I am an arsenal season ticket holder - Unbelievably my dad and I almost got into a fight after an arsenal season ticket holder who sits directly behind us commented at 2-0 down that the spurs fans can stick their Jewish flag up their arses - needlessly to say we took offence.. and although this wanker apologised it was one of those moments in time that you feel disgusted to surrounded by such ignorance
black people call fellow black people the N word the whole time. however anyone who isnt black does NOT go round called other black people the N word, as this is offensive and illegal
likewise spurs fans chant to themselves for their own fun: Yido. IT IS THE SAME PRINCIPAL
u do not go round calling spurs fans and jews yids
if some players behave like pigs on the pitch, how do you expect the dumb fans to behave??? it's sad to see how racial abuse is becoming quite common in British football and some club managers are condoning it. football as a sport must be used to bring people together rather than spreading hate... anyway racial hatred has always been around and will always be around but if we can fight this monster and respect each other as human beings, life would be a lot more beautiful. lets use the L word
"Yid" is as offensive as the N word??? Are you for real?
MrBaddiel, MrLineker etc the chant (which you widely publicise) is offensive because it mocks Jewish people murdered at Auschwitz, not because it uses the word Yid.
A Spurs fanatic told me Yid is "a badge and name of honor".
Yid.com is a dating site Jewish people use. Can you imagine a dating site called "N-word.com"??? Not the same thing, really, is it?
Kick out hatred, yes. Kick out racism, yes. But this "campaign" is naive & misguided.
In the hundreds of matches i've been to, the only people i have ever heard say the word Yid, or mention anything Jewish are spurs fans. It's EXTREMELY rare for there to be any antisemitic abuse at a football match.
It's not offensive at all. Focus on those making Nazi comments and not those taking the sting out of the insult. I have plenty of Jewish friends who support Spurs and sing or say ''yido'' or ''yid army''.
the fact that non-jew spurs fans use this word in reference to themselves discredits the whole video. the talk about gas camps is some unprecedented abuse but thats almost an entirely different matter considering the context the word is normally used in football
if Spurs use the word - even as a badge of pride - that makes it acceptable for other sides to use it, often as an insult. the word isn't acceptable in any sense. there's a lack of understanding over what it means and how threatening it can sound. why do we insist on using it?
have a read about what happened around Ajax and their links to the Jewish community. that started out as a laugh and as a badge of pride... didn't end that way.
@rozzerjnr77 The P word is viewed as racist by some and as a friendly, harmless moniker by others. It's all down to the context in which it is used, for example "morning, Paddy" or "allright, Paddy?" are usually quite acceptable, whereas "you dirty Paddy so-and-so" is clearly unacceptable & racist towards the Irish.
The most common pejorative for Jews is...get this...Jew! Or Jude in other languages. Any use of the J word makes you an anti-semite by the logic in this video. Shortening words does not make them suddenly offensive, people using words in an offensive context is what makes them offensive.
Spurs fans took the name "yid-army" in the 70's as a way to blunt the anti-semitic chants that they received due to the area's high jewish population. Chants at the team and fans included: hissing to imitate gas chambers, jabs about pork, chants that involved auschwitz, etc... To deal with it, spurs fans took up the banner with pride. They proudly chanted yid-army and began using yid and yiddo to describe eachother. The supporters' use of the word shouldn't be condemned, it should be applauded.
Authority trying to tell people how they should think. Absolutely pathetic. The word "yid" can be used innocently or it can be used maliciously. Then again, those so inclined can make the most hateful comments about Jews without using yid, kike or any word like it. The correct approach, treating people like adults, would punish incidents like those in the video, and leave the language alone.
btw no one in Europe called Jews "Yids" except in Britain perhaps. People all across the Europe used their own language to call Jews names. what makes you think all Europe used English?
What do you mean? It's an English film, so obviously he's referring to the word that was used for Jews in England.
I think it's irresponsible at utterly stupid to use the Y word, especially in a racist manner. I hope you lot know that the persons who are behind this video are Jewish Chelsea fans, which says quite a lot. I'm a Chelsea fan myself.
"back in the 30s and 40s jewish people all over europe were being rounded up and killed. people called them yids"
are you saying he´s reffering to england?
the word "yid" wasn´t being used by nazis. yude - that´s how it´s pronounced in german and also slavic languages have totally differently pronounciation. Therefore there is no 2WW connotation if you chant yids yids. it can be a neo-nazi english thing if certain people mean it that way.
Initially, this chant was used against Spurs fans and it was hurled as abuse. Spurs fans actually took the hatred out of this by referring themselves to the Yid Army or Yiddos. Although it is still an offensive word I don't believe that any of us Spurs fans use the Y word as abuse. I was at the Wigan game yesterday (24/09/2011) and there were sections of the crowd making hitler signs toward the Spurs fans.... that to me is more offensive that the Spurs fans chanting "yid Army" COYS
@rogersdanny so true mate, we had everton fans singing "one adolf hitler" we've got a huge jewish following and them fans im sure chant it, but when other fans like everton fans chant "one adolf hitler" then that's racism especially when them everton fans must of had some jewish fans with them. i wonder what they thought
WTF. The N-word. The P-word. The Y-word. Is this how we'll speak in the future. I went to the B-word to have a P-word but decided to have a S-word, T-word I-word W-word M-word H-word A-word went O-word for a pint. Fuck the racists and all but stop speaking like retards. Sorry, R-word.
Coz those two in particular should know that the word "yid" has a different context when being used by Spurs fans.....seeing as Ledley's our captain & Gary played with us for 3 years...
@supahdupahguy81 It's still a derogatory term for Jews regardless of the context it's said in. And what about the chants about Auschwitz? You can hardly say that is about football.
Supadupaguy81, the fact that you have decided to call yourselves "Yids" may not be offensive to you, but is to other people. Have some thought for others rather than defending what is a racist insult just because you think that it's ironic. It's not just about what you want to be called, but how others will be affected by it. I know you see this as meddling, but Holocaust survivors or their relations will be offended, and rightly so, by this peurile name calling.
