Retard United Fans Disgusting Hillsborough Shirt
I realise this has nothing to do with us as Arsenal fans, but I was so stunned once I saw it that I had write about it.
A Manchester United fan (by the name of Colm Jackson) has taken it upon himself to get a shirt printed, with a message on the back which says:
YSB
96
Not Enough
The link to the actual photograph is here (it’s on his Facebook profile).
No doubt that the picture will probably be deleted soon, as I’m sure a lot of people will be reporting it.
Don’t get me wrong, hatred for other teams is okay but this is well over the line. To have a shirt like that is shocking, and I’ve supported Arsenal for almost 20 years and never (and I mean never) come across something as distasteful as that from an Arsenal fan. To make fun at a terrible disaster like that really does beggars belief.
From the comments on the picture, it’s clear that it was actually printed at a Sports Direct store in the Arndale Centre, Manchester.
I can’t believe a Sports store would even allow something like that to be printed. Surely they would be liable for printing this filth.
Maybe I shouldn’t be shocked and maybe this kind of thing is rife among football supporters.
But I’ve never come across it with Arsenal fans.
Source: Empire of the Kop
August 18th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Can I say a massive well done in drawing attention and advertising something so utterly repulsive so that the guy can get loads of attention over it now rather than not making a big song and dance and meaning that his (obviously) attention seeking ploy failed miserably.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Mate, fairplay in raising this but you forget about the amount of anti-semetic songs sung, and the fake gas sounds that have leaked out of our end at shite hart lane on many an occasion. Same thing
August 18th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
i hope Colm Jackson gets raped by 7 black men in a pub toilet
its like the stinking gupta’s that put bin laden on their back C.U.N.T.S
August 18th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
What a fucktard.
Boy is he in for a few leatherings. Well done for pointing this out!
August 18th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
To the author of this article……. ‘ Get off your high horse ‘ ! If it makes you feel good then YES YES you are a wonderful citizen of high morals…. well done !
Yes the shirt is disgusting but it’s one sicko not worth mentioning. Its also sick the thousands & thousands of Liverpool fans who for years & years well before Hillsborough have sung ‘ Whose that dying on the runway, whose that dying in the snow ……. ‘
August 18th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
It’s good that you raise the issue. I remember the Munich 58 T’shirts for sale at Elland Road in the seventies and eighties.
But SLICE is right as re: the hypocrasy.
I see Arsenal fans on blogs calling Spurs fans Yids etc., all the time..
August 18th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
What does YSB stand for?
August 18th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Is it You Scouse Bastards?
August 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
The geezer looks a cunt. I’d love him to wear that outside anfield the little rent boy lookalike prick!
August 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
reported his photo, hope it gets removed
August 18th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Arsenal fan - you’re as bad as Mr. Jackson you racist little fuck.
Slice / Kipmonster don’t talk rubbish, it’s got nothing to do with what any group of fans sing. That’s a completely different discussion - a valid one nonetheless.
This is about the shirt and the shirt alone and it DOES deserve mentioning. I don’t think anyone who sees that cannot be disgusted by it.
It offends every bit of taste (it’s a ManUtd shirt) and decency (Hillsborough) in me.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Just appalling. We shall never forget April 15th 1989. I remember the Tottenham fans giving the utmost respect to our minutes silence for Rocky, that’s how it must ALWAYS be, yes hate the enemy, non one hates Tottenham more than me, but there is a line to be drawn, and this c*nt has crossed it in the most dreadful fashion.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
It’s only hypocrisy if you call ‘em Yids yourself. No one is accountable for the behaviour of all fans of a team, just as no one is having a pop at all Man Utd fans here because of this.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Absolutley sick. Also very hypocrytical of an Arsenal blog to get on its moral high horse when itys own house is often our of order. As a Jewish Gooner who has had the mis fortune of hearing fellow fans sing songs about the gas chambers and Aushwitz, I find it hard to understand why we are getting involved with this when there are “retards” in our camp who are equally as bad if not worse. Wheres your blog condeming them?
