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I put the question to Chatgpt as to whether any clubs had banned the chant. It said:
There have been specific responses by football clubs in the UK to stop or discourage chants about Tommy Robinson, though most are requests and disciplinary actions rather than formal stadium-wide bans on the chant itself. Here’s what’s been reported:
⚽️ Club-level responses
🔹 Ashton United FC (Non-League)
The club issued a strong statement condemning pro-Tommy Robinson chants heard during a match, saying such behaviour “has no place in football or society” and vowed to ban anyone identified as taking part. This reflects a formal disciplinary approach to stop the chants and exclude those responsible.🔹 Luton Town FC (2018)
While not a formal ban, Luton Town’s CEO publicly asked fans to stop singing Tommy Robinson’s name, describing the chants as “hugely disappointing” and urging supporters to leave politics out of matches. This was a clear club-level plea to discourage that chant among their fanbase.🧾 Broader context
• Clubs can and do discipline fans under FA rules if chanting crosses the line into discriminatory or abusive behaviour. The FA emphasises that discriminatory chanting by supporters is a breach of rules, and clubs can be held responsible if they fail to act — which often leads clubs to ban individual supporters rather than ban specific chants by name.• Formal bans on certain chants (like Tommy Robinson) typically aren’t written into stadium regulations specifically by club name — unlike historical cases where particular songs (e.g., “Billy Boys”) were officially prohibited because of sectarian content.
📌 Summary
Club Action Taken Type of Policy
Ashton United FC Condemned chants and warned that participants will be banned. Disciplinary, supporter bansLuton Town FC Publicly urged fans to stop the chants Official request from club management
General FA rules Clubs responsible for preventing discriminatory/abusive chanting Regulatory framework, not chant-specific
So while no top professional club has formally banned “Tommy Robinson chants” in a rulebook phrased that way, clubs have condemned such chants and taken action (including bans on individual supporters) to discourage and penalise them.
And that’s it. The problem is that the racists won’t care about bans and punishments. They don’t have feelings because they’re sub-human!
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C’mon AWG, how would you feel if the stand was full of aggressive young men singing, to the tune of ‘Rule Britannia’, something like:
You old b@stards, just f-off and die,
Just like a dry turd falling in the riv-er-side
Etc.And as they did so, maybe people pointed and looked at you, and laughed, and then the drummer joined in to encourage them.
I expect you wouldn’t feel too good, especially after paying decent money for a nice day out, maybe with the grandkids in tow, who’d start asking you questions about it.
That’s what it’s like for those who feel threatened by Tommy-ten-names, not just those in the stands, but those lads playing for the Iron, ffs. And there’s nothing they can do about it.
But in the spirit of goodwill and balance which forever characterizes our happy crew, here is a truly heartwarming moment amid all the AI stuff of bears, babies, Jagger, etc. which shows there are good people who care, and as AWG’s might say, ‘have grown a pair’.
Happy New Year!
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1167058318873877
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Virgins and wise men in ‘ull??
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“Flags not patriotic enough from certain angles”
“Gravity remains stubbornly globalist”Priceless! Qualifies for Private Eye’s ‘Funny Old World”.
Someone had it right when they called this an age of golden stupidity. It sometimes seems like the whole country is either in psychotherapy or needs it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Soo
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Hmmm… I wonder why non-football isn’t as busy as it used to be.
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Keeper Pym did well and gave his back line confidence. We need someone like him. Good keepers make big differences.
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People fly flags for different reasons. I regularly have a flag featuring Mickey Mouse in the colours of the lgbtq+ rainbow fluttering high above my chimney pot!
Currently, some are ‘loving’ their flags because it signals to others that they have grievances. Many of those grievances are legitimate. People care about how much money they have in their pockets to pay the ever-escalating food and utility bills. And the state of the NHS is another worry – how long for a doctor’s appointment / operation, etc.
Everything is in such a mess. For the past 14 years the majority of media organisations and the bold campaigns – social and otherwise – of their often tax-exiled owners and journos told us to vote for Cameron/May/Johnson and Truss. And on top of that, to go out and vote for Brexit because the EU was the problem. Now, will these people U-turn and admit they made a series of catastrophic errors of judgment? Course they won’t! So they have to find somebody/something else to blame.
Step forward the migrant. It’s the kids in dinghies and grotty hotels who are the ones getting away with it, and making our lives a misery. Here we are, patriotic little Brits (look, you can see our flags!), being ignored, while they’re in 5* hotels, in the lap of luxury. Never mind that the Tories stopped legal routes and created a backlog of applications, so the kids need to be put somewhere while they’re processed, or that the ‘hotels’ are overcrowded shtholes.
But really. As if this was ‘the problem’. As if this were the reason your bills have gone up, or you’re waiting for your operation, which in all probability, will be done by a migrant doctor, while you’re cared for by a migrant nurse.
When times are tough, the right is worried that people might get angry and want to change society. People might stand up and rebel, breaking not just their contract with society to be peaceful and law-abiding, but perhaps breaking the law, and shop windows too, and maybe even voting for a radical party of the left.
So, they get people to look elsewhere, and the simplest of solutions is to blame people who aren’t like us. The masses always respond to that. We’ve seen it before, from the Jews to the New Age Travellers. Farage know this well, and has seized the moment to jump on the bandwaggon of opportunism, in a bid to whip up the mob for his own political fame and fortune.
The religious ‘fraternity’ like it too. The idea that it’s not politics but those of a different religion who are to blame for our contemporary woes is always a favourite. Remember pre-Brexit, how Les and the Jonathans were putting it about that 50,000 Turks were about to come?
But really, flags, who needs ‘em? Performative patriotism in your own front garden is so un-British.
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