Holocaust survivors might be offended, true........but supporters of Tottenham Hotspur are not.....i accept it isn't just about what we want to be called, but it's also not just about them either...
many different words meanings & intent's are contextual....when rival fans call us yids, or we call ourselves it, it's referring to Spurs fans, not actual holocaust survivors.....so therefore the words intent in that particular scenario should be understood within it's context.
we're reclaiming the word & giving it a positive meaning, like what the African-Americans did with the N-word...
Leave football culture alone you PC fucks.....first we can't throw about the odd homophobic jibe just in case of the rare event that a gay happens to be at a football match & gets offended, & now they're criminalizing a word we actualy LIKE CALLING OURSELVES...
as a spurs fan i dont see any problem with it, yea there are some fans of other clubs chant it at us in a racist way like in video, they should target them not us!!! think of it like rappers usin the 'n' word in there music no1 classes that as racist so how is this different. just depends how u phrase it!!! YID ARMY!!!
Wen Spurs were playing Fulham, they unveiled several Israeli flags in our away end. Not only are they not too bothered, I think some of them embrace their Jewish heritage, however controversial that might make them.
I swear arsenal started calling us yidos? we call ourselves the yids because our club was founded by yids, and has always been associated with yids, so me for one, so it as a positive term because im staying true to my club roots. YID ARMY.
this is stupid. tottenham fans should be allowed to call themselves yids, it's the same as cardiff fans calling themselves sheepshaggers or grimsby calling themselves codheads - it works! obviously that chelsea chant is not on but i don't think it happens a lot, anti-gypsy/traveller chants are a lot more prevalent in my experience of watching football, people should focus on that instead.
So, according to a few of the people below, its okay for Spurs fans to say yid, but not anyone else. Dont matter who its used by, it has the same fucking meaning you plums!
This smacks of David Baddiel looking for a project to keep his name in the headlines. Yes the Chelsea song is disgusting and wrong, but spurs fans calling themselves yids? Its about context if some says they hate Yids, they usually mean spurs fans, not Jewish people.
What will be next, should I be offended and call Liverpool fans rasist for calling Spurs fans cockney b's?
@jdk946 So on that argument should the Jewish contigent at Tottenham still be able to use it because they are Jewish? I know for a fact lots of Jews sing Yido when watching Tottenham and do not see it in anyway racist. When a Spurs supporters call themselves Yids it is said with affection to the club and the people around it. There are different ways of saying the same word. Yes when idiots and Cheslea or Westham idiots say it in a derodigory way that is racist, when Spurs fans use it is not
I don't think there should be any prejudice in football. The Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Whites, Blacks, Indians and Chinese should all get together.....
It's not offensive at all. I mean, that song about the holocaust in the video is offensive, and wrong. But, from my experience as a Chelsea fan, having seen us play them many times at the Bridge and the Lane, we have never sung a song like that. All we do is sing "yido, yido". And the Spurs fans call themselves yids too. It's just banter between two sets of fans at the end of the day. People are just overreacting tbh by claiming its "racist". Racist is too storng a word to use in this context
'yid' is yiddish for jew, that's why the language is called yiddish (the jewish language.) but nowadays for some reason even the dictionary defines it as pffencive, but jews call jews yidden all the time, yh i know blacks call blacks 'nigger' and that doesn't make it right, but yid is totally innocent, but those scum hissing should just DIE a slow and painful death
'yid' is yiddish for jew, that's why the language is called yiddish (the jewish language.) but nowadays for some reason even the dictionary defines it as pffencive, but jews call jews yidden all the time, yh i know blacks call blacks 'nigger' and that doesn't make it right, but yid is totally innocent
Wot bout the H word (honkie) o sorry you can't be racist towards white people can you, f**king bullshit colored people are more racist to us than we are them!!!!!
For many this chant is clearly being used to put down a large number of people and suggest they are in some way inferior. David Baddiel is Jewish and he is clearly offended. People should not think that because the colour of a Jewish persons skin is likely to be white that they are not being racist. I suspect most of those who chant this word would not do so in their place of work for fear of lossing their job.
WTF ? is this bullshit people ..maybe they will start say we need to ban to say (ABCD) CUZ IT OFFENDS SOME RACE? HOW COME THEY CAN CALL US WHITE TRASH AND NO ONE DOSN'T GIVE A FUCK ,,BUT WE CAN CALL THEM WHAT WE WANT IN OUR OWN LANDS..WHERE IS THIS WORLD GOING TO...DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION OF COMMUNISTS.
@TheBighairyfart erm i think i know... i'm a jew and i can't speak much yiddish but i know that the reason it's called yid-ish is coz its a jewish language... and yid means jew trust me
The reason Spurs fans (myself included) call ourselves Yiddos is because it's a defense mechanism against rival fans who'd chant it at us in a malicious manner. We adopted it as our own chant in order to prevent the hatred. Chants like the Auschwitz song or referring to Hitler are completely unacceptable and people who are caught doing this should be severely dealt with. I've personally seen Palace fans hissing to replicate gas chambers and it was unpleasant, but 'Yid Army' is Spurs' best chant.
@MrGann88 It isn't your word to use though. It's not right to take a word that has been used to justify the oppression and murder of people and turn it into a word for you to use in your petty football arguments. It's just not appropriate.
This campaign of Baddiel's is hollow & irrelevent. Personally I am not jewish but I know jewish Spurs supporting freinds that will chant "Yid-Army" with pride until the kosher cows come home! On the flip side I have been called "big nosed yid c**t" & that was undeniably unpleasant, but nowadays the later is rare.
The key factor at the centre of this debate is 'context' & the manner & tone in which the word is used, & over time surely the the connotation of a word can be changed for good or bad.
