldn´t agree more. An excellent article, couldn´t agree more.

]]> By: greeny91 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14745 greeny91 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:27:38 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14745 Excellent article. Too bad no-one listens to a lone voice anymore. Excellent article.

Too bad no-one listens to a lone voice anymore.

]]> By: Gordon Lee http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14737 Gordon Lee Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:26:25 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14737 Wonderful article, why don't you contact "The Guardian", I'm sure you can get a job there - they can do with a level-headed and rational reporter. Maybe not, they might prefer the amateur rantings there present "reporter" produces. Wonderful article, why don’t you contact “The Guardian”, I’m sure you can get a job there - they can do with a level-headed and rational reporter. Maybe not, they might prefer the amateur rantings there present “reporter” produces.

]]> By: steve http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14736 steve Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:09:49 +0000 http://www.newcastle-online.com/2007/08/31/rag-week/#comment-14736 Didn't Winter go fighting before Middlesbrough matches when he was younger? I'm sure a Smoggie I knew said he wasn't an 'angel' and liked to go fighting. If so he is a hypocrite. He's a nobody - like his team. I hope they get relegated with the Makems. Didn’t Winter go fighting before Middlesbrough matches when he was younger? I’m sure a Smoggie I knew said he wasn’t an ‘angel’ and liked to go fighting. If so he is a hypocrite. He’s a nobody - like his team. I hope they get relegated with the Makems.

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