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Did anyone else on here hear that muppett yelling abuse at Lanzano? It was good to see and hear other fans telling him to shut it and get behind his team.

Can't believe in this day and age people find it acceptable to yell "Fu**ing wap" at a player

didn't hear that no, no excuse for it. 

Has this guy worked out yet that we have an Italian manager?

F***ing brain donor.

That's well out of order, unless the chap was expressing his frustration at not being able to connect to the internet on his phone.

Genius.   :D

If you think that's bad you should have been at Wolves away a couple of years ago

Fucking disgusting

We appear to have a racist contingent amongst us.

As do many clubs unfortunately

I remember that clearly.

Had I known their names I would have ensured that was the last football match they ever attended. Absolute scum.

As an Indian town fan, this saddens me!

However as I have got older I have learnt to accept that in all walks of life, and all football clubs you will have a minority few!  And at least it is a minority!

The closest I have got was on the tube on the way back from a QPR away game a few years back, towards the end of the season in a year we got relegated!

The guy in question had a harelip looked worser for wear which is no excuse but would not shut up until many of us told him too, shouting about Lanzano being useless, really laying on the italian racial slur which attacks my heritage. Deserved to be lamped. Anyone know what the trouble at the back was, seems a certain someone with glasses always attracts trouble perhaps was his old man though today?

What the hell is a wap? I know that guy his name's Ray I think, not the brightest guy.

Which one?

The guy that was shouting at Lanzano.

What's a wap?

I know of him also....total wankspanner...a wap was slang mainly during war time for Italians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAXv5CRocvg

The guy above shows real class in the face of massive grief....sorry to be a bit OTT but was he racist in anger...some people need to get a grip if a game of footy brings out there bad side.....the guy above had every reason to cause carnage with a few ill spoken words,he chose words off wisdom and to be honest he didn't need to.

Wireless Application Protocol, does he have one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs

It is actually Wop...always thought it was Wap.

At the same time that the twat who was abusing Lanzano was at it another complete wanker (Phil Mitchell lookalike with a croaky voice) starting moaning and groaning and got into an argument with another punter about the relative merits of Smith & Lanzano. Not 100% sure but the subsequent ruck may have been as a result of this. Phil Mitchell was completly in the wrong. An absolute moron!

Oh that guy was an absolute nob head, was right by me. Kept singing chants on his own, which never succeeded. Was a racist scumbag thats for sure, got even worse when Abdullah came on :(

To be honest with you all types of negative national stereotype name calling is wrong, however you see it on here most days. As an example the other day some stupid prick was making some retarted anti 'jock' statement, doesn't bother me just highlights the particular board member's lack of intelligence, racism/general being a bigot tends to do that. Usually the person dishing out the abuse justifies it in some 'it's just a joke' how can jock/mick/paki/wop be offensive kind of way?

Go up to Glasgow and call someone a fucking jock and see if the person you say it to takes offence, likewise with an asian you call a 'paki' or italian a 'wop'.

Calling an asian asterix is racist?

It is the way things are said sometimes. That was pure venom and said in a way to cause ultimate offense.

And that is the key. It's not what is said but how it is said. I could call my mate a 'stupid jock cunt' down the pub and he will laugh it off because he knows its bollocks and there's no malice. Some one else could say exactly the same words in a different situation and those words could take on a whole new meaning.

He may well be of my generation and goes by the nickname Bunger.

Wireless Application Protocol.

I think the thicko at the match meant WOP (without Passport).

Sign of the times I am afraid.  It's all gone PC OTT.

it goes waap

Was at a game at Rotherham in the late seventies when there was a bit of trouble with some away fans around us starting trouble. Bunger warned them once but they continued to cause hassle, he then flew off the terracing head-butting one (knocking him to the grond)  and they scarpered. Think he was from Farringdon.

There was a guy who moved next to me in the second half who shouted "get a move on you fucking zulus" when Burton's forwards were taking a while with a free kick.