I don't think that Tottenham fans or any fans in general need to use a racist word in order to present their identity as fans of the club. If they will stop calling themselves that, rival fans will eventually stop too. I've personally been called that word and I don't know about you but I had hated it. It is utterly pointless to use a racist word for any reason. Fighting any forms of racism is also fighting the racist word it's self.
I'm a Jewish Spurs fan and find this campaign ridiculous! Political correct society has gone mad! The word Yid has been watered down by Spurs making it a badge of honour and removing its negative historical stigma. It's only when you combine it with antisemitic abuse (used by rival fans) where it becomes a problem. So you want to ban the word Yid? They'll just use another word along with the same torrent of abuse. Push a campaign antisemitism, but not against the word Yid!
Darn it - I suppose this means all the Spurs fans at my local pub could be banned/arrested...{Look at that bloke arrested for singing Kung Fu Fighting 'cos some Chinese complained}...for chanting Yid army when Spurs is on the telly.
3 of my closest mates are Jewish, I call them Yids, they call me a dirty Arab, camel rapist etc. Where's the problem? Banter will be a punishable offence if this carries on.
Spurs have done did the most constructive thing with the word yid, similar to the black community has the Nword. We reinvented it when it was hurled at us as a mark of hate we turned it around.
If the FA or this charity had gotten off their arses in the 80’s when Arsenal and Chelsea fans were using a derogatory chant towards us then we wouldn’t be using it as, yet all of a sudden fucking Baddiel (a Chelsea fan) decides he does want to her it any more so its gone. Well tough fucking luck buddy
Super Frank I love you! I'm jewish Chelsea fan and I'm proud to be. We can focus on football, and not hate each other because we're from different religions! I never hated anyone because they were christians or muslims, and there's no reason to hate jewish people either.
WILL EVERYONE GET A GRIP, YES THE AUSCHWITZ SONG IS DISGUSTING, BUT THE MAJORITY OF FANS (ARSENAL/CHELSEA-LIST GOES ON) DONT CALL SPURS THE YIDS TO BE RACIST, AS AN ARSENAL FAN I SING SONGS NOT RACIST SONGS ANTI TOTTENHAM SONGS THAT SOMETIMES INCLUDE THE WORD YID OR YIDOS, IVE NEVER CLASSED THOSE SONGS AS RACIST SONGS, BECAUSE THEY ARENT. SPURS WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS THE YIDS WETHER THE OPPOSITION STOP CALLING THEM IT OR NOT
That right its all Spurs fault, not Chelsea,Arsenal or anyother club who's supports act ignorant by using hissing sounds or sing racist chants. I mean to blame people for being proud of there communities and taking the negative out of word is insane. I am of Jewish decent and the word yid doesn't bother me. I've been called far worse things for being Hispanic than Jewish. Its your supporters who need to wake up and realize that its not funny using those chants or sounds. Not us! Yiddo Chicago
I don't follow your rationale!! No racist, offensive, homophobic or anti semitic chants are acceptable in this day and age whether it be about 'gassing the jews,' anti-black etc etc whether sang by us Gooners, Spurs fans or any other club. As a proud Jewish fan at AFC for over 25 years I find it offensive as do thousands of other fellow Jewish season ticket holders at the Emirates. If you sit behind me and start singing, I will point you out to the nearest steward to get you banned!!
@Jules101ful No offence but there is not thousands of other jews that support Arsenal, the fact of the matter is that Arsenal fans have always chanted about yids or made up songs about jews, I personally don't understand why jews support Arsenal
Please play it at WHL as well as Emirates, Chelea, WHU etc. I'm a proud Jewish gooner for 30 years. A memorable moment was being witness to a fellow gooner knocking out a moronic gooner for singing the 'Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz' chant a few years ago outside Highbury. Deserved!! Obviously THFC and their supporters groups need to get their own house in order by educating their own fans (Jew & non-Jew) not to refer to themselves by the Y-word. I will never refer to Spuds as the Yiddos.
I am a proud Jewish gooner and will never ever join in any ;'Yiddo' chant or refer to them as the Yids. I witnessed a fellow gooner singing the 'Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz' chant outside Highbury several years ago and he got punched in the face by another Arsenal fan (almost certainly Jewish.) Although I don't condone any such violence, he thoroughly deserved it. In short, the Spurs supporters groups and club itself need to start by banning the Y word from their own stands.
they neglect to mention the fact that most of those people chanting "yiddo", are tottenham supporters who call themselves that.
its like telling black people they cant call themselves, or each other "nigga", or any other racial group having a name to distinguish themselves, where if anyone else uses it, being outside that group, it would be racist.
This is bullshit, i bet if everyone happened to start saying Christian or some shit like that nobody would take offense to it, if jewish people are offended by it, let them speak up and let us hear what they think of it !! YIDOOO NEVER RED !
very important that this message comes to the foreftont now!
however, anti-semitism is not racism. Race is based on genetics of skin colour whereas the Jews are a people not drawn together by any genetic trait, and not even by religion.
So yes, kick anti-semitism AND racism from football!
I don't think there should be any prejudice in football. The Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Whites, Blacks, Indians and Chinese should all get together.....
I'm a German Jewish Arsenal fan who has always respected Tottenham for their identification with the word that was hurled at them (traditionally mostly by Arsenal Supporters when jews were still living further to the east of North London) ALthough there was never anything very craney and political about that, and only served as a nice retort in the typical banter and beating culture around the stadium, it used to be a brilliant tradition, as it's so unique within the chauvinist football culture.