August 18th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
So it’s ok for Muslims to slag the very country they are living in is it? Like fuck it is. He ain’t racist he’s stating a fact! Not that it’s got fuck all to do with the subject.don’t start preaching racism on ere
August 18th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Gooner - No I agree that Muslims shouldn’t put bin Laden on their back.
Calling them GUPTA’s is fucking racist though.
Take a deep breath and use a bit of common sense you moron.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Silly little cunt…
To be honest, not quite sure he deserves this kind of attention though (Surely this is exactly what he wanted! As many people offened as possible)…
But I only have 1 thing to say to you Colm, why don’t you try wearing that shirt round Liverpool son and see how far you get?
Surely the jokes on you because you’ve gone n’ shed out 50 odd quid on a shirt you probably can’t wear much!
Fucking child!
August 18th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
I’d love you to say that face to face don’t give it the biggun with name calling I’m stating a fact! Muslims are as racist as anybody if not more. We don’t fucking blow innocent people up on tube trains matey
August 18th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Sheffield Wednesday fan here - that is an absolute disgrace. I hope someone sues the a$$ off the sports store concerned and as for the low-life who have bought it and think it’s funny, you’re inhuman. Imagine if this happened to your loved ones at your own ground, would that be just as funny. Get some perspective - football will only ever be a game.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Gooner - think you’ll find is a tiny amount of Muslims who actually go around blowing up innocents on the tube ( 3 or 5, I can’t remember which ). Now…treating a whole race the same as a tiny minority? THAT’S racism you fucking halfwit.
You’re a typical internet hard man - hide behind a fake name spouting vile shit through the anonymity it offers you. Bet you’re a pencil necked, spotty, retarded little prick in real life….
August 18th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
You’d hope I was cuntey but you’d ne so wrong you leftie prick
August 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Yeah…here’s a quid Gooner…go and buy yourself a clue…
I’ve got you down as between 5′4 and 5′7, squat with a really slopy forehead (like a caveman), a wife who’s actually sleeping with your best mate and kids who steal from you.
A real credit.
By the way clever bollocks…it’s spelt ‘lefty’.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Oh…and I love the fact that I’m not racist that makes a ‘lefty’. Here’s another quid…
See you’ve also given up trying to prove you’re not racist by spouting racist bollocks. You’ve grown since I’ve known you.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
this is absolutely disgusting
August 18th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Well said Rhyle
August 18th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
How ironic that a topic such as this has bred so many insensitive individuals into the thread. ’stating a fact’ - what? ‘one too many’. What’s factual about that?
August 18th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Gupta’s are indian and hindu not moslem
Moslem’s are not bombers, idiots are bombers who us religion to spout hate
Well said Rhyle. I thought we had put the 70’s and 80’s behind us and got into the 21st century but obviously still some cavemen here!
By the way I have Spurs friends who call themnselves Yids and I understood it was short for Yiddish i.e. Jewish. so shouldn;t be bad right?
Gas chambers, Hillsborough t-shirts and crap like that are for morons and we shouldn’t ever resort to rubbish like that
August 18th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Firstly, the shirt is attrocious. Obviously looking for attention and trying to be a bit of a hard man. Hard job when you look a right little tart.
Secondly, I love being a gooner but it’s idiots like you ‘Gooner’ that spoils it for the rest of us. Grow up, grow a brain or go and support spurs. Fortunately, your kind is part of an increasing minortiy at the Emirates.
August 18th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
To be honest I do not know much about Hillsborough and how the T-shirt is referring to it. But thats just my ignorance. Since most people are able to understand it, it must be a crass shirt.
I didn’t understand what the whole thing was about “gupta’s” … well, my last name is gupta and I am a Hindu. As far as I know all Gupta’s are Hindus. I am not sure if anyone would have any connection with bin laden.
