Favourite Everton Picture EVER!!!
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as far as i remember, he went to him as he was a waste of space who didnt seem to give a stuff, and the bloke was saying to give him his shirt as he could do a better job.
i recall a similar incident in the '89 cup final, pretty sure it was pat nevin who got the same treatment........ dont recall anything said about anti-scottishism !! he strolled off and sat back in the stands as well.
to class it as racist is takin' the p1ss tbh b.t. it just happens that he was a black player, we can call a white player lazy and not fit to wear the shirt but not a black one as that is racist ?
i gave shandy my two'penneth in bergen and believe me his origin was brought into it as well, it's what people do they pick a thing thats different about a person, i'm pretty sure that a bloke in the african nations cup from senegal will make remarks about someone from say cameroon, i'll also bet that a lot of black people have names that are used for white people as well......which we aren't aware of.
btw here's the wiki account of the incident.......
Nyarko started his career at Ghana, and then joined his first European team -FC Basel and then Karlsruher SC in Germany. He finally settled in RC Lens, played two seasons, and in 2000 joined Everton FC for £4.5M, signed a contract until June 2005. He is infamous for an incident during the 2000/2001 season where during a game against Arsenal a fan came on the pitch and offered him his black shirt, signalling that Nyarko wasn't good enough to wear the colours of Everton. After the fan was escorted by police, Nyarko requested to be substituted and transferred.
i recall a similar incident in the '89 cup final, pretty sure it was pat nevin who got the same treatment........ dont recall anything said about anti-scottishism !! he strolled off and sat back in the stands as well.
to class it as racist is takin' the p1ss tbh b.t. it just happens that he was a black player, we can call a white player lazy and not fit to wear the shirt but not a black one as that is racist ?
i gave shandy my two'penneth in bergen and believe me his origin was brought into it as well, it's what people do they pick a thing thats different about a person, i'm pretty sure that a bloke in the african nations cup from senegal will make remarks about someone from say cameroon, i'll also bet that a lot of black people have names that are used for white people as well......which we aren't aware of.
btw here's the wiki account of the incident.......
Nyarko started his career at Ghana, and then joined his first European team -FC Basel and then Karlsruher SC in Germany. He finally settled in RC Lens, played two seasons, and in 2000 joined Everton FC for £4.5M, signed a contract until June 2005. He is infamous for an incident during the 2000/2001 season where during a game against Arsenal a fan came on the pitch and offered him his black shirt, signalling that Nyarko wasn't good enough to wear the colours of Everton. After the fan was escorted by police, Nyarko requested to be substituted and transferred.
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Exactly spot on.
Any incident involving a black player is immediately called "An act of racism", and to be honest, they need to get a grip.
i see your point, i really do, but i think that racism in football is bad enough that its okay to err on the side of caution in times like this. then again i didn't see the game, so i don't know if he was actually [Poor language removed] or if he was unfairly targeted. to be fair, stuff like this doesn't happen often, so just about only the worst performance possible would warrant something like this. also its hard to judge peoples motivations, we're not in that fan's head so we don't know if he was racially motivated or not, if BT says that the picture offends him then that's his prerogative
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it was never reported as a racism incident at the time or been caslled one since, the police escorted him away so i'm sure if racism was evident he wouldve been charged accordingly.
oh sorry it was probably looked over as they wouldve been met officers.
oh sorry it was probably looked over as they wouldve been met officers.
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A racist act is them idiots imitating monkeys to Andy Cole was it? Another one is throwing bananas at John Barnes...if Nyarko was white, it would have been surpassed, feck all said about it.
If black people want to be treated equally, yet they think everything is a racist attack on them.
That Anthony Walker lad getting shot, was called a racist shooting. How the hell would they know? Ridiculous, it really is.
If black people want to be treated equally, yet they think everything is a racist attack on them.
That Anthony Walker lad getting shot, was called a racist shooting. How the hell would they know? Ridiculous, it really is.
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | Youth guilty of racist axe murder
The court heard Barton had shouted racist abuse at Anthony as he waited at a bus stop near the Huyton Park pub with his cousin Marcus Binns and girlfriend, Louise Thompson.
Not really mate.
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i just don't see why you let this "ridiculousness" bother you, it doesn't effect you, let BT hold onto his views and you can hold onto yours.
especially in america, people get all up in arms about political correctness, saying that its a waste and complaining about hypersensitivity. my question is why do people care? the incident is said and done and really we're in no position to judge whether or not the man was indeed racist. its possible that he wasn't overtly racist, but subtly more prone to target a black player because of subconscious prejudice, who knows?
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How do you know that it doesn't affect me?
Weather it does or not, it's still in the news, it's in football, and it's on a website that I post on...
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you really are a funny guy 
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As some on here will know , I'm not too , " computered - up " , as it were , so , no posting photies for me , but if you're looking for a defining image , check the one of Bally , on home debut , after some 6 minutes , ( and after netting the winner on actual debut the week before at Fulham ) , scoring against the shabs , and runs away to complete his " avion de triomphe " to the Bullens Road .
Fukn awesome . Check the Flying Pig's kipper . It says it all .
It says , ..
" Fuk , these have just signed their greatest player in modern times . Fuk !! "
The man was an Everton God and loved us just as much as we loved him . And that was a lot .
I know . I was extremely fortunate enough to get on , " sending Xmas cards to each other " , terms with the Great Man just prior to his untimely death . I also went to his funeral .
All because he was never happier than when talking Everton , to Evertonians .
The man won the World Cup , by the way .
So , if you're looking for seminal images , that will do for me .
I thank yo' .
Fukn awesome . Check the Flying Pig's kipper . It says it all .
It says , ..
" Fuk , these have just signed their greatest player in modern times . Fuk !! "
The man was an Everton God and loved us just as much as we loved him . And that was a lot .
I know . I was extremely fortunate enough to get on , " sending Xmas cards to each other " , terms with the Great Man just prior to his untimely death . I also went to his funeral .
All because he was never happier than when talking Everton , to Evertonians .
The man won the World Cup , by the way .
So , if you're looking for seminal images , that will do for me .
I thank yo' .
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