However, by now, Tottenham is connected with the jewish heritage only by remnants of historical buildings and a couple of older fans who don't usually visit the games themselves.. and the yiddo-chants. It's become a pretext for starting fights and preserving a violant atmosphere ...it should stop because it has nothing to do with judaism, in fact brings it into disrepute.
this is ridiculous hahahaha. "it is not ok for black people to call eachother the n word", yet they still do, and yes they should be able to! Black people were opressed for hundreds of years, and they can use that word because they were born into that race and don't and couldn't mean it offensively! similarly how gay people can call eachother the f word within reason and it not be offensive. the difference is, you don't choos
I am an arsenal season ticket holder - Unbelievably my dad and I almost got into a fight after an arsenal season ticket holder who sits directly behind us commented at 2-0 down that the spurs fans can stick their Jewish flag up their arses - needlessly to say we took offence.. and although this wanker apologised it was one of those moments in time that you feel disgusted to surrounded by such ignorance
azzads13 3 days ago
Unintentionally funny.
nspatchcock 1 week ago
PEOPLE!!
black people call fellow black people the N word the whole time. however anyone who isnt black does NOT go round called other black people the N word, as this is offensive and illegal
likewise spurs fans chant to themselves for their own fun: Yido. IT IS THE SAME PRINCIPAL
u do not go round calling spurs fans and jews yids
MsJoshd10 2 weeks ago 2
if some players behave like pigs on the pitch, how do you expect the dumb fans to behave??? it's sad to see how racial abuse is becoming quite common in British football and some club managers are condoning it. football as a sport must be used to bring people together rather than spreading hate... anyway racial hatred has always been around and will always be around but if we can fight this monster and respect each other as human beings, life would be a lot more beautiful. lets use the L word
GeneralRB 2 weeks ago
"Yid" is as offensive as the N word??? Are you for real?
MrBaddiel, MrLineker etc the chant (which you widely publicise) is offensive because it mocks Jewish people murdered at Auschwitz, not because it uses the word Yid.
A Spurs fanatic told me Yid is "a badge and name of honor".
Yid.com is a dating site Jewish people use. Can you imagine a dating site called "N-word.com"??? Not the same thing, really, is it?
Kick out hatred, yes. Kick out racism, yes. But this "campaign" is naive & misguided.
videoreff 3 weeks ago 2
In the hundreds of matches i've been to, the only people i have ever heard say the word Yid, or mention anything Jewish are spurs fans. It's EXTREMELY rare for there to be any antisemitic abuse at a football match.
SgtPepperEverton 1 month ago
This has been a success hasn't it?
It's not offensive at all. Focus on those making Nazi comments and not those taking the sting out of the insult. I have plenty of Jewish friends who support Spurs and sing or say ''yido'' or ''yid army''.
iLecter 1 month ago
the fact that non-jew spurs fans use this word in reference to themselves discredits the whole video. the talk about gas camps is some unprecedented abuse but thats almost an entirely different matter considering the context the word is normally used in football
blaydewho0 1 month ago
So this is where Gibbs has been??!!
Bigupdagunners 1 month ago
So many ignorance in the world, ohhh God!!
MrBrvno 1 month ago
if Spurs use the word - even as a badge of pride - that makes it acceptable for other sides to use it, often as an insult. the word isn't acceptable in any sense. there's a lack of understanding over what it means and how threatening it can sound. why do we insist on using it?
have a read about what happened around Ajax and their links to the Jewish community. that started out as a laugh and as a badge of pride... didn't end that way.
mimimirwitch 1 month ago in playlist More videos from KickItOutOfficial
wats the p word
rozzerjnr77 1 month ago
@rozzerjnr77 POTATO!!!
Bigupdagunners 1 month ago
@rozzerjnr77 "Paki"
SgtPepperEverton 1 month ago
@rozzerjnr77 The P word is viewed as racist by some and as a friendly, harmless moniker by others. It's all down to the context in which it is used, for example "morning, Paddy" or "allright, Paddy?" are usually quite acceptable, whereas "you dirty Paddy so-and-so" is clearly unacceptable & racist towards the Irish.
videoreff 3 weeks ago
The most common pejorative for Jews is...get this...Jew! Or Jude in other languages. Any use of the J word makes you an anti-semite by the logic in this video. Shortening words does not make them suddenly offensive, people using words in an offensive context is what makes them offensive.
valleyshrew 1 month ago
YID ARMY!!!YID ARMY!!!YID ARMY!!!
gauntmj 2 months ago
Spurs fans took the name "yid-army" in the 70's as a way to blunt the anti-semitic chants that they received due to the area's high jewish population. Chants at the team and fans included: hissing to imitate gas chambers, jabs about pork, chants that involved auschwitz, etc... To deal with it, spurs fans took up the banner with pride. They proudly chanted yid-army and began using yid and yiddo to describe eachother. The supporters' use of the word shouldn't be condemned, it should be applauded.
gscgarvey 2 months ago 2
How can it be offensive when they call it themselves? Yiddo isn't offensive to them, but refering to Hitler is.
WiLKOOO1 2 months ago
...A word beginning with P? I don't even know what that would be...Prick? Puff? Ponce? What?
smile221 2 months ago
@smile221 Paki.
kakashiuchiha33 2 months ago
@kakashiuchiha33 Couldn't they find a genuinely pakistani sportsperson for this? He's whiter than I am, and I'm Welsh!
smile221 2 months ago
Well, I guess it could be solved with a handshake! Has my comment caused offence? Please see Mr.Sepp Blatter to launch a complaint.
hybird55 2 months ago
I get mad when people call me the W word, I'm white and proud of it, where the fuck is my video
santaonthecross 2 months ago
Authority trying to tell people how they should think. Absolutely pathetic. The word "yid" can be used innocently or it can be used maliciously. Then again, those so inclined can make the most hateful comments about Jews without using yid, kike or any word like it. The correct approach, treating people like adults, would punish incidents like those in the video, and leave the language alone.
matei2005 3 months ago
@matei2005 That's like saying it's ok to call someone a nigger as long as you don't mean it.
MCLambfat 3 months ago
@MCLambfat clearly it isn't. Clearly you haven't grasped the issue, or my point.
matei2005 3 months ago
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TomWHL 4 months ago
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chelsea fans are the most racist in the country
ooooooooooohyea 4 months ago
Where does a black yid sit? At the back of the oven!
sohc287 4 months ago
@sohc287 where does your dad's cock sit? up ur ass.
schmatever 4 months ago
is it against the law to call MYSELF a Yiddo??
btw no one in Europe called Jews "Yids" except in Britain perhaps. People all across the Europe used their own language to call Jews names. what makes you think all Europe used English?
