The Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust has condemned the behaviour of the club’s own supporters and called for an end to chants mocking poverty which were sung once again against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday evening.
at the top of the Premier League table, but a number of fans in the away end spent a significant amount of time signing about poverty in the city of Liverpool rather than their own team.’s 12-year rule in the United Kingdom leading to soaring foodbank usage across the country, significantly increased rates of child poverty, and a cost-of-living crisis which has decimated the finances of millions, terrace behaviour which mocks the poor has come in for strong criticism in the past few months.
Liverpool have long be a target for poverty-based mocking from rival football supporters with songs dating back to the 1980s, when former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s government plotted a ‘managed decline’ of the city designed to send it and its people into financial ruin because of its political opposition to the Conservatives’ ideology.
Now, the Spurs’ Supporters’ Trust is calling for an end to chants including ‘Sign On’, a riff on Liverpool anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone which attempts to mock unemployment rates in Liverpool. ‘Singing about the opposition has long been a feature of English football, and we are reluctant to tell fans how they should support the team,’ a statement released by the group reads. ‘Nevertheless, we were disappointed to hear the “Sign on” chant at Saturday’s away match at Anfield.
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