[EastLondonTerrier]

the shit-hole chant is stupid but I can live with it. It's not hurting anybody, it's just a chant devoid of intelligence and reeks of banal stupidity. Give me 'you only work in the summer' at bournemouth fans any day of the week, that's a proper chant. What I can't sit abide by and watch is blatant and nasty racism, which is what it is, lets make no bones about it. Yid is racist. My Dad is 62 and probably went to town matches during that era and he said he witnessed a lot worse than what I've saw, telling me stories when you just couldn't go to some town games or a particularly vile story where a group of town fans ambushed an opposition fan after a game and beat him to death. The opposition team name I forget but that kind of stuff scares me enough that I won't just sit here and not vent my anger at us. We are a better club than that. We haven't got 'family club of the year' several times for no reason. Thankfully these instances are usually few and bar between, I did hear one individual chant during a minutes silence for manager keith alexander at a gillingham game that 'hes a black bastard' years ago but its now limited to abusing ex-leeds players. Last year at fulham I was down the bottom and everyone decided to stand up for the whole game so my old man decided to go near the top to avoid this situation but we didn't manage to avoid the problems once again. London games used to be a great occasion, loads of town fans enjoying themselves and singing their hearts out, now it seems like a big day out for some who love to start a bit of trouble and then complain at the day out they're getting, which is a huge shame. Stewards were daft to do what they did, but their club sold them down the river with trying to police an overspill, with some fans seeing a chance to put it on a bunch of people on part-time jobs and intimidate them to make them seem a bit bigger. I think saying 'no one challenges them' as an excuse is poor show even if you're not excusing them, we need to do more as a club to root this out. Calling an ex-leeds player a yid is one level away from racially abusing a black player with the n-word. It's 2015, I hope this is the last time I have to say this at a town match.

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Smith has no competition for his place and has got complacent. Was awful all game yesterday. Investment should be made to get a right-back who can compete with him or another centre-back to challenge hudson and lynch as atm are we trusting wallace or crainie to come in for them and be just as good? Powell doesn't trust them.