The difference is that Spurs fans chant Yid as a positive thing. Whether they should or not is a different argument. They are not using it to belittle a Jewish player or any other individual and they are not (from my understanding) making an anti-Semitic statement.

Im not sure I can entirely agree with that. The fans might think that it is positive, but historically Jews consider the use of the word to be offensive unless used by another Jew. Maybe it’s a bit like a black person calling another black person the n word. God forbid that any of us ever attempted that, even in jest.

Anyway, this is straying into a thread that is better suited to be discussed elsewhere on the forum.

That's awful and highly offensive not least of all to their cuisine.

My friend implied the other day that Korean meatballs are the best in the world. In fact, he said verbatim that they 'really were the dog's bo!!ocks'.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

This is actually entirely correct. The term "yid" is anti-semitic entirely dependent on usage, not by definition. When it's intended to be derogatory, then it is antisemitic and when it's not so intended, it isn't. The principle takeaway here, it seems to me, is to highlight just how difficult it is to police usage of the term.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Not a comment on the subject, but reading this thread and its equivalent on the BBS, I'd say that broadly the BBS is more liberal, and HOL appears to be more to the right on the political spectrum. Does that observation strike others as correct?

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Nah, we are mostly sensible and that place is full of left wing lunatics.