TomWHL 5 months ago
@TomWHL
What do you mean? It's an English film, so obviously he's referring to the word that was used for Jews in England.
I think it's irresponsible at utterly stupid to use the Y word, especially in a racist manner. I hope you lot know that the persons who are behind this video are Jewish Chelsea fans, which says quite a lot. I'm a Chelsea fan myself.
ToniKallioInMyHeart 4 months ago
@ToniKallioInMyHeart you made me watch this again :-(
"back in the 30s and 40s jewish people all over europe were being rounded up and killed. people called them yids"
are you saying he´s reffering to england?
the word "yid" wasn´t being used by nazis. yude - that´s how it´s pronounced in german and also slavic languages have totally differently pronounciation. Therefore there is no 2WW connotation if you chant yids yids. it can be a neo-nazi english thing if certain people mean it that way.
TomWHL 4 months ago
@TomWHL
For God's sake... People in England called them yids, obviously not in Germany. It's btw spelled "Juden" in German.
A stupid word to use anyway.
ToniKallioInMyHeart 3 months ago
Initially, this chant was used against Spurs fans and it was hurled as abuse. Spurs fans actually took the hatred out of this by referring themselves to the Yid Army or Yiddos. Although it is still an offensive word I don't believe that any of us Spurs fans use the Y word as abuse. I was at the Wigan game yesterday (24/09/2011) and there were sections of the crowd making hitler signs toward the Spurs fans.... that to me is more offensive that the Spurs fans chanting "yid Army" COYS
rogersdanny 5 months ago 7
@rogersdanny so true mate, we had everton fans singing "one adolf hitler" we've got a huge jewish following and them fans im sure chant it, but when other fans like everton fans chant "one adolf hitler" then that's racism especially when them everton fans must of had some jewish fans with them. i wonder what they thought
onehotspur94 2 months ago
jew is a race and im telling you that as a jew! a man that was born to a jew mother then he also a jew even if he dont follow the religion...
yakov4545 6 months ago 6
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@yakov4545 There's no such thing as race.
TrolleyPower 3 months ago
@yakov4545 and that is just plain stupid.
kotso28 2 days ago
Yids 4ever! COYS!
whiteblueole 6 months ago
Yid Army!
tommyddoolin 6 months ago
P word? Pussy?
DumbassAdult 6 months ago
@DumbassAdult No, Paki.
tommyddoolin 6 months ago 2
@tommyddoolin And that is OMFG offensive? I always thought its just a short form. Well well.
DumbassAdult 6 months ago
@DumbassAdult So did I like calling a Scottish person a Scot, but apparently it's racist now for some reason.
tommyddoolin 6 months ago
@tommyddoolin LOLWUT? So how r u supposed to call em now?
DumbassAdult 6 months ago
этот мир убьет политкорректность
GeboGar 6 months ago
I am jew and Tottenham fans can call me yidd!
sanity394 6 months ago
Question: Are they calling non-jews "Yids" too?
qigong1001 6 months ago
Why are people thumbing the top comments up. It is never appropriate to call someone a 'Yid'
MCLambfat 6 months ago
WTF. The N-word. The P-word. The Y-word. Is this how we'll speak in the future. I went to the B-word to have a P-word but decided to have a S-word, T-word I-word W-word M-word H-word A-word went O-word for a pint. Fuck the racists and all but stop speaking like retards. Sorry, R-word.
MUFC127 6 months ago
@MUFC127 Oh shut up, what else are they supposed to say??
rockingrugger 3 months ago
must say i'm disappointed at the appearance of Ledley & Gary Lineker in this vid.....
they really ought to know better...
supahdupahguy81 6 months ago
@supahdupahguy81 Why?
MCLambfat 6 months ago
@MCLambfat
Coz those two in particular should know that the word "yid" has a different context when being used by Spurs fans.....seeing as Ledley's our captain & Gary played with us for 3 years...
supahdupahguy81 6 months ago
@supahdupahguy81 It's still a derogatory term for Jews regardless of the context it's said in. And what about the chants about Auschwitz? You can hardly say that is about football.
MCLambfat 6 months ago
YIIIID AAARRMMYY
ZeDoctor 7 months ago
@schmatever Your 'reply' (if you could call it that) was pretty fucking lame. Are you some sort of yid?
StillSoapy 7 months ago
mfcwoody2k10x is poor and gets bullied at school by pakis
LUFCwoody14 7 months ago
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UnionOfJack 7 months ago
Supadupaguy81, the fact that you have decided to call yourselves "Yids" may not be offensive to you, but is to other people. Have some thought for others rather than defending what is a racist insult just because you think that it's ironic. It's not just about what you want to be called, but how others will be affected by it. I know you see this as meddling, but Holocaust survivors or their relations will be offended, and rightly so, by this peurile name calling.
TheSteveBrain 7 months ago
@TheSteveBrain
Holocaust survivors might be offended, true........but supporters of Tottenham Hotspur are not.....i accept it isn't just about what we want to be called, but it's also not just about them either...
many different words meanings & intent's are contextual....when rival fans call us yids, or we call ourselves it, it's referring to Spurs fans, not actual holocaust survivors.....so therefore the words intent in that particular scenario should be understood within it's context.
supahdupahguy81 6 months ago
LUFCwoody14 got tossed of by a jew
mfcwoody2k10x 7 months ago
mfcwoody2k10x is a yid himself
LUFCwoody14 7 months ago
Lol at the second one the smelly paki
mfcwoody2k10x 7 months ago
we call ourselves yids you idiots...
we're reclaiming the word & giving it a positive meaning, like what the African-Americans did with the N-word...
Leave football culture alone you PC fucks.....first we can't throw about the odd homophobic jibe just in case of the rare event that a gay happens to be at a football match & gets offended, & now they're criminalizing a word we actualy LIKE CALLING OURSELVES...