Sadly, hate is prevalent across the section of fans and across various communities.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hate and racism stems from ignornace and low self confidence. IQ and racism are inversely proportional. I was born in South Africa so have an unbelievable amount of first hand experience. Have met thousands of racists, yet to meet an intelligent one.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Well when it come’s to racism, every club has them, as sad it is to hear when it spurts out of the rear end of those cunts. But those who hear it, need to put the ignorant cunts straight, and any gip back should be met with stiff upper cut. Let’s remember where Arsenal is, probably not just London’s but the UK’s most ethnically diverse area.
So if your anti-jewish, anti-muslim, anti-UK that means you are anti-arsenal, so you can go fuck yourselves and support another team.
Rhyle _ your top dollar
Gooner_ you’re a gooner my left testicle
dave_ never heard the gas chamber song, doesn’t mean it wasn’t sung and any cunts that sing it, deserve to be slung in one.
don’t blame the shop that printed it, because i didn’t get it, until someone pointed out the YSB bit until somene pointed it out. Chances are the shop attendant might not have.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
What a load of boring bullshit……Im not racist, i hate Guptas, Rag heads and Yids all exactly the same amount……..hahahaha. BOLLOCKS
August 18th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Presently talking to Sportsdirect’s head office about the fact this was made up in one of their shops after emailing them a pdf of the page.
And I fucking HATE the anti-jewish songs that SOME gooners sing.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Disgusting.
In my experience the most bitter and horrible fans in the Premier League are Everton, United and West Ham supporters. I’ve been to a lot of home and away games with Arsenal and (I’m not just saything this) they’ve never been anywhere near as aggressive as the above mentioned ‘fans’.
The worst I’ve heard is the slagging off of our own players!
August 18th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Do tottenham call themselfs yids???
I have a Arsenal mate who’s jewish and he calls them yids.
I will always refere to them as yids.
and that aint no racist bullshit.
gas chamber songs i have never heard from us??
August 18th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
What the hell does Yid mean?
I’m obviously not the kind of supporter who hangs around the type of people who do all this disgusting stuff at football matches.
A lot of people need to grow up.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
No true muslim would write Bin Laden on their back, marking your body in any way is forbidden in Islam, so whoever is talking about muslims - which is completely off topic here needs to talke it easy, stop being influenced by the zionist media and lay off. This is a disgusting t-shirt which shows this boy has a lack of respect and morals. Some people take football too seriously yes its the best sport ever and its so exciting and arsenal make me go the game every time, but some things are more important
August 18th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Gooner. You are a disgrace for your disgusting comments.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Agreed Ali, Gooner is a disgrace.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Any news on Fabregas’ fitness test?
August 18th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Opposition has natural escalation of response. Eventually, left to our own devices, a section of fans will develop verbal abuse to physical to war unless the more balanced majority treats racists and thugs as outcasts. Racism only for the unintelligent? No just the clever ones keep views to themselves. Left hook to a racist? No as violence shouldn’t be a response to weak provocation. Prosecution for outraging human decency and put on FA prohibited list then he can sit at home and keep his views indoors
August 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Just got this email concerning the shirt:
Thank you for your e-mail concerning the Man Utd. shirt printed at our Manchester Arndale store.
Please find below a statement concerning this.
Sports Direct International plc
Statement re football shirt
Sports Direct has been notified that an extremely offensive and wholly inappropriate football shirt was printed at one of its stores. The store assistant printed this unknowingly and has been deeply shocked upon being notified of the significance of this and the upset caused.
As a result, Sports Direct has taken immediate action and changed the administration policy for printing football shirts across its store network. With immediate effect, it will only allow printing of current football players names and numbers on football shirts.
Sports Direct has contacted Facebook to request the urgent withdrawal of this deeply offensive image from the individual’s Facebook page, and is very apologetic for this spiteful and abusive shirt.
Yours faithfully
Mr K Fitch
Customer Service Manager
August 18th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Well done Timus, good job.
It looks like the picture has now been removed from Facebook. Not surprising really given the response to it.
It’s one thing having the shirt made, but to publish it online is ridiculous.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Glad that the majority on here has responded appropriately.
Some situations transcend the tribalism that I actively enjoy within the relatively safe environment of a football stadium, and appeal to to better parts of what it means to be human. Hillsborough is one example.
