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DP’s new football flag has given me the ick!

266 replies

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 12:55

DP is a big football fan and they have been promoted so he is excited for the new season to start. He goes with a group of 5/6 mates and they always have a flag to take to away matches. To mark their promotion, they’ve ordered a new one.

DP took delivery of it yesterday. It is an England flag with the club badge on it. They have added the text ‘On the charge with Farage’ 😩

Instant ick…am I overreacting!?

OP posts:
ExercicenformedeZ · 25/07/2025 16:21

amylou8 · 25/07/2025 13:57

Well he's going to be our next PM so you might as well get used to it now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

OMG you're funny.

Livpool · 25/07/2025 16:25

cardibach · 25/07/2025 15:46

That may or may not be true.
Doesn’t alter the fact that Farage and his gang are racist and anyone supporting them therefore is also or is happy to support racism. Nothing to do with opposing political views or the effectiveness or otherwise of other parties.

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

freddy05 · 25/07/2025 16:26

How you can be a racist and claim to be a Burnley fan I do not know.

CoughCoughLaugh · 25/07/2025 16:31

That would give me the ick too @HollyUpNorth. And if I saw him and his friends at a match, rightly or wrongly, I'd assume they were knuckle dragging rent-a-lout football hooligans looking for a fight and not real supporters, there to enjoy the game.

JustSawJohnny · 25/07/2025 16:34

Eeeeeewwwwww!!!!

I'd be packing his bags for him.

I joke. But not really.

JustSawJohnny · 25/07/2025 16:38

CarlaLemarchant · 25/07/2025 14:21

I’m a football fan and this is not football culture, it’s racists culture.
I’ll think of you OP if I see that flag in the crowd on Match of the Day.

Me too, and hard agree.

All he'll be doing is outing himself as a twunt.

Clubs like mine, who have had a lot of crap over the years for having black players, would have them removed.

PandoraSocks · 25/07/2025 16:49

@anytipswelcome to add to your list Farage has just this week welcomed a Welsh Tory who has defected to Reform. Laura Ann Jones used the racist slur you mention in a chat with her assistant. She also posted stuff about shooting chavs and Ed Milliband.

Lovely people.

MumWifeOther · 25/07/2025 16:53

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 12:55

DP is a big football fan and they have been promoted so he is excited for the new season to start. He goes with a group of 5/6 mates and they always have a flag to take to away matches. To mark their promotion, they’ve ordered a new one.

DP took delivery of it yesterday. It is an England flag with the club badge on it. They have added the text ‘On the charge with Farage’ 😩

Instant ick…am I overreacting!?

Yeah sorry, it’s a no for me.

PandoraSocks · 25/07/2025 16:59

Rosscameasdoody · 25/07/2025 15:49

Nope. But it’s everything to do with that disillusionment giving Farage an in he wouldn’t otherwise have had.

I am pretty disillusioned with politics. I am not turning to Reform because I don't support racism.

PandoraSocks · 25/07/2025 17:00

I am not sure this flag exists. Come on @HollyUpNorth let's have a photo please.

Merryoldgoat · 25/07/2025 17:01

This would genuinely be enough to make me reconsider the relationship.

2dogsandabudgie · 25/07/2025 18:47

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 25/07/2025 15:19

Nah not buying that, the guy is a total wanker and Faridge is what he's getting from me

I would pronounce garage to rhyme with Farage not garidge to rhyme with Faridge but I suppose it depends where you're from.

Agree that he's a wanker though!

LlynTegid · 25/07/2025 18:53

Nigel Farage is allegedly a Crystal Palace supporter (well he did go to school in Dulwich) though keener on cricket.

Anyway, the banner should make you reconsider the relationship.

CurlewKate · 25/07/2025 18:54

2dogsandabudgie · 25/07/2025 18:47

I would pronounce garage to rhyme with Farage not garidge to rhyme with Faridge but I suppose it depends where you're from.

Agree that he's a wanker though!

Posh snobs like me think it’s funny to say Farridge🤣

StandFirm · 25/07/2025 18:56

amylou8 · 25/07/2025 13:57

Well he's going to be our next PM so you might as well get used to it now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Nope.
No to both: Not going to be our next PM (certainly hope not). Not getting used to it. Ever.

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:05

Right going down the rabbit hole, Farage aside, I can see why people have become disenfranchised with the current political elite.

It is not racist to say there is an issue with crime, uncontrolled illegal immigration and the erosion of civil liberties.

