FOOTBALL HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT PUSHING DOWN THE WHITE WORKING CLASS

They stoop to conquer 

by Colin Liddell

I was once a football fan, but, being Scottish, I had certain advantages in giving it up. 

My team was Glasgow Celtic, believe it or not, even though there is no Irish or Catholicism in my observable bloodline. I am an almost pure Scottish Protestant by descent, although now a pagan-friendly atheist, more or less. 

So, why did I support Glasgow Celtic—at least during the 1980s? Simple: sibling rivalry!

An older brother supported Glasgow Rangers, so supporting Celtic was a good way to wind him up, although I have to say I was totally sincere in my devotion to the team. Ironically, that older brother now supports Celtic, as it plays better with his trans-European social set, especially his Greek Panathinaikos-supporting friends, while I support no team. In fact I hate and despise football, although it occasionally tugs at me.

The reason I hate it is a rather cold and cerebral one, namely I have judged and analysed it, and through a process of relentless logic concluded that it is an enemy of the people, my people working-class British people. 

This is pretty obvious today with the blatant BLM signalling that football fans are being subjected to—and are rebelling against, as they did at recent Millwall game, where they booed the ritual of kneeling for BLM. It is also pretty obvious in the hysterical overreaction to a Romanian official identifying a player as "the Black one" at the recent Champions League match between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir which led to the players walking off. 

Millwall fans believe their long history of cucking 

entitles them to a little bit of uncucking.

But, of course, football has always been the enemy of the working class, first of all providing pointless distraction and substitute tribalism that has divided and weakened them, making them easier to handle by the ruling elites. 

In the case of Scotland this has always been more obvious, as the country's working class has been split right down the middle by football-fueled sectarianism, with Glasgow Rangers and Hearts being the standard bearers for the "Protestant" working class and Glasgow Celtic and Hibernian providing the same role for Scotland's still unassimilated multi-generational Irish "Catholic" immigrant population. Indeed, this was one of the reasons why it was relatively easy for Conservative governments to de-industrialise and de-unionise the country in the 1980s and 1990s.

But football has also played a role in introducing, promoting, normalising, and then weaponising two other trends that directly cut into the roots of working class strength and power—namely political correctness and mass immigration/ race replacement.

Back in 2012, I wrote an article called "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AS A WEAPON OF CLASS WAR" in the wake of an incident in which the Chelsea player John Terry supposedly called a mixed race player a "fuckin' B**** cunt." I highlighted how PC and notions of weaponised racism were, effectively a means of pushing down the working class:

The politically correct idea of racism as it is applied in modern UK society is one that clearly disadvantages the working class and benefits the middle and upper classes. In short, it is a continuation of the class war that has been evident in British society throughout most of the 20th century. This is a class war that the working class has clearly been losing, not only economically and politically, as demonstrated by the destruction of their industries and the middle class takeover of the party created to defend their interests, but also culturally – and on a massive scale.

Working class people have traditionally earned their living by the sweat of their brows, not by the prettiness of their words. More recently, in these welfare-tinged days, a growing proportion of this class survives by appearing as dysfunctional as possible. Life for the working classes has always been rough and uncouth, and this is something that has left its imprint on their speech, culture, and communication patterns.

In the same way that the Chinese always seem to be shouting and berating each other when they have a polite conversation, or the French rely heavily on their nasal passages to express what’s on their mind, so with the British working-class there is a lot of "effing and blinding" when they talk, even at the best of times. This is even truer of the working class male who demonstrates his intellectual vigour and wins respect from his peers through his ability to comfortably swear. In an antagonistic situation, someone’s most obvious visual feature is often combined with a sexually derived expletive to describe them. This is the typical, abrasive and unguarded way of speaking common to the working class – "ya fat c*nt," "ya specky git," "ya big p**f" – and it is also the linguistic algorithm that produced Terry’s remark to Ferdinand.

Incidents like this—Terry was, I believe, fined and suspended—and the more recent one where Millwall fans booed players taking the BLM knee, leading to a national outpouring of hatred against them, are the "Morality Plays" of the modern age.

The wail of the cuckold: "Replace me but not too soon!"

The tone set by the UK's football leaguew, where a dwindling number of native British players are made to stand in solidarity behind anti-racism banners with the foreign imports who are replacing them (this time cheered by Millwall fans, FFS), is then pumped, through Sky TV, BBC's Match of the Day, and millions of conversations in workplaces and pubs (Covid permitting), into the general society. 

Political correctness is thus enforced and with it the morality of accepting and the immorality of resisting mass immigration, which, as we see in the case of Scotland, which experience mass Irish immigration in the 18th and 19th centuries, creates long-running social divisions—even between two peoples of the same colour, who speak the same language and worship (or ignore) the same God.

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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here.