United Thread - 2023/24

[remember arthur mann]

You never heard of Douglas Bader? Philistine!

Course we have, a mate of that Meinhof bloke.

 

[mcfc_ms]

 

[ChicagoBlue]

It probably wasn't considered offensive because there weren't many black people in the UK.

Did it ever really have an innocent meaning though? Enid Blyton's three little Golliwogs was first published the following year. One of the title characters had the same name.

Not sure it was ever really innocent.

Although TBF, naming dogs that was better than having racially segregated regiments.

History has a way of distorting “innocent.”

Slavery was once as normal as it is considered abhorrent now, but we don’t get to go back and change history. It is there to learn from and, hopefully, improve upon.

Sadly, the once popular method of “acknowledging, while not repeating” appears to be trying to be accomplished by erasing any history today’s politically correct snowflakes deem objectionable.

Maybe we should demolish the pyramids in Egypt? I heard they were built by slave labour!

The dog’s name was not even unique in the annals of well-known dogs, but we acknowledge the name is probably not appropriate today, even though the race that finds it objectionable appears to like to use it as frequently as possible.

Regardless, removing the dog’s tombstone because of its name is petty and overly officious, in my humble opinion.

And, fwiw, I feel exactly the same way about Confederate statues in the USA, even though as a “Yankee” I’m glad the South was defeated, of course.

The older I get, the more appreciation I have for history and the greater context I have obtained for both world history and my own.

 

[give it to gordon]

Sky just said Jason Wilcox has resigned at Southampton. Southampton arent impressed with the rags

 

[bluemc]

The rags are desperately trying to morph into the thing they claim to hate......

 

[Blue and Proud]

Hearing that Rags are bringing in Jason Wilcox from Southampton. Another ex-City employee, they just want to be us.

 

[discopop]

Didn't Kenneth Moore play him in a film about Bader's life?

Kenneth Moore also went on to play Dave Whelan in the biopic of that infamous Wembley game a bit like Dave he never told anyone about it.

 

[Blue and Proud]

They started by buying our transfer targets, that didn’t work so now they want our ex employees. Still won’t work because they are a joke of a club with no original idea how to move forward other than just copy City.

 

[give it to gordon]

They started by buying our transfer targets, that didn’t work so now they want our ex employees. Still won’t work because they are a joke of a club with no original idea how to move forward other than just copy City.

Why copy City we represent everything that's bad and wrong with football

 

[citizen_maine]

Why copy City we represent everything that's bad and wrong with football

but we're fucking good at it!