When the histrionics have subsided and you look at the cold hard facts, I can see why a party that has Habib, Zia, Nigel etc is attracting support not just from ‘far right’ people but ordinary British people. For example, Zia doesn’t exactly fit the bill for a far right thug.

When none of the political elite have the guts to address the elephant in the room, I’m not surprised fringe groups are gaining popularity.

instead of blindly labelling everyone as racist, the facts at hand should be discussed.

I find it’s people like me that are more willing to touch these controversial topics because we are not white.

sad day when someone has to bite their tongue in fear of being labelled racist.

When that little depraved monster, Axel killed little girls at a dance club, the PM spoke on Islamophobia and protecting mosques whilst people like Lucy Connolly faced greater sentences for clumsy reactive tweets than paedophiles raping underaged girls up north.

ill now depart because there’s a certain faction on this thread exhibiting the same sneering elitist attitudes that the political elite have for the average person.

allyjay · 25/07/2025 19:09

skippy67 · 25/07/2025 13:02

Nigel is very in at the mo. Your DP and his gang will be the envy of many with their tribute flag.

Edited

Er no racism and bigotry will NEVER be'in'

grumpygrape · 25/07/2025 19:38

I know I’m a ‘sad’ old woman but whatever happened to going to a sporting event, cheering your team on and politely clapping when the ‘other side’ scored?
What the heck has politics got to do with supporting a football team?
I’ve seen too much of the bad side of football to have any respect for a lot of the ‘fans’ and some of the players.

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:40

grumpygrape · 25/07/2025 19:38

I know I’m a ‘sad’ old woman but whatever happened to going to a sporting event, cheering your team on and politely clapping when the ‘other side’ scored?
What the heck has politics got to do with supporting a football team?
I’ve seen too much of the bad side of football to have any respect for a lot of the ‘fans’ and some of the players.

they’ve made everything political.

the school system, medical system, football, sports in general.

They demonise people for refusing to pander to certain identity politics and when you take a stand for biological women, you’re treated appallingly.

Im very careful of the types of people that parrot things that are taken out of context and twisted to fit a narrative.

If we went back to good old fashioned common sense and fairness, these corrupt be kind mobs wouldn’t be brainwashing people into believing in things that are ultimately detrimental to society at large.

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:40

they’ve made everything political.

the school system, medical system, football, sports in general.

They demonise people for refusing to pander to certain identity politics and when you take a stand for biological women, you’re treated appallingly.

Im very careful of the types of people that parrot things that are taken out of context and twisted to fit a narrative.

If we went back to good old fashioned common sense and fairness, these corrupt be kind mobs wouldn’t be brainwashing people into believing in things that are ultimately detrimental to society at large.

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:44

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

if you can’t deduce from MY post the point I was making, then seriously, jog on.

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:45

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:44

if you can’t deduce from MY post the point I was making, then seriously, jog on.

I thought after your first bit of whataboutery you said you were going.

DuncinToffee · 25/07/2025 19:46

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

The are receiving racial abuse when playing for England?

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:47

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:45

I thought after your first bit of whataboutery you said you were going.

Well, after you reared your ignorant head, I’ve decided to stay, Sooty.

now take your dusty self elsewhere if you want.

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:47

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:05

Right going down the rabbit hole, Farage aside, I can see why people have become disenfranchised with the current political elite.

It is not racist to say there is an issue with crime, uncontrolled illegal immigration and the erosion of civil liberties.

When the histrionics have subsided and you look at the cold hard facts, I can see why a party that has Habib, Zia, Nigel etc is attracting support not just from ‘far right’ people but ordinary British people. For example, Zia doesn’t exactly fit the bill for a far right thug.

When none of the political elite have the guts to address the elephant in the room, I’m not surprised fringe groups are gaining popularity.

instead of blindly labelling everyone as racist, the facts at hand should be discussed.

I find it’s people like me that are more willing to touch these controversial topics because we are not white.

sad day when someone has to bite their tongue in fear of being labelled racist.

When that little depraved monster, Axel killed little girls at a dance club, the PM spoke on Islamophobia and protecting mosques whilst people like Lucy Connolly faced greater sentences for clumsy reactive tweets than paedophiles raping underaged girls up north.

ill now depart because there’s a certain faction on this thread exhibiting the same sneering elitist attitudes that the political elite have for the average person.

We don’t have uncontrolled illegal immigration, so the rest is a bit moot.
If you mean t(we’re are more asylum seekers than you would like, say so, but it’s a pretty callous and racist thing to say. Plus we take fewer per capita than, for eg, France.
Edit: political elites? Are you including for eg Rayner and Streeting? You may want to look at their backgrounds if so.

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