These ppl are woefully out of touch...
supahdupahguy81 8 months ago
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supahdupahguy81 8 months ago
paki ?
715HQ 8 months ago
What's the P word?
logan2233e 8 months ago
as a spurs fan i dont see any problem with it, yea there are some fans of other clubs chant it at us in a racist way like in video, they should target them not us!!! think of it like rappers usin the 'n' word in there music no1 classes that as racist so how is this different. just depends how u phrase it!!! YID ARMY!!!
yid864life 8 months ago
@yid864life thats not how a holocaust survivor would see it.
TheSteveBrain 7 months ago
This is hilarious!
ballard94 8 months ago
Wen Spurs were playing Fulham, they unveiled several Israeli flags in our away end. Not only are they not too bothered, I think some of them embrace their Jewish heritage, however controversial that might make them.
WilVanSeagull 8 months ago
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WilVanSeagull 8 months ago
I swear arsenal started calling us yidos? we call ourselves the yids because our club was founded by yids, and has always been associated with yids, so me for one, so it as a positive term because im staying true to my club roots. YID ARMY.
Christophergeoffrey 8 months ago
To the comments below: How is chanting about Auschwitz not racist?!
bjcsupertortoise 8 months ago 3
yeah. whats the p word?
reddevil2307 8 months ago
Spurs fans see it as an honour. I agree it's wrong, but you can't stamp out something that some Spurs fans see as positive.
BlueBlood859 8 months ago
whats the p word?
MegaGUNRUNNERIII 8 months ago
@MegaGUNRUNNERIII paki
LUFCwoody14 8 months ago
@LUFCwoody14 oh yeah..
MegaGUNRUNNERIII 8 months ago
I don't think I've seen anything this horribly misconceived since Baddiel's Syndrome.
Tottenham fans refer to themselves as Yids, some football fans are racist - where's the corellation?
Slackula1 9 months ago
this is stupid. tottenham fans should be allowed to call themselves yids, it's the same as cardiff fans calling themselves sheepshaggers or grimsby calling themselves codheads - it works! obviously that chelsea chant is not on but i don't think it happens a lot, anti-gypsy/traveller chants are a lot more prevalent in my experience of watching football, people should focus on that instead.
'y-word' ha!
TheCheekycc 9 months ago
Could they not find one Jewish sportsperson?
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@k9p2 yeah look at 1:03
iblast003i 2 months ago
So, according to a few of the people below, its okay for Spurs fans to say yid, but not anyone else. Dont matter who its used by, it has the same fucking meaning you plums!
Skeletoncru 9 months ago
I'm a Jewish Spurs fan and I'd be offended if fellow, non-Jewish supporters didn't chant this to deflect anti-Semitism
GeeMixer 9 months ago
the song in the middle about hitler is sung by chelsea fans.. why would spurs fans be racist to themselves?? PS YOUR SHIT LAMPARD
torchythfc 9 months ago
Where's Yossi?
LaserDude333 9 months ago
This smacks of David Baddiel looking for a project to keep his name in the headlines. Yes the Chelsea song is disgusting and wrong, but spurs fans calling themselves yids? Its about context if some says they hate Yids, they usually mean spurs fans, not Jewish people.
What will be next, should I be offended and call Liverpool fans rasist for calling Spurs fans cockney b's?
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jdk946 9 months ago
@jdk946 So on that argument should the Jewish contigent at Tottenham still be able to use it because they are Jewish? I know for a fact lots of Jews sing Yido when watching Tottenham and do not see it in anyway racist. When a Spurs supporters call themselves Yids it is said with affection to the club and the people around it. There are different ways of saying the same word. Yes when idiots and Cheslea or Westham idiots say it in a derodigory way that is racist, when Spurs fans use it is not
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harryhotspur123 9 months ago
This is utter bullshit, just like the judas and adebayor song's being branded "racist" get a fuckin grip!
LoyalYidoo 9 months ago
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I don't think there should be any prejudice in football. The Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Whites, Blacks, Indians and Chinese should all get together.....
and fight the Pakistanis!
TrollingAccount 9 months ago
It's not offensive at all. I mean, that song about the holocaust in the video is offensive, and wrong. But, from my experience as a Chelsea fan, having seen us play them many times at the Bridge and the Lane, we have never sung a song like that. All we do is sing "yido, yido". And the Spurs fans call themselves yids too. It's just banter between two sets of fans at the end of the day. People are just overreacting tbh by claiming its "racist". Racist is too storng a word to use in this context
SameStuffNewStart 9 months ago
'yid' is yiddish for jew, that's why the language is called yiddish (the jewish language.) but nowadays for some reason even the dictionary defines it as pffencive, but jews call jews yidden all the time, yh i know blacks call blacks 'nigger' and that doesn't make it right, but yid is totally innocent, but those scum hissing should just DIE a slow and painful death
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
'yid' is yiddish for jew, that's why the language is called yiddish (the jewish language.) but nowadays for some reason even the dictionary defines it as pffencive, but jews call jews yidden all the time, yh i know blacks call blacks 'nigger' and that doesn't make it right, but yid is totally innocent
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
Im a jew and when im at paxton road i chant YID ARMY im proud of it so what u gonna tell me that im a self hating jew YID ARMY COYS!!!!!!!
Spursie09 10 months ago
@Spursie09 G-d bless you sugarplum
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
Wot bout the H word (honkie) o sorry you can't be racist towards white people can you, f**king bullshit colored people are more racist to us than we are them!!!!!
