the jewish club

[luptic]

interesting story about ajax and including spurs on jewish racism on 5 live now.

 

[ibbz]

Was listening, very interesting, and interesting to note that they are NOT a "jewish" club, and their reasons for assuming the identity are totally opposite to ours!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/posts/Ajax-The-Jewish-club

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

Beitar Jerusalem?

 

[OmarsComing]

How are we a Jewish club if Ajax are not ?

 

[riggi]

 

[riggi]

oops wrong tel aviv ha.

I take it, the show will be online?

 

[TheChosenOne]

Surely Arsenal are a Jewish club ?

 

[riggi]

Surely Arsenal are a Jewish club ?

Ye but their fans went called dirty yids....i dont think.

 

[nailsy]

So

oops wrong tel aviv ha.

I take it, the show will be online?

You can download it as a Podcast now.

 

[riggi]

My point meaning, other people considered us a jewish club before we did....i think.

 

[nailsy]

My point meaning, other people considered us a jewish club before we did....i think.

Sorry Riggi - I don't know where 'So' came from in my post, I was just replying about the Podcast. Fat fingers I guess.

 

[riggi]

Sorry Riggi - I don't know where 'So' came from in my post, I was just replying about the Podcast. Fat fingers I guess.

no problemo.

 

[worcestersauce]

How are we a Jewish club if Ajax are not ?

We aren't a Jewish club and never have been, when I grew up supporting Spurs it was never even mentioned except by West Ham fans who thought everyone from Tottenham was a Jew. We do have many Jewish fans as do Arsenal but then we would wouldn't we, with a large local Jewish population, no our "Yid" identity comes from location not club.
Didn't listen to the debate on 5-live but I'll bet nobody made that clear as nobody in the media really has a clue about that as nobody in the media comes from Tottenham.

 

[TheChosenOne]

Johnny Speight - who created "Till death us do part" and the lead character Alf Garnett who was a West 'Am fan and hated them "Jews up at Spurs" plus every other minority group whether was by race, religion, culture or sexuality.

Warren Mitchell, a Jew of Russian Jewish descent ironically played Alf was in fact born in Stoke Newington (my old stamping ground) and also a Spurs Supporter. Back in those days that locality usually meant that you were either a Tottenham or an Arsenal fan. Very rarely anything else. If you were you were an odd ball.

 

[Spursking]

We should be proud to be a Jewish Club. At least I am proud of that.

 

[Lilbaz]

I'm proud we have a great mix of fans. Cypriots, blacks, gays, muslim, catholic, atheist every type you can imagine, we got the whole set. The name yids is a defence to them all and i personally don't link it just to our jewish fan base. I am proud to be a yid, it means you are a spurs fan and your background, colour, religion doesnt matter.

 

[worcestersauce]

We should be proud to be a Jewish Club. At least I am proud of that.

Its not a matter of being proud or not. I am proud of the fact we have a large Jewish support as we have but its not the same thing.