The only thing about being a Gooner that’s embarrassing is the anti-Semites that are associated.
Get a life.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Yid refers to Yiddish, a variant of German that Jews that came over from Germanic lands would speak between themselves.
Yiddish words, Chutzpah, Schmuck etc..
We used to refer to Spurs fans as Yids and they then took it as their own much in the same way we took on Gooners.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Why does your title say “United fans”, when it’s only one person? I really don’t think one retard is deserved of such attention, or represents a club or its fans.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:15 am
JGoon
Your description of the origin of the word Yid may be correct but the fact is that it became used as an insult - as in its a negative thing to be Jewish. Much the same as the word P*ki or the word n*gger, (which is still racist when used as a negative description, even if many black choose to call themselves by that term).
To clarify, the use of the word Yid as an insult is racist. If you use the term Yid as an insult you are being racist and are therefore racist. Simple.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:35 am
How about putting pressure on Man U to actually ban this idiot? unfortunately contacting sports direct and facebook isn’t going to do much in the end
disgusting
August 19th, 2009 at 2:05 am
my friend is a spurs fan i call him a yid he calls me a gooner its neverr rasist you need to get a life its only a nickname ffs and tht shirt is discusting and he obv not a true football fan as you cannot take such a footballing tradigy as a joke the sick cunt
August 19th, 2009 at 3:27 am
United fan here, that is just so WRONG!!!! I think anyone who does stuff like that should not call himself a fan. I do not think anyone of us are proud about this!!! The football should be limited to the ground not racist remarks outside of it.
Not that it matters but I should apologise for the behavior, whether I like it or not the Moron is a United fan
August 19th, 2009 at 7:36 am
How many bricks do you think this soft git is going to get through his window for this?
August 19th, 2009 at 8:36 am
Internet drama. lol
August 19th, 2009 at 9:02 am
If this thread debate was about a lone stupid individual fan and how distasteful it is to mock any tragedy, I could totally understand and would be happy to join in on the debate.
Just like any club including yours, there are morons with plenty of room in their heads for a brain cell should one ever decide to grow, but to head a thread on the net like that is just pathetic. The creator of this thread obviously has never watched an Arsenal game, either that or Arsenal fans are saints.
And as for Clock End Gooner, that’s a rich statement from a dickhead like yourself who raved on about how good the Munich disaster made you feel.
You related the idiot Utd fan by any chance?.
August 19th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Why does racism have to be thrown into every argument?
When did ’scouse’ become a race of people?
August 19th, 2009 at 9:50 am
At the end of the day, Spurs fans call themselves “yids”, so of course we refer to them as “yid cunts”, just as we would if they called themselves “Gargozides”… We’d call them “Gargozide cunts”
If you new pathetic pc breed football fans can’t handle hearing the word “yid”, may I suggest you either get in touch with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club and request them to change their supporter’s nickname they’ve had for decades… Or fuck off to a sport where you are dictated to on how to support your team, like Cricket!
It’s mugs like you that are ruining the atmosphere at football with pathetic little PC rants like these!
August 19th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Red devil…
When the fuck did I do that?
August 19th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Rivallry is what makes footy great….you cheer for your boys and you cheer against you rivals…
As a Spurs fan I wish all Arsenal supporters nothing worse than defeat every Saturday (didn’t really enjoy the Everton and Celtic games…lol)…and that’s the way it should be…Well played to all the “Gooners” speaking out against someone who has clearly crossed the line…
And hats off to K Fitch from Sports Direct for his immediate response in dealing with the problem.
Good Health and un-ending defeat to all the Gunners fans,
I hope you wish me the same….
August 19th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Livershit supporters sing songs making fun of Munich disaster when United lost many players. I dont condone both but yes it is rife.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:44 am
Rhyle your a fucking halfwit, I really do hate people like you, so with that i invite you to come down to the tarman in the cally and ask for pav, then we ll see what you think of your so called internet hard men you moral high ground cunt, please come down to the cally so I can rip you to shred’s you fucking gimp, lets see whos the “internet hardman” cunt !
