Last week my colleague Nick Lowles kick-started a campaign to do something about the incredibly poor response by Newcastle United Football Club to a very disturbing incident at their ground earlier this year.
Nick and many others were disappointed with the failure of Newcastle United to deal severely with a fan who directed antisemitic abuse at visiting Tottenham Hotspur fans on 18 August. The fan abused visiting fans by repeatedly giving a Nazi salute and motioning with his hands as though he was turning on the gas, a sick reference to Hitler’s gas chambers.
Nick’s action has prompted the usual angry response from the morons at the EDL, who have long given up pretending that they even believe their own lies that they are some kind of “non-racist” gang of drunken thugs.
One drunken thug in particular is upset and that is Alan Spence who is the biggest of cheeses in Newcastle EDL. And of course, a racist thug too.
Last December Spence was jailed along with others for an attack on the Tyneside Irish Centre.
You can upset most EDL members by being black, Asian, Muslim, gay, Jewish, progressive, educated, caring, law-abiding or any other working part of modern Britain.
Spence obviously does not mind a bit of Antisemitism. After all, he was a bodyguard to Nick Griffin for long enough to know that there is a massive Jewish conspiracy to stop people behaving like thugs at football grounds and that the Muslims are in on it too. And the blacks, and gays, and the progressives etc, etc…..
He must have had a terrible night last night what with three of England’s goals being scored by a black footballers’. I suggest Spence moves to another country entirely.
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