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How can the sweaties say this isn't racism?

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Red_John | 12:02 Mon 28th Mar 2011 | News
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http://news.bbc.co.uk.../scotland/9438033.stm
Lobbing Banana's, all be it illegal ones, on to the pitch and making monkey noises is sort of racist, surely??
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Yes it is. It wouldn't be tolerated at our club, I know that much.
Nobody is sure how the banana got onto the pitch and the crowd were merely booing Neymar's play-acting...............

How is that racist ?
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Well the "booing" sounded like something out of a Tarzan film to me and the banana must have been thrown onto the pitch as footbal pitches are not your natural habitat of your nana or are you telling me there is a very short banana tree there?
If you'll forgive me Red_John, your "Sweaties" could be seen as somewhat intolerant too.
It could have come from a fan from either side, or a neutral; it could have been kicked there from anyone on the bench/stewards, etc. (sportspeople often eat bananas as an energy boost).....did you see it thrown, geez................erm, Red_John ?

I believe that most Scottish people and football fans will have seen black people often enough to let them play football without the attendant 'monkey-noises' so prevalent in the past.
I'm sure a £100,000 a week footballer is really cut up about someone throwing a banana at him.

Duuh.

He was probably just thinking to himself ...

I've earned more money TODAY than that twit has made ALL YEAR.
Do racists still throw bananas???

Surely that's a little outdated now (it was the choice of insult for racists from the 70s who held black people to be ape-like). I would've thought bigots would've moved on to something a little more esoteric by now.

R: 'Sweaties'. What is this and why does this apply to Scottish people? I saw large groups of Scots fans around the Emerites stadium last night, and none of them appeared to be sweating.
Sweaties ... Sweaty Socks ... Jocks ... Scottish people
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in the navy they are known as frisps (those from scotland)
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As sprinter says, It's a term of endearment douglas. Comparable to us being called Poms by the Aussies.
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I suppose you noticed that the match wasn't played at Hampden Park? There may well have been as many English football fans there - to see Brazil, of course - as there were Scots. If I remember the old "banana days", and I do, such incidents were far more common at English grounds than Scottish ones.
bannanas are illegal?
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only the bent ones bednobs
The Jocks have history of this kind of thing:

When Graeme Souness became Rangers boss he broke down barriers by signing a catholic player (Mo Johnston) and a black player (Mark Walters).

Walters had bananas thrown at him on his debut at Celtic Park and again a fortnight later away at Hearts

http://news.scotsman....-for-Scots.3628273.jp
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Mind you, the Scottish FA comment that "Scotland supporters are known for impeccable behaviour" is somewhat daft.

So, there's no trouble at Scottish football grounds then (e.g. the recent Celtic - Rangers games)? Also, they seem to have very short or selective memories of the Home Internationals.
The problem is, that banging on about it plays into the hands of these sort of people.

If the banana was just lobbed to the side and everything carries on then the wind is taken out of their sails.

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