A Retraction
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On Friday, lifted by emotional scenes at Alan Hudson's funeral I wrote , "This Club Will Never Die."
It seems from the drivel being spouted on one of the longest and most unpleasant threads ever seen on this Forum..it already has. Died, that is.
Quite what all the political ideological and religious claptrap spewing out , page after page in this discourse below has to do with football, I have no idea. As all the usual suspects begin to crawl back out from under their individual stones, the way forward is becoming clear to me.
Yes, football at World and Premier League level has already to some extent been politicised. But at (virtually) grass roots level and this far down the Pyramid, this kind of rabid and toxic hatred, innuendo, rancour, loathing, deception, subterfuge, agitation and warmongering has no place. None at all. Never mind not supporting a club that embraces people with extremist views and which has some followers who are quite clearly deranged, I fear for my own safety (and theirs) if I take the risk of standing next to them next season. At The Oval or anywhere else.
Let It Go? Move on? -as some have advocated? Oh yes. I think it is time to do just that. And more than any points deductions, relegation, mismanagement, incompetence, name changes, or sleight of hand, events over the last few days and the commentary on them has changed my mind in less than a week. I feel I have had a lucky escape.
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