SydneyVB 10 months ago
For many this chant is clearly being used to put down a large number of people and suggest they are in some way inferior. David Baddiel is Jewish and he is clearly offended. People should not think that because the colour of a Jewish persons skin is likely to be white that they are not being racist. I suspect most of those who chant this word would not do so in their place of work for fear of lossing their job.
allandavies27 10 months ago
Yid Army isn't racist. It's a badge of honour.
sleepeaze 10 months ago 21
WTF ? is this bullshit people ..maybe they will start say we need to ban to say (ABCD) CUZ IT OFFENDS SOME RACE? HOW COME THEY CAN CALL US WHITE TRASH AND NO ONE DOSN'T GIVE A FUCK ,,BUT WE CAN CALL THEM WHAT WE WANT IN OUR OWN LANDS..WHERE IS THIS WORLD GOING TO...DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION OF COMMUNISTS.
verdefull 10 months ago
Yiiiiid ARMY!!!!
You'll not succeed in taking our identity from us!
COYS!
kalk23 10 months ago 5
@kalk23 yid is yiddish for jew... if ur not a jew: yid is not ur identity, I'm a choshuve yid!
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
@MordechaiKestecher No its a term for tottenham supporters, no race can lay exclusive claim to a word.
TheBighairyfart 10 months ago
@TheBighairyfart erm i think i know... i'm a jew and i can't speak much yiddish but i know that the reason it's called yid-ish is coz its a jewish language... and yid means jew trust me
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
The reason Spurs fans (myself included) call ourselves Yiddos is because it's a defense mechanism against rival fans who'd chant it at us in a malicious manner. We adopted it as our own chant in order to prevent the hatred. Chants like the Auschwitz song or referring to Hitler are completely unacceptable and people who are caught doing this should be severely dealt with. I've personally seen Palace fans hissing to replicate gas chambers and it was unpleasant, but 'Yid Army' is Spurs' best chant.
MrGann88 10 months ago 3
@MrGann88 It isn't your word to use though. It's not right to take a word that has been used to justify the oppression and murder of people and turn it into a word for you to use in your petty football arguments. It's just not appropriate.
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NIGGER! PAKI! YID!
I'm awesome at this game
miked20061 10 months ago
NIGGER! PAKI! YID!
I'm awesome a this game
miked20061 10 months ago
@miked20061 you dafkenik!
MordechaiKestecher 10 months ago
Chelsea all the way
PhobetorXVII 10 months ago
tottenham are shit I lm from Israel and I hate tottenham
PhobetorXVII 10 months ago
I'm Jewish and support arsenal fuck spurs I'm a arsenal yid and go to every game going in a few hours to the united game cmon arsenal
kiviarsenal 10 months ago 2
P word ! im a spurs fan ! YIDDDS 4 LIFE !!!!
TheDarren7129 10 months ago 10
YIDOOOO
MrJamesgalv 10 months ago
whats the word with p?
ScrewMyLife1 10 months ago
@ScrewMyLife1 pakistani or "paki" which is usually used loosely on anyone with this kind of skin tone, shamefully.
weebob360 10 months ago
This campaign of Baddiel's is hollow & irrelevent. Personally I am not jewish but I know jewish Spurs supporting freinds that will chant "Yid-Army" with pride until the kosher cows come home! On the flip side I have been called "big nosed yid c**t" & that was undeniably unpleasant, but nowadays the later is rare.
The key factor at the centre of this debate is 'context' & the manner & tone in which the word is used, & over time surely the the connotation of a word can be changed for good or bad.
jamjay1972 10 months ago
It's like getting taught a lecture by you're PE teacher lol.
iambrolyhaha 10 months ago
@joelspace
I don't think that Tottenham fans or any fans in general need to use a racist word in order to present their identity as fans of the club. If they will stop calling themselves that, rival fans will eventually stop too. I've personally been called that word and I don't know about you but I had hated it. It is utterly pointless to use a racist word for any reason. Fighting any forms of racism is also fighting the racist word it's self.
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Chelseacasual 10 months ago
I'm a Jewish Spurs fan and find this campaign ridiculous! Political correct society has gone mad! The word Yid has been watered down by Spurs making it a badge of honour and removing its negative historical stigma. It's only when you combine it with antisemitic abuse (used by rival fans) where it becomes a problem. So you want to ban the word Yid? They'll just use another word along with the same torrent of abuse. Push a campaign antisemitism, but not against the word Yid!
joelspace 10 months ago 6
lol the bradford player- but they don't do that anymore either- sounds stupid
lSullstar 10 months ago
y word army
cockadoodledoo0001 10 months ago
Darn it - I suppose this means all the Spurs fans at my local pub could be banned/arrested...{Look at that bloke arrested for singing Kung Fu Fighting 'cos some Chinese complained}...for chanting Yid army when Spurs is on the telly.
This PC nonsense is getting out of hand.
JollyRodders 10 months ago
This video is ridicolous, its a non issue.
TheBighairyfart 10 months ago
Yid army!
TheBighairyfart 10 months ago
YID ARMY!
ESSEXYIDS 10 months ago 6
3 of my closest mates are Jewish, I call them Yids, they call me a dirty Arab, camel rapist etc. Where's the problem? Banter will be a punishable offence if this carries on.
spackhollogay 10 months ago
yiiiidoooooooooooo
MdaG10 10 months ago
Spurs have done did the most constructive thing with the word yid, similar to the black community has the Nword. We reinvented it when it was hurled at us as a mark of hate we turned it around.
If the FA or this charity had gotten off their arses in the 80’s when Arsenal and Chelsea fans were using a derogatory chant towards us then we wouldn’t be using it as, yet all of a sudden fucking Baddiel (a Chelsea fan) decides he does want to her it any more so its gone. Well tough fucking luck buddy
DCTheGuitarist 10 months ago
Super Frank I love you! I'm jewish Chelsea fan and I'm proud to be. We can focus on football, and not hate each other because we're from different religions! I never hated anyone because they were christians or muslims, and there's no reason to hate jewish people either.