Ashbury I believe. I had the dubious privilege of going to court with him at Newport one season. We went on the piss straight after and could very easily have got banged up again after one or two altercations with the locals.

Wasn't he from France?

Gaul

which was france wasnt it?

You're kidding right?

No...France was known as Gaul when the Romans invaded Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul

Many French people still have names related in some ways to the days of Gaul.

President De Gaulle possibly one of them :hmmm:

I was actually being sarcastic as I thought that this was common knowledge. Obviousely not.

I would say 'wop' was derogatory not rascist. Bit like when somebody calls me a kraut, its been heard so often its like 'meh so what'

Talking about racist abuse, been out an about in B'mth, casino etc since I got home. Black taxi driver wouldn't take me home unless I paid upfront, needless to say I told him to fuck right off and gave the driver(white) that did take me a £1.50 tip. You racist cunt :D

what is this i don't even

Sorry i meant that gaul was where france is now.

Ceasar put an end to them though. The series Rome told a decent enough story about the invasion of gaul.

oh and it wasnt just france they covered it was Austria, Switzerland parts of germany and north italy, though the romans did have different names for each part of Gaul.

 :)

Pissed up rant, think I'm still ratted, yuk

As the Kraut said ( ;)) Calling someone a Wap/Wop/Waap etc is not racist as it is not singling out their race as such which is white/caucasian. It is singling out and insulting their nationality.

It is some other kind of 'ism' but not racism. Jingoism? Probably not but it's the best I can come up with.

Not forgetting Belguim, the British Isles, northern Spain & Portugal, the Balkans and parts of northern Turkey.

I know you fascists like to rewrite history to suit your own agenda, but Gaul is not the same as Galles as in Pay de Galles, French for Wales, or indeed Gaelic.

I think you'll find that that I am right in that the common celtic culture extended to all the areas of modern Europe that have been mentioned.

The spread of common culture, doesn't mean they are the same people, or that there have been mass migrations of people throughout prehistory.  It's a bit like saying the English and Indians are the same people because they share a love of cricket, curry and democracy.

I never said that they were "the same people" did I Reg? I referred to a common culture didn't I Reg?

Where axactly are you going with this?

Racism covers nationality as well as skin colour, ethnicity, race and so on.

Belguim yes, british isles was known as britannia and the spain was ran by carthage wasnt it? and the turkish "barbarians" were thracians. not too sure about the balkans but am pretty sure gaul never went that far

Racism does not cover nationality, it covers race. That's why it's called racism. You could possibly call it nationalism but not racism.

I'm sure the Irish will love you thinking that Hibernia was part of Britannia.  Best not to enter into the minefield of Balkan history, you'll be bound to upset somebody.

Gaul as you put it, geographically covered most of modern day France however the Celtic culture of which I was referring to, which included the Gaulish tribes, extended much, much further as I have already stated.

So why are people labelled rascists when they call asian people 'p a k i s'  :hmmm:

Because they are a different race?

Eastern Turkey was part of Persia western Turkey was part of the greek empire Thracians were a tribe of People from south eastern Macedonia where Thessalonica is

Then the romans took it all

Racism is different to xenophobia, which is what I think this would be...

Thrace was always a bit of a nebulous concept, but was in parts of present day Greece Turkey and Bulgaria.  The Bulgarians are proud of their Thracian inheritance, and look after the archaeology and artefacts.

Because as far as the sort of people who use the term 'P***s' are concerned i.e racists, the people they are aiming it at may be nationals of Pakistan. However, they could just as easily be from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or even places like Uganda, Kenya or Trinidad (a lot of Asians have migrated to/from those countries over the years.) For the racists though, it is sufficient to lable them all as 'P***s'. To them, the actual country they are from is irrelevant. So in this sense, 'P***s' is clearly a racist term.

An "ism" a day, gets the lefties out to play...

just onanism for the more right-centric individuals

 ;D I just had to look that up, very good!