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South African football chiefs have hit back at Uefa’s vuvuzela ban by barring the traditional loudmouth racist bigot who sits within earshot of all UK football fans.
The tit-for-tat move has sparked fury among supporters groups who see it as an attack on the culture and tradition of the English game.
“The inherently racist gobshite screaming inane abuse and proffering abuse-laden advice at 30 decibels within four seats of any fan is as much a part of British football culture as match day pies,” said Liverpool fan and supporter spokesman Craig Cutler, 27.
“Ill-educated bigots have been the cacophonic signature of the English game since the late Seventies and can be found within three or four rows of every fan in the Premiership.
“To ban them from the game is an attack on our football heritage.”
South African football chiefs, however, were unrepentant last night.
Obi Gyan, chairman of the South African Football Association, said: “If Uefa is going to ban the vuvuzela in Europe then we are going to ban the slavering English loon barking profanities in the direction of even the most gifted of footballers from the stands in South Africa.
“Rather than banning the vuvuzela in Premiership grounds, you’d have thought the FA would want to dish them out, if only to drown out the homophobic rants of the brainless football fan that is strategically placed about four rows back and three seats along from every football fan in Great Britain stadiums on match day.”
Football fans up and down the country are aghast at the proposal, fearing the South African ban could be introduced in the Premier League.
Manchester United fan Trevor Boothe said: “Even at Old Trafford it just wouldn’t be the same without the tattooed fat bloke a few rows behind me expressing at the top of his voice every five minutes his clearly insane opinion that Wayne Rooney is not only a lazy tosser, but that he – an asthmatic – could do better with his eyes shut.
“Don’t they understand, mental cases like him are the heart and soul of our game.”
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