I feel it only fair I post this from the Tiocfaidh Ár Lá fanzine forum. It's in reference to the London lad who actually has pro-Bohs connections who was posting on that Huddleboard I post on. Just read the thread on it and thought I would share, so it would seem it happened but was quickly nipped in the bud. It would seem the person spreading the stuff about Rovers had his own motives. TAL fanzine is made up of ex-Anti Fascist Action members so if there was a severe Nazi presence they wouldn't have lasted long so I would lean towards this being the truth.
I am curious about what has motivated this overreaction to a non-incident that was nipped in the bud by other Rovers fans having a quiet word with the eejit that was giving the Nazi salute. The whole thing involved one guy and a couple of his idiotic pals who joined in. They were spotted by Marxman, who came into the pub and told me what they were up to. I immediately brought it to the attention of a couple of the older Rovers lads that I'm friendly with... they responded by having a quiet word with the fella. There were no further repeats of the offensive behaviour. There must have been 300-400 around that pub at the time and we're supposed to judge all of them by the behaviour of a handful? That is just nonsense.
I was in the main Rovers section during the match and there was not a hint of racism from the Rovers fans during the match. They sang from start to finish and were applauded at the end by the Tottenham fans. It was a brilliant day and night.
We had hardly left the pub to make our way to the ground, when one guy with a pro-Bohs agenda who spent the day in the pub with us and enjoyed the company of TALsters and TAL-minded Rovers/Celtic fans started posting on facebook about this non-event as if it had been a mass manifestation of racism by Rovers fans, when in fact it probably involved at most 5 lads. Apart from being a distortion of the facts, it's also just ****ing two-faced to have spent the day with us and then go away and start spreading **** about all Rovers fans being racists and nazis.
A retort that might be applied to this situation is: What the **** did you do about it? Did you confront the 'fascists'? Did you even see the incident?
The answers are Nothing, No and No...
This is just a deliberate attempt to tar all Rovers fans with the same brush.
Every support has its arseholes and eejits, Celtic and Bohs included, as well as Rovers.
A minor issue is being blown out of proportion here because some people support Bohs and hate Rovers and see this as an excuse to stir the same old pot of ****e.
Fu*king grow up!
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