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Author Topic: Football fans and the refugee crisis  (Read 21252 times)

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2015, 08:18:09 PM »


How about if 50 Syrians moved into your street though ??

If they're anything like the Bulgarians, bring 'em on! ;)

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2015, 08:19:03 PM »
Hmm I can see both sides of the argument here .
What I will say is it's easy to make a banner hold it up pre kick off and get on TV (sky will love this), zoom in, Tyler scripted comments, fade background music and cut to commercial.

How about if 50 Syrians moved into your street though ??

I'd go round and welcome them.
And flog them the latest issue  ;)

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2015, 08:21:40 PM »
How about if 50 Syrians moved into your street though ??

Which is a good reason why it is important to support the pro-refugee stance.  The refugees are going to keep coming it is a case of trying to manage the situation as best we all can, rather than 50 people turning up on one street.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2015, 08:25:31 PM »
Ding - Dong .
Door opens .

"Heroes and villains , villa fanzine , latest issue "  ;D

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2015, 08:26:54 PM »
Ding - Dong .
Door opens .

"Heroes and villains , villa fanzine , latest issue "  ;D

Yes, you've already said that and it wasn't funny then.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2015, 08:28:41 PM »
Ding - Dong .
Door opens .

"Heroes and villains , villa fanzine , latest issue "  ;D

And toast the sale in Syrian vodka.
Several times.



Note - I haven't googled whether Syria is teetotal or not, I'm just going for the gag, no matter how lame.

Offline silhillvilla

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2015, 08:30:08 PM »
How about if 50 Syrians moved into your street though ??

Which is a good reason why it is important to support the pro-refugee stance.  The refugees are going to keep coming it is a case of trying to manage the situation as best we all can, rather than 50 people turning up on one street.
I agree but you get my point .
Quite ironically I believe the "Je Suis Charlie " banner was at Leicester away last year

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2015, 08:34:47 PM »
Hmm I can see both sides of the argument here .
What I will say is it's easy to make a banner hold it up pre kick off and get on TV (sky will love this), zoom in, Tyler scripted comments, fade background music and cut to commercial.

How about if 50 Syrians moved into your street though ??

I'd probably ignore them as I do with my other neighbours. Comes with living in a city.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2015, 08:44:45 PM »
Ding - Dong .
Door opens .

"Heroes and villains , villa fanzine , latest issue "  ;D

And toast the sale in Syrian vodka.
Several times.



Note - I haven't googled whether Syria is teetotal or not, I'm just going for the gag, no matter how lame.

It most certainly isn't. There's Syrian beer, wine and Arak, which is a near-lethal aniseed spirit. The food in Syria is also the best in the Middle East, which is just one of the reasons (along with the Syrians' general friendliness and hospitality) I hope Birmingham gets its own 'little Aleppo'.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2015, 08:50:24 PM »
As long as they bring Syrian hamsters with them, they are welcome.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2015, 08:55:46 PM »
Stated in off-topic but I'll say here again. The anti-Brigada posters on the H&V facebook post of that guardian link really bug me.

Shouting off about Celtic, the IRA and our veterans being more important than anyone from outside the country.

Kids are fucking drowning in the sea as families escape war zones, and people are so ignorant.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #26 on: September 03, 2015, 08:57:26 PM »
Will the banners be written on the back of Je suis Charlie ones left over from earlier in the year?

The humanitarian crisis of Syrian refugees (and the exploitation of economic migrants from across the Middle East and Africa) needs to be dealt with immediately, but banners at football grounds simply smacks of bandwagon-jumping, not least because the grounds themselves unfortunately remain repositories for significant numbers of our fellow citizens who would make those in desperate need of refuge anything but welcome.

I don't see it like that. The appalling scenes and photographs that have been shown over the last few days seems to have taken its toll on us as human beings. We shouldn't be worrying about how many refugees there are or where they're coming come. These are clearly very desperate people and if you aren't touched by their plight then its bordering on sociopathic tendencies.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #27 on: September 03, 2015, 09:34:23 PM »
They are people. They are suffering. Help them. End of.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #28 on: September 03, 2015, 09:36:11 PM »
They are people. They are suffering. Help them. End of.

Exactly.

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Re: Football fans and the refugee crisis
« Reply #29 on: September 03, 2015, 09:43:29 PM »
They are people. They are suffering. Help them. End of.

Why, oh why, can't people see that?  Everywhere I look at the moment I see suffering of some sort or another.  I try to remain upbeat but sometimes I fall into deep despair.  The image of that child will haunt me forever.  At the moment I really hate this world.

 


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