Leicester Mercury’s Politically Incorrect Report From The 1969 FA Cup Final

[Drew Peacock]

I’ve not felt as bad after a defeat for a while, as I did after after yesterday’s loss. So I decided to look through some of my old man’s newspaper cuttings, which he gave me just before he carked it, as a sort of therapy. 

Football has been sanitised a fair bit since our last appearance in an FA Cup final, perhaps mostly in a negative way imo, but I’m glad newspaper reporting, and maybe life in general, is a little more sensitive now. ?

 

 

Edited 19 March 2018 by Drew Peacock

[Countryfox]

2 minutes ago, Drew Peacock said:

I’ve not felt as bad after a defeat for a while, as I did after after yesterday’s loss. So I decided to look through some of my old man’s newspaper cuttings, which he gave me just before he carked it, as a sort of therapy. 

Football has been sanitised a fair bit since our last appearance in an FA Cup final, perhaps mostly in a negative way imo, but I’m glad newspaper reporting, and maybe life in general is now a little more sensitive.

 

Unbelievable  ! ...  just read that out to Mrs CF ...   she thought I’d just made it up !  

[Drew Peacock]

Just now, Countryfox said:

 

Unbelievable  ! ...  just read that out to Mrs CF ...   she thought I’d just made it up !  

I had to read it a few times myself! ?

[the fox]

I hate international breaks!

[Drew Peacock]

2 minutes ago, the fox said:

I hate international breaks!

It was just a diversion tactic to take my mind off reading endless whinging on here, despite the fact that yesterday we played one of the top teams in England in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, and could be considered unlucky not to have gone through.

[Guest]

Pretty sure 'spastic' (and 'invalid') was still a medically accepted term at that time.  Give it another couple of decades and we'll see how  grandkids react to the words "handicapped' 'differently-abled' etc etc.

[Phube]

15 minutes ago, winchesterton said:

Pretty sure 'spastic' (and 'invalid') was still a medically accepted term at that time.  Give it another couple of decades and we'll see how  grandkids react to the words "handicapped' 'differently-abled' etc etc.

 

True. Read the piece replacing spastic with Cerebral Palsy sufferer. And the article is fine, more depressing is the fact that Wembley (football) wasn’t accessible for wheelchair users back then.

 

Edit: let’s not forget it was called the Spastics Society for ages!

Edited 19 March 2018 by Phube

[Countryfox]

 

Wonder if ‘young’ Mark is on here now ??...    

[SheppyFox]

Harsh! 

[Farrington fox]

I’m sure I remember small charity envelopes for monetary  donations to the ‘Spastic Society’

[Buce]

1 hour ago, Countryfox said:

 

Unbelievable  ! ...  just read that out to Mrs CF ...   she thought I’d just made it up !  

 

I know.

 

Imagine us being in a Cup Final.

[WigstonWanderer]

Language changes markedly over time. Younger generations only know the word spastic as an insult.

[Stadt]

Wasn't there a song or nursery rhyme with spastic in?

[HighPeakFox]

Given some lazy kneejerkers have called me PC, you'd think someone like me would get het up about it, but I really have no issue with the wording on that. After all, Ian Dury himself (a polio sufferer) wrote a song called 'Spasticus Autisticus' (out of anger admittedly).

 

Was the article hateful? No. In which case no issue to my mind.

[Drew Peacock]

5 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Given some lazy kneejerkers have called me PC, you'd think someone like me would get het up about it, but I really have no issue with the wording on that. After all, Ian Dury himself (a polio sufferer) wrote a song called 'Spasticus Autisticus' (out of anger admittedly).

 

Was the article hateful? No. In which case no issue to my mind.

It's a fair point, and as has been said in other comments, meaning of words change.

Just seems shocking reading it today.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, Drew Peacock said:

It's a fair point, and as has been said in other comments, meaning of words change.

Just seems shocking reading it today.

Is it? I frankly find contemporary tabloids calling our own judiciary 'enemies of the people' far more shocking.

[Drew Peacock]

3 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Is it? I frankly find contemporary tabloids calling our own judiciary 'enemies of the people' far more shocking.

That too.

But if I read 'The Spastic' and 'Friendly little chat with the invalid' today, I'd be a bit shocked. 

That was my intended context.

[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, Drew Peacock said:

That too.

But if I read 'The Spastic' and 'Friendly little chat with the invalid' today, I'd be a bit shocked. 

That was my intended context.

Understood.

[Kinowe Soorie]

1 hour ago, Wookie said:

Wasn't there a song or nursery rhyme with spastic in?

Yeah, Humpty Dumpty the spastic

[Countryfox]

2 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Understood.

 

Finally ...   

[Trav Le Bleu]

Of course, nowadays, they'd have said spaz.

 

I miss the old days.

[yorkie1999]

12 hours ago, Farrington fox said:

I’m sure I remember small charity envelopes for monetary  donations to the ‘Spastic Society’

There was, it all changed when joey went on blue peter.

[davieG]

 

There was always a few of these around town back then.

 

In fact a mate of mine back then got knocked out by a passing guy for saying to one of them when drunk you're  not a spastic I've  just seen you around the corner.

[Drew Peacock]

20 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

There was, it all changed when joey went on blue peter.

Only people of a certain age will get this. Even the name Joey was an insult for a good few years during my childhood.

Edited 20 March 2018 by Drew Peacock

[yorkie1999]

Just now, Drew Peacock said:

Only people of a certain age will get this. Even the name Joey was an insult for a good few years during my childhood.

 that's right, but i didn't actually realise that spastic wasn't a medical term any more, my ignorance eh.