I just don't get all this Nazi salute shite from some Leeds fans. If you're
Leeds then you know what the salute is all about and know what it means.
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> On 24 Jan 2018, at 23:04, {broken-address}
> <bruvvalee...@yahoo.co.uk.is-broken.gn.apc.org> wrote:
>
> John Barber - I’ve been trying to remember when this first came in -
> certainly in the 70s there were plenty of knuckle-draggers sieg-heiling along
> with those doing the Leeds Leeds Leeds thing. Whilst I think the action has
> now been ‘reclaimed’, mainly because many of the old die-hards have moved in,
> I’ve seen some right-wing Italian groups do a similar salute. It’s one thing
> having an on the day rabble rousing fist pump at corners, quite another
> having a badge which looks like some pumped up 1930 Ruskie steel worker.
>
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>> On 24 Jan 2018, at 19:51, Matt Anderson <m...@leeds-united.net> wrote:
>>
>> Looks like the sort of thing I might have bought on a t shirt outside the
>> ground when I was 19 but the badge should have a bit more class like the
>> 1992 championship winning one
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 24 Jan 2018, at 18:18, Jim Moran <j...@jimmoran.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> The bloke's explaining it away on Radio Leeds now. He's talking bollocks.
>>> "The salue is something the fans said Leeds United owned". WRONG. The fans
>>> own the salute, they're saluting the badge. How can the badge be a fan
>>> saluting the badge?? Makes no sense.
>>>
>>> It'll never see the light of day.
>>>
>>> And it's killed off the salute for many fans too.
>>>
>>> No-one does a farce quite like Leeds United
>>>
>>>> On 24 January 2018 at 17:15, <johnbar...@ivycottage.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Lurkdom mode - OFF.
>>>>
>>>> Once we abandoned the City of Leeds badge, sometime in the 1960's I think,
>>>> we then seemed to change our badge every other year.
>>>> It wasn't until the "rose and ball" one - the one we won the 1992
>>>> Championship with - that we settled down to some season after season
>>>> continuity.
>>>> It lasted a good few seasons, long enough, I thought, to establish itself
>>>> as our "new" traditional badge. I'd love for that one to return.
>>>> I never took to Ridsdale's living the (European) dream replacement.
>>>>
>>>> The current proposal? Supposedly it's for our 100th anniversary.
>>>> I could buy into it, if it was only for the one season, and perhaps if the
>>>> hand on the chest was a hand over our traditional badge... whatever that
>>>> is.
>>>> If it mobilises support and enthusiasm and helps us get back to the top
>>>> level in time for our 100th year, then maybe we should endorse it. Doesn't
>>>> sound as if it will though.
>>>> Celebrating the Leeds salute? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the
>>>> uncomfortable feeling that it started appearing when the NF were trying to
>>>> take over our terraces at the end of the 1970s
>>>> So for me it's bit too close to a Nazi salute to be totally at ease with
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, a question on the 100th anniversary that I've been meaning to ask.
>>>> Didn't Ken Bates' shenanigans kill off the 1919 club?
>>>> Isn't the club we're supporting now some new creation of his, barely 10
>>>> years old?
>>>>
>>>> Regards everyone
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Richard Walker [mailto:richleed...@yahoo.co.uk]
>>>> Sent: 24 January 2018 15:59
>>>> To: Richard Naef <rich...@triumph-computers.co.uk>; errand. fivefold <
>>>> errand.fivef...@talk21.com>; Ted <tedhea...@gmail.com>; Graham Farr <
>>>> graham.f...@yara.com>
>>>> Cc: Leeds List (leedslist@gn.apc.org) <leedslist@gn.apc.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [LU] another new crest / badge
>>>>
>>>> Quite like it mysen. Leeds salute is part of our history. I remember being
>>>> in many away end when someone spots someone in the home end doing a secret
>>>> Leeds salute. Minute later it kicks off.
>>>> Huddersfield was the classic. Their whole stand emptied.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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