How Muslims are changing English football culture...

[MPH]

Must admit, I posted this thread to see who would bite...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

( its the close season. I'm bored....)

 

 

[Father Ted]

Football has always brought people and cultures together. It has done far more for the world in the last 100yrs than any religion in that respect. Why not make a programme celebrating that, instead of putting a handful of Muslims on a pedestal. They're not changing anything. Football is just doing what football does.

Probably the best and ONLY decent post MooseBreath has ever done

[Blue Maniac]

Must admit, I posted this thread to see who would bite...

( its the close season. I'm bored....)

I'm irritable in the summer. And winter.

And spring.

[Webbo]

I'm irritable in the summer. And winter.

And spring.

You BM? Never.

[Blue Maniac]

You BM? Never.

I know, hard to believe eh.

[Amin]

I have a lot of admiration for athletes that fast during Ramadan. 

[Guest MattP]

I have a lot of admiration for athletes that fast during Ramadan.

I'd have a lot more respect if they didn't seriously believe a load of bullshit written in a book hundreds of years ago.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Until more people can read an article like this without the above stupid reactions, you're still going to get "show racism the red card crap."

 

The article's vaguely interesting, it's topical because of Cisse's recent refusal to wear a pay-day loans sponsor, it's just broadening on a point. It's not being preachy and it hardly merits the typically cynical, moody, negative responses from predictably the same people.

 

You don't help yourselves, really, do you?

You don't appear to be very rational do you? Nothing wrong with those posts. You appear to racially blinkered, and take offence at anyone who criticizes anyone ethnic. Very sad reaction.

[purpleronnie]

You don't appear to be very rational do you? Nothing wrong with those posts. You appear to racially blinkered, and take offence at anyone who criticizes anyone ethnic. Very sad reaction.

Pot....kettle

 

[Danno]

Did anyone else see the thing between Ribery and Boateng where Boateng poured champagne all over him? Promised to never speak to him again until they realised it was non-alcoholic

[MPH]

Did anyone else see the thing between Ribery and Boateng where Boateng poured champagne all over him? Promised to never speak to him again until they realised it was non-alcoholic

 

 

 

[Bellend Sebastian]

Did anyone tune in?

[Finnegan]

What on earth was wrong with Moosebreaths reply?

Do you disagree with it?

Non story for me and completely pointless. I bet most of them are Friday Muslims anyway.

 

Parlty, as with MPH, I was fishing to be honest.

 

But his post is a little bit typically melodramatic. Nobody's putting Muslim footballers on a pedestal, they're not being treated as special. Someone's just written an article about a few things that

developed in English football as a result of an increasing number of Islamic footballers over the last two decades. It's just topical because of Cisse's recent objection to a payday loan sponsor.

 

It's a completely benign story that a small but obvious handful of people (surprise surprise, here's MattP, MouseBreath and "Death To Ragheads" Stu here to take the bait!) have decided to pop up to call senseless, even though absolutely nobody - not even a wishy, washy liberal type! - had gone "OH WOW, LOOK AT THIS ARTICLE, MUSLIM FOOTBALLERS ARE AWESOME!"

[MooseBreath]

Not just an article, a tv programme too, from the BBC, at the license fee payers expense. With a clear tilt towards crediting Muslims for qualities which exist within football, in my interpretation.

[Pride_Of_The_Midlands]

All the Liverpool players eat halal meat because the team doctor is Muslim.

 

Thoughts?

[Bobby Hundreds]

The English Premier League sponsored by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

[Jordan]

Not just an article, a tv programme too, from the BBC, at the license fee payers expense. With a clear tilt towards crediting Muslims for qualities which exist within football, in my interpretation.

This may not be a major issue, but it is noteworthy to some extent and as others have said, topical.

I don't think this is all that different of a topic than changes in players' diets and training that were notably imported to England by continental Europeans (e.g. Wenger), how English teams adjusted to African players leaving every other January for the Cup of Nations, how a recent influx of Spanish players (among others) have led to English clubs playing a more technical game, the effects of Asian ownership on English clubs, etc. But I think you'll find that there has been substantial press about each of those issues, too, even if it hasn't been covered the same was as this matter.