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Dick Campbell’s Japanese Slur And The Media’s Reaction To It Sums Up Scottish Football.

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Dick Campbell was being interviewed on Radio Scotland tonight and he said that he has the kind of players he would want “in the trenches fighting the Japanese.”

Yeah, he actually did that.

In the week when this country, this city, this football club welcomes three players from that country to join the one we already have here.

The presenters laughed. Nervously. But they laughed. The showrunner apologised.

He said that Campbell is from a “different era.”

As a friend of mine said, “Yeah, 1690.”

There will be no media firestorm. There will no controversy.

Casual racism and bigotry is still a joke in this country. Too few people really give a damn.

Scottish football tolerates too much of this stuff.

It’s why Malky Mackay was forgiven and handed a job at the SFA and now runs a club.

It’s why extremists proliferate at clubs as the media makes a joke out of their naked bigotry. Some of our more ancient hacks have been sniggering along at their “off-colour” humour and ignorant remarks for years.

BBC Radio Scotland was never part of the solution.

They have, for years, been part of the problem. They legitimise halfwits.

If anyone pushed this, you watch how they and others in the game would rally round; “Oh Dick doesn’t have a bigoted bone in his body” would be the cry. Oh except for getting caught with the Rangers fans in 2009 belting out their anthems?

He was defended over that with the same argument.

In much the same way as the media and the governing bodies rallied round the flag when Craig Brown was recorded singing his anti-Irish, anti-Catholic dirge down the phone to his girlfriend whilst national coach … and kept his job.

You wonder how much has really changed.

Not that much.

Because this game is still too full of people like Campbell who think it’s a joke and a jolly to wallow in dinosaur attitudes and hold repellent views. This is the norm.

Here they don’t get sine die. They get radio interviews and manager of the year citations.

They get gigs at the SFA.

Because of how many mates they have. Because their pals are everywhere.

And what a cesspit we’ve ended up with.

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  • Frankie pearson says:

    With these players coming over here could be good for our game, but as long as we have these type of people whether it is so called football men, tv, or radio we will never progress.

  • Chris McDougall says:

    Hadn’t heard that though he certainly has previous to which you allude. He’s a bigoted bastard. Fuck him and fuck Arbroath too.

  • Johnny mcglinchey says:

    Just another pig ignorant fuckin retarded hun who hasn’t a fuckin clue about anything other than that diseased mob. HH

    • Jimmy says:

      Pig ignorant is using the word retarded. Maybe you should go over to the Disabled section at a game and educate yourself. Disgusting you allow this James Forrest.

  • Michael McCartney says:

    Switched on Radio Scotland just before he came away with that one. The stupidity and racism of this guy is depressing but I would bet he would say it was humour, that is always the defence put forward by racists and bigots when there intolerance is pointed out. Where is the SFA and the show racism the red card campaign when the manager of a member club comes away with this rubbish.
    Maybe it shows how worried of the players from the J League they really are.

  • Brian says:

    Our club and former CEO had a huge chance to bury this bigotry and we gave them a huge helping hand out the quick sand, this is their legacy all for the blue pound, shameful.

  • scouse bhoy says:

    ln other news which i just happened to see in the newspaper rack at the shops albertz joins the sunay mail, more roses for the garden i would think. scotlands shame.

    • Joemartin says:

      Scotlands shame again , nothing will be done or said about the bigots and racist scum of this fuckin racist rathole .

  • scouse bhoy says:

    sunday mail

  • Peter Cassidy says:

    Bigot and racist why are these people such @rseholes but then again Scotland full of them .

  • Stephen McAdam says:

    Campbell represents ” brigadoon” perfectly! 99percent of the self proclaimed ” diddy teams” are huns!! Tho he is a fully fledged one that’s for and thank God as he acts and looks like one! ” Anybody but Celtic”! Such a true saying I lived and grew up in Motherwell area and the joke was ” cant afford the bus fair to ibrox or the ” reversible scarf mob”! So so true and they casually shrug the shoulders at the claim in 1991 plenty of the huns were at hampden from said area supporting Motherwell! It’s a sickness these people have destroyed many in debate but they love to hate it’s how they are brought up! They are angry bigoted people so dont give us the rhetoric ” what about them” that’s their retort! They are a cancer that’s why the hellhole in govan should been bulldozed as without their ” big team” the bigots would be finished! What a place!! And in this places lives a Gigantic Club a true World loved Global one borne out of Love, community, unity and Charity! Buy hey let’s no talk about them unless we mention our hate! That’s them right there and they are enabled by plenty in positions of influence! Why? Cause they have same disgusting upbringing and mindset! Only in ” brigadoon”! As I call the place ! A disgrace hopefully some day soon we can get out that set up! A dream my father and then me also like many always had.As who wants to be part of a country and set up that openly allowed a club to operate a ” apartheid ” signing policy with knownex players and managers revelling in it on tv documentaries also! This is all on record! Disgusting!

