Nope, it's a silly post end of.

If you took Leeds, Wakefield and Cas fans and got there true opinions I suspect all three clubs would have a similar number of anti-semites and general racists - what that percentage would be I don't know.

Also the citizens of Leeds have no moral high ground to stand on when discussing this ages - your roundball team has the biggest selection of thugs, racists and general richards of any club in England and that takes some doing - so to judge other places as hotbeds of racism is a touch rich - though sadly typical of a large minority of Leeds people. Very sad.

"You shouldn't judge the population of a city by the actions and opinions of a minority of its citizens"


"And now I shall end my statement by doing just that..."

Epic self-contradiction fail.

Leeds Utd draw more supporters without a Leeds postcode than with a Leeds postcode. We have massive numbers from Bradford, Wakefield, Dewsbury, Batley, Doncaster, Castleford, etc, etc. In the 80's and 90's a disproportionate number of people linked with and arrested for Leeds Utd football violence came from Wakefield and the "five towns". What does that tell you ?

Vastman


The Oxo Cube of RLFans

It is a funny old world,I live in Huddersfield and have never heard any anti semetic charting at Leeds game and i am also a Jew and have a star of David round my neck and have never been racially abused by my local community.

It is a funny thing i remember the late 1970's and only 1980's going to Elland Road and there were real racist anti semetic fans there, watching Leeds playing Spurs the Kop would sing Spurs were on there way to Belsen etc. It was haunt outside the ground for every far right nutter from the National Front and the British Movement. But from what I can remember Leeds at the time were a Jewish club owned by a Jewish family the name I cannot remember.

But times have moved on there will always be the odd sad case, but I feel if we ignore them they will crawl back under the stone they have come from.

Silver?

Mr Leslie Silver was chairman of Leeds united when utd won the championship with Wilkinson as manager. Owned and ran a large company called kalon paints.
Sounds like a good all round bloke, I believe he was awarded an Obe.

Ref Mr Leslie Silver.
A pal of mine has contacted me with more information on Mr Silver, apparently he was in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War . So all the puerile anti Semites take that on board.

Millions from the Indian sub-continent, Africa & West Indies fought for the allies as well.

Don't quite understand the significance of this post?

When I was a very young man, I delivereed the Sunday papers to Leslie Silver's house, he always had time to say hello and ask how you were. Much later in life, I worked for his son Mark on a number of projects and he is an equally decent fellow.

Regrettably, racism exists in all walks of life and, to some degree, in all geographic locations. It is in our tribal nature to be prejudiced and it takes education to get past that flaw. The problem is we can't teach the vast majority of our children to read and write, let alone to obtain social empathy.

You've been waiting years to slip that one in, haven't you?

And have you checked out the arrest lists lately of where exactly a lot of those trouble-causing Leeds United fans come from ?

Wakefield ? Cas ? Fev ? Scarborough ? Cheltenham etc.