Leicester Player Votes BNP, Causes Ructions, Gets Suspended.

[themn]

Leicester City star Wayne Brown forced into grovelling apology over BNP stance
EXCLUSIVE By NEIL MOXLEY
Last updated at 11:22 PM on 14th May 2010

Apology: Wayne Brown, who helped Hull to promotion, admitted to voting for the BNP

Wayne Brown has been forced into making a grovelling apology to his Leicester City team-mates after admitting that he voted BNP in the general election.

The Foxes defender sparked fury among several of his colleagues last week during a dressing-room debate turned sour and now he has been forced to ask for forgiveness.

A number of his team-mates — principally winger Lloyd Dyer and veteran defender Chris Powell — were particularly upset and rounded upon the former Hull City man.

Reports of a dressing-room punch-up appear wide of the mark but several of the Foxes’ squad were unhappy and told him so.

Matters became so heated that when Brown reported for duty ahead of the weekend’s play-off game against Cardiff City he was told to leave the club, having been suspended for the two fixtures against the Bluebirds.

Brown was told that he needed to apologise on Thursday after Leicester’s season effectively ended following a penalty shoot-out defeat at the City of Cardiff Stadium on Wednesday night.

It is unknown as yet whether he has had the opportunity to do so as the Foxes’ squad were allowed a day off following their heartache in south Wales.

A Leicester source said: ‘There was no punch-up. But Wayne has been asked to apologise to anyone he may have offended.

‘It seems as though there was a discussion and he disclosed how he had voted.’

 

[manwithnoname]

Good thing there's no other racist, thick footballers around isn't it?

 

[mark1975]

[quote author=Brendan link=topic=40261.msg1105178#msg1105178 date=1273919806]
Good thing there's no other racist, thick footballers around isn't it?


[/quote]

Arf!

 

[peterhague]

[quote author=mark1975 link=topic=40261.msg1105179#msg1105179 date=1273919945]
[quote author=Brendan link=topic=40261.msg1105178#msg1105178 date=1273919806]
Good thing there's no other racist, thick footballers around isn't it?


[/quote]

Arf!

[/quote]

'many of my best friends are blackshirts'

 

[themn]

I feel he should be commended for his honesty....aaah, bollocks !

Fuck him, the cunt.

I'm surprised he hasn't changed his surname.

 

[red_maradona]

this article is slightly worrying in that he is being forced and possibly punished to apologise for doing some legal, albeit suport for such a party is in my view reprehensible. team mates being unhappy with him is one thing but for the club to take a sanction is another. this type of behaviour needs to be tackled head on (maybe a diversity course or something) as opposed to punished and not discussed.

 

[Judge Jules]

I despise the BNP as much as anyone on here, but I'd have agreed with you were it not for the fact that this guy isn't being punished for his political allegiance as such. He's being punished for a dressing-room row, in the course of which he revealed his allegiance but which clearly went further than that.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Surely he can take the club to the cleaners if they take any action against him?

 

[Judge Jules]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=40261.msg1105216#msg1105216 date=1273931880]
I despise the BNP as much as anyone on here, but I'd have agreed with you were it not for the fact that this guy isn't being punished for his political allegiance as such. He's being punished for a dressing-room row, in the course of which he revealed his allegiance but which clearly went further than that.
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[Ijg]

We don't know what sort of row it was in the dressing room so can't comment whether his punishment is reasonable.

 

[ctlovesred]

A bastion of liberty aren't you. Good thing he didn't do something really bad, like say he doesn't like taxes.

Sensitivity training is due, preferably lead by someone from Al Qaeda.

 

[Judge Jules]

CT, my friend:

(a) Welcome back;

(b) Notwithstanding the sensationalist byline, the text of the report indicates the player ISN'T being punished for declaring his allegiance but for his "contribution" to a discussion which went far wider that that; and

(c) As it happens the BNP have amply documented Nazi ties and sympathies, plus a history of violence to which I can personally attest.

 

[themn]

[quote author=ctlovesred link=topic=40261.msg1105395#msg1105395 date=1273955290]
A bastion of liberty aren't you. Good thing he didn't do something really bad, like say he doesn't like taxes.

Sensitivity training is due, preferably lead by someone from Al Qaeda.
[/quote]

Is this aimed at me ?

 

[Farkmaster]

[quote author=ctlovesred link=topic=40261.msg1105395#msg1105395 date=1273955290]
A bastion of liberty aren't you. Good thing he didn't do something really bad, like say he doesn't like taxes.

Sensitivity training is due, preferably lead by someone from Al Qaeda.
[/quote]

First of all do you have a bot that trolls this forum looking for non football related posts? What's the tax reference to anyway, the impotent ravings of yet another faux American populist movement doomed to irrelevance, or that domestic terrorist who flew his plane into a building?

No one knows what the argument consisted of, but it's doubtful that it was a simple case of "who did you vote for", and much more likely it was a more heated discussion, in which the fact that he voted for the BNP emerged. Given this, it's certainly quite plausible he said things that offended his coworkers.

Given that it's a private company, management has every right to try and get him to smooth things over to foster some sort of decent working environment.

Personally, I'm offended you'd question a business in the free market responding within its rights. Why don't you just punch a bald eagle next. Why do you hate America?

 

[Atlas]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1278734/Revealed-What-BNP-supporter-Wayne-Brown-said-enrage-Leicester-team-mates.html

Having returned to the dressing room after training, where a discussion was taking place between a group of players about the election results, Brown first told a stunned, racially mixed group of players that he had voted for the BNP.
He was met with a volley of protest. But rather than defusing the situation, the player, born in Barking where BNP leader Nick Griffin was wiped out in the election by Labour's Margaret Hodge, and the party lost all its council seats, launched into an abuse attack on against ethnic minorities whom he claimed were 'killing this country'.
The reaction was furious and several players pointed out that, not only were Brown's phrases and views unacceptable, but that he had Asian, black and mixed-race colleagues.
Leicester boss Nigel Pearson suspended him for the play-off semi-finals, which the side lost to Cardiff City, and has made clear privately he no longer wishes Brown to be a part of his squad.
A statement from the club said: 'Any alleged incidents will be investigated and dealt with internally.'

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Silly boy.

Who's told the Mail this anyway?

 

[Atlas]

*shrugs*
wasn't me

 

[Farkmaster]

As I expected.

Perhaps ctlovesred will exercise his limitless american freedom and vociferously advocate racism, and suggest to all his coworkers that ethnic minorities have destroyed the US, and report back to us.

 

[Peatcheo]

[quote author=Judge Jules link=topic=40261.msg1105398#msg1105398 date=1273955897]
CT, my friend:

(a) Welcome back;

(b) Notwithstanding the sensationalist byline, the text of the report indicates the player ISN'T being punished for declaring his allegiance but for his "contribution" to a discussion which went far wider that that; and

(c) As it happens the BNP have amply documented Nazi ties and sympathies, plus a history of violence to which I can personally attest.
[/quote]

Exactly!