    • Fred howden says:

      I remember Sir Alex and Jim McLean refusing Ibrox job because they refused them the right to sign who the wanted regardless of religion !

      • Big john says:

        Another ballot from the hun side of the wall .to many nutcases running around flexing their
        Face muscles to make themself bigger than they are new name for him

        Dick campbell arsehole

  • Caroline D’Arcy says:

    This is the kind of ignorant, bigoted society we live in here in Scotland.
    The corruption, the racism, then the excuses that come out after it has crossed their disgusting and bile lips they think it’s normal to say, ‘’Awe Dick Campbell isn’t like that’’
    Are you actually serious… the reptile has been caught on so many occasions pushing his vile chants but yet the Scottish media have always came to his defence.
    I for one am absolutely disgusted with BBC Scotland, who I may add the person who actually chairs the show and actually laughs at the racists comments (Kenny Macintyre) is still in a job.
    Shame on you BBC Scotland.
    I am actually ashamed to be Scottish and the powers that be still continue to allow this kind of bigotry and give these vile individuals the platform to continue with their deprecating comments.
    Beyond belief is an understatement.

  • Peterbrady says:

    I am calling out big rab d you better do that auld bigot scum if you do not I will be paying a visit for some smokies i will clip him

  • John Thomson says:

    It will never go away doesn’t mean we have to except it

  • Francesco says:

    We need influential figures, writers, folk in high places within our ranks to call this shit out. Got to do it vociferously NOW.

  • Saulgoodman says:

    Yeah dick ok – you enjoy your night

  • Tony B says:

    Sorry mate; he didn’t say Japanese, he said “Japs”,

    I think the phrase he used was “fighting Japs in the trenches”.

    Points to note about this:

    None of the BBC employees called this out, it was in fact Willie Miller who did so.

    Both Tom English and the presenter said nothing about it until Miller mentioned it.

    They then both proceeded to make excuses for Campbell along the lines of he comes from a different era and that he is really a good guy.

    It cannot be a coincidence that within days of Celtic signing 3 Japanese players we have someone involved in Scottish football at a high level talking about fighting Japs.

    This is blatant racism excused by the national broadcaster and must be called out by the Celtic board.

    Malky Mackay was suspended for referring to Chinese people as Chinkys, so what is different from the moron that is Dick Campbell talking about Japs?

    It is racism pure and simple and the BBC has condoned it.

  • Josh Mulraney says:

    Crass comment from Dick Campbell, as we have seen over the years casual racism and sectarianism are rife in Scottish football. It’s said in a jocular fashion as if that makes it ok… it doesn’t.

    Politics, sectarianism, and racism have no place in football. Every club should be held accountable for the behaviour of their own fans, if we call it out it can get better. But let’s not kid ourselves that one version of bile is acceptable to the other… it’s all bile and it ALL needs to stop.

    • Tony B says:

      A RACIST comment from Campbell, and no amount of false equivalency about sectarianism or whataboutery alters that fact.

      It should be called out for what it is every time it happens.

  • Steve cooper hinds says:

    Dick Campbell is nothing but an illiterate gutless Hun who would never be anywhere near the trenches he is a born coward to hide behind the rest of the BBC Hun pundits to spout his rascist Hun bile,the SFA should ban this clown but they are of the same mindset anti Celtic so they will turn a blind eye.

  • JimBhoy says:

    Is Campbell still in football?? Surely there must be some bright you coaching talent who can offer more than this relic.

    Dick by name……… !

  • Roonsa says:

    Not so long ago, this sort of “cheeky” comment would have been used by managers of higher profile teams and lauded by the MSM. It’s in their psyche to use these tactics to ostracise those who are “different” to them. I would be amazed if any of our Japanese contingent get to hear about this, even in passing. I didn’t hear the comment and am, therefore, unsure as to why he would be given the opportunity to make them. Sounds like a stitch up to me.

    Do everyone a favour, Dick. Next time you are about to cross a busy road. Close your eyes.

  • Mark B says:

    There is no place for any kind of racism sectarianism or whatever we want to call it. Anywhere. Football is not immune and we must chase it out. Celtic Park is not immune either and we must root it out in our own support.

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