August 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
There is nothing wrong with this.
Whats the difference between one teams fans singing about posh taking it up the arse and another teams fans singing about munich, tevez being ugly etc etc.
Football is all about rivalries and slagging of each others teams.
If you are easily offended then dont read anything on football websites, papers. Dont attend any games or watch the match at your local booozer.
Stay at home and watch match of the day and stop bitching.
This is nothing new to football so dont act all suprised and shocked.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Jules, I think YSB is a strange abbreviation for “Yellow Submarines”, after a famous song from a well known Liverpool band! I’ve checked the link and the guy that put this shirt picture up looks to be about 10 years old so he probably doesn’t understand why it would upset people so much.
I am aware that fans of all teams will make narrow minded and insensitive jokes about other teams. In some ways this can be just part of the banter that makes supporting your team a bit of fun. But going as far as printing shirts or banners celebrating the deaths of other fans is clearly way beyond the line where it can no longer be classed as banter.
August 19th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Rhyle u are one fucking nerd. U fucking foreign loving cunt. I hope your slut of a bird or wife starts sucking a Muslims cock and makes u watch u scrawny little politically correct cunt
August 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
And rhyle prickboy,if cut you to bits wants anyone to help him with your torture. I’m volunteering u jarvis cocker lookalike knobjockey
August 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Seriously, does anybody know definitively what YSB stands for?
August 19th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
wow, some really intelligent comments in this section. keep up the high-brow discussion, you’re doing the (mainly black) Arsenal team proud.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
richmac83 you’re spot on mate. It’s on thing slagging each other (which is usually in the heat of the moment) but it’s completely different story when you actually go out, buy the shirt and plan on getting something disgusting like that published.
Apparently, according to the Facebook group which emerged it’s alleged from United fans that in the 60’s Liverpool fans actually had Munich 58 T Shirts made and were worn by Liverpool fans. I’m not sure how true that is, but it’s interesting if it was true.
We talk about this ‘Yid’ stuff, but I’ve never seen an Arsenal fan wear something racist or horrible when I’ve been to a game. So yes, in that sense Arsenal fans are saints.
And YSB stands for ‘You Scouse B*stards’.
Which is why I’m amazed that this little scrots ‘apology’ has been accepted by everyone. He knew perfectly well what he was doing. It’s amazing that just because he (looks) young then everyone excuses his behaviour.
Ridiculous.
August 19th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Looks like it’s made the news now:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090819/tuk-apology-for-hillsborough-slur-shirt-6323e80.html
August 20th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Hmmm half of these wall posts are offensive as well as the use of the word retard…..good man
August 20th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Actually retarded was the word he used - inoffensive as means ‘delayed developmentally’ rather than the word Retard which is an offensive term use to describe the mentally handicapped.
August 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I’m a racist fuck with nothing else to do than give the hard man big balls to compensate for the lack of control I have over my own life and the fact that my mrs is shagging someone richer, funnier and better looking than me. I mean - the man can actuall spell for fucks sake!
Sorry for what I said the other day - I was out of order. I’m going to go to a counsellor to get help with my anger. I’m a rageaholic. I love rageahol.
In future I promise to count to 10 before posting.
I especially want to say sorry for all that bollocks about cutting people and being hard. I’m 5 foot 6 and built like a small girl, in every department. This has a lot to do with why I get angry.
Please don’t hate me, the internets is the only place I have friends. That and at the bottom of the glass at the Tarman.
I love you all, that’s why I’m tugging my cock.
Gooner / Pav (short for Pavement dweller. It’s the nickname the old bill gave me when I was a homeless rent boy).
August 20th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
If you think that t-shirt was offensive what about all this merchandise by Scott The Red (otherwise known as “therepublikofmancunia”.
He sells badges, t-shirts (and underwear!) celebrating and exploiting the deaths of 39 football fans at Heysel?
http://images.google.co.uk/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=republikofmancunia+without+killing&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=