5A12S29 10 months ago
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daddyschlong14 10 months ago
this is gay, you should see want Feyenoord fans shout to ajax fans
juve458 10 months ago
WILL EVERYONE GET A GRIP, YES THE AUSCHWITZ SONG IS DISGUSTING, BUT THE MAJORITY OF FANS (ARSENAL/CHELSEA-LIST GOES ON) DONT CALL SPURS THE YIDS TO BE RACIST, AS AN ARSENAL FAN I SING SONGS NOT RACIST SONGS ANTI TOTTENHAM SONGS THAT SOMETIMES INCLUDE THE WORD YID OR YIDOS, IVE NEVER CLASSED THOSE SONGS AS RACIST SONGS, BECAUSE THEY ARENT. SPURS WILL ALWAYS BE KNOWN AS THE YIDS WETHER THE OPPOSITION STOP CALLING THEM IT OR NOT
AFCFinch 10 months ago
That right its all Spurs fault, not Chelsea,Arsenal or anyother club who's supports act ignorant by using hissing sounds or sing racist chants. I mean to blame people for being proud of there communities and taking the negative out of word is insane. I am of Jewish decent and the word yid doesn't bother me. I've been called far worse things for being Hispanic than Jewish. Its your supporters who need to wake up and realize that its not funny using those chants or sounds. Not us! Yiddo Chicago
andrewrivera11 10 months ago
Fuck all of you people that disliked this video. All of you.
spiffybardman 10 months ago
roman abramovic is jewish l0l
dumb racist fucks
REALLRAPMUSIC 10 months ago 2
I don't follow your rationale!! No racist, offensive, homophobic or anti semitic chants are acceptable in this day and age whether it be about 'gassing the jews,' anti-black etc etc whether sang by us Gooners, Spurs fans or any other club. As a proud Jewish fan at AFC for over 25 years I find it offensive as do thousands of other fellow Jewish season ticket holders at the Emirates. If you sit behind me and start singing, I will point you out to the nearest steward to get you banned!!
Jules101ful 10 months ago
@Jules101ful No offence but there is not thousands of other jews that support Arsenal, the fact of the matter is that Arsenal fans have always chanted about yids or made up songs about jews, I personally don't understand why jews support Arsenal
mcrudeboi123456789 1 month ago
@CharlieSpeary gala 2000 is an example , psg in the mid 90#s another one , not been any euro aways since last season though so i dno about this year
kicked off at roma , greece , tu*key and russia though
ARSENAL4Scum1 10 months ago
Please play it at WHL as well as Emirates, Chelea, WHU etc. I'm a proud Jewish gooner for 30 years. A memorable moment was being witness to a fellow gooner knocking out a moronic gooner for singing the 'Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz' chant a few years ago outside Highbury. Deserved!! Obviously THFC and their supporters groups need to get their own house in order by educating their own fans (Jew & non-Jew) not to refer to themselves by the Y-word. I will never refer to Spuds as the Yiddos.
Jules101ful 10 months ago 2
I am a proud Jewish gooner and will never ever join in any ;'Yiddo' chant or refer to them as the Yids. I witnessed a fellow gooner singing the 'Spurs are on their way to Auschwitz' chant outside Highbury several years ago and he got punched in the face by another Arsenal fan (almost certainly Jewish.) Although I don't condone any such violence, he thoroughly deserved it. In short, the Spurs supporters groups and club itself need to start by banning the Y word from their own stands.
Jules101ful 10 months ago
@CharlieSpeary you do know why spurs fans started using yid/yiddos in songs? It was to show solidarity with their jewish fans
ricardocummins1988 10 months ago
You can tell that the people featured in this video have absolutely no emotion in what there saying
tinyJJG 10 months ago
they neglect to mention the fact that most of those people chanting "yiddo", are tottenham supporters who call themselves that.
its like telling black people they cant call themselves, or each other "nigga", or any other racial group having a name to distinguish themselves, where if anyone else uses it, being outside that group, it would be racist.
FOFballer 10 months ago
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pekkauolevi 10 months ago
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This is bullshit, i bet if everyone happened to start saying Christian or some shit like that nobody would take offense to it, if jewish people are offended by it, let them speak up and let us hear what they think of it !! YIDOOO NEVER RED !
LittleJOL 10 months ago
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goodares237 10 months ago
i'm from israel and a liverpool fan.
do liverpool fans insult jews too??
amichair 10 months ago
It's just abit off banter, like mother jokes it's out off date, we live in 2011 who cares. Man up people!!!!!
balf1111117373 10 months ago
very important that this message comes to the foreftont now!
however, anti-semitism is not racism. Race is based on genetics of skin colour whereas the Jews are a people not drawn together by any genetic trait, and not even by religion.
So yes, kick anti-semitism AND racism from football!
Nemostor 10 months ago
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I don't think there should be any prejudice in football. The Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Whites, Blacks, Indians and Chinese should all get together.....
and fight the Pakistanis!
TrollingAccount 10 months ago 26
@TrollingAccount LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
amichair 10 months ago
@TrollingAccount hahahahah yeh they really should. fucking pakis
portvale999 10 months ago
I'm a German Jewish Arsenal fan who has always respected Tottenham for their identification with the word that was hurled at them (traditionally mostly by Arsenal Supporters when jews were still living further to the east of North London) ALthough there was never anything very craney and political about that, and only served as a nice retort in the typical banter and beating culture around the stadium, it used to be a brilliant tradition, as it's so unique within the chauvinist football culture.
timidtom 10 months ago 3
However, by now, Tottenham is connected with the jewish heritage only by remnants of historical buildings and a couple of older fans who don't usually visit the games themselves.. and the yiddo-chants. It's become a pretext for starting fights and preserving a violant atmosphere ...it should stop because it has nothing to do with judaism, in fact brings it into disrepute.
timidtom 10 months ago
Gary said the Y word!! Think again gary!! :p
paddy0809 10 months ago
this is ridiculous hahahaha. "it is not ok for black people to call eachother the n word", yet they still do, and yes they should be able to! Black people were opressed for hundreds of years, and they can use that word because they were born into that race and don't and couldn't mean it offensively! similarly how gay people can call eachother the f word within reason and it not be offensive. the difference is, you don't choos