Maybe just maybe they just dont like football.

Lots of reasons.

We were never in the top league for long
(Proves their decision to them)
Never won a major trophy
Were never on tv
Arsenal were better
Even African fans prefer Chelsea with racist fans
Other economic migrants support for ‘glory’

They still don’t go there much or at all
Nothing material to show for it?
It’s a white thing?
Why would they want to start new trend?

Not in their culture.
By that I mean it used to originally be after Saturday morning working hours.
It then got fed down the generations.
Now it’s sanitised & welcome to all its expensive.
Not that expensive at Palace but it is relatively.
Nothing to show for it materially.

There might still be a view that their future might be difficult compared to young white boys/men at football so spending (wasting?) a fair sum of money might not be appealing. But Arsenal has and has lots of black fans for decades since the ‘80s.

I might be completely wrong but I think a lot of regular black people don’t go in for ‘experiences’ or spending or wasting money on them. I don’t know if this still happens but in the championship a group of young black youth players used to sell their complimentary tickets outside Sainsbury’s.

Tbh I don’t blame anybody for not going when I’m there watching a repeat of however many weeks before. I feel like I am the mug for going but you can’t beat being at the event. Watching on tv will never compete, but if you don’t know any different then it’s great.

I expect ‘brickbats’ in my direction from anyone waiting to be offended on behalf of others.

COYP

What’s a manufactured accent? Aren’t all accents manufactured at one point or another?

Yes, when there wasn’t an accent already there. American and Australian are the more recent examples that spring to mind. Or it’s the type of air that causes the mouth to work and exercise in a different way to sound differently.

Well this one was created by a few boys at the back of a classroom somewhere in London in the early ‘90s when there was already an accent in the area and it’s done them no favours. Hardly helping their employment prospects is it? Just creating more of a distance between them and whoever else they think is a great idea, but then it’s diffic to find employment that isn’t in places that this accent in usual. Fast food outlets and trainer shops.

COYP

Yes it has evolved in more recent times but certainly, there were White boys using Jamaican phrases and slipping into the occasional Jamaican accent, in a non mocking way, when I was at school in the '70s.

Jim Davidson doing Chalky?

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'