The kick racism out of football campaign claimed its first victim yesterday as Liverpool's stalwart Groundsman of 32 years Billy Racism got his marching orders from his beloved Anfield.
At first the reason seemed unclear, it was thought poor lawn mowing skills may have been a contributing factor, or maybe because he accidentally placed a curse on the club in 1989!?.
Then rumours starting spreading round the club that it was the Hapless Texan owners Tom Hicks (pictured above) and George Gillet who had ordered the dismissal due to an article Hicks had read and got the wrong end of the stick of in his weekly copy of MATCH magazine. We spoke with Hicks on the phone....'Howdy partner, so you wanna know about the Racism sacking do'yall, ok, well I Tom Hicks do declare that I take the things that MATCH magazine said he'd (Billy Racism) been doing as very serious!, apparently he's been abusing players racially for years and he'd been making it difficult for black people to get work in the game! He had to go....now I'll speak to y'all later cowboy!'.
Racism (not the person) has been in the game for almost as long as Racism (the person). It started in 1981 when Frank Stapleton (Irish) called Mark Lawrenson (half Irish) 'an English dildo' after an on field fall out. One listener in the crowd that day was the larger than most life's Ron Atkinson, who on hearing people abuse each other because of where they came from or what they looked like thought it was ok to do so.
Racism (Billy) has already been approached by other clubs to cut their grass, but he going to take a break from the game, he said 'I feel persecuted because of my name, with a name like mine its a struggle, every day you get abuse thrown at you......i just want people to know you shouldn't pick on people because of colour, religion or names' Racism added
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