There were plenty of knuckledraggers who used it for differing reasons though,
and not just to encourage the team/raise the volume/intensity. I like it now,
but in the past it was intimidating in a very different way.
Sent from my iPad
> On 25 Jan 2018, at 08:53, {broken-address} Richard Walker
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just don't get all this Nazi salute shite from some Leeds fans. If you're
> Leeds then you know what the salute is all about and know what it means.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 24 Jan 2018, at 23:04, {broken-address}
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> John Barber - I’ve been trying to remember when this first came in -
>> certainly in the 70s there were plenty of knuckle-draggers sieg-heiling
>> along with those doing the Leeds Leeds Leeds thing. Whilst I think the
>> action has now been ‘reclaimed’, mainly because many of the old die-hards
>> have moved in, I’ve seen some right-wing Italian groups do a similar salute.
>> It’s one thing having an on the day rabble rousing fist pump at corners,
>> quite another having a badge which looks like some pumped up 1930 Ruskie
>> steel worker.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 24 Jan 2018, at 19:51, Matt Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks like the sort of thing I might have bought on a t shirt outside the
>>> ground when I was 19 but the badge should have a bit more class like the
>>> 1992 championship winning one
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On 24 Jan 2018, at 18:18, Jim Moran <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The bloke's explaining it away on Radio Leeds now. He's talking bollocks.
>>>> "The salue is something the fans said Leeds United owned". WRONG. The fans
>>>> own the salute, they're saluting the badge. How can the badge be a fan
>>>> saluting the badge?? Makes no sense.
>>>>
>>>> It'll never see the light of day.
>>>>
>>>> And it's killed off the salute for many fans too.
>>>>
>>>> No-one does a farce quite like Leeds United
>>>>
>>>>> On 24 January 2018 at 17:15, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Lurkdom mode - OFF.
>>>>>
>>>>> Once we abandoned the City of Leeds badge, sometime in the 1960's I think,
>>>>> we then seemed to change our badge every other year.
>>>>> It wasn't until the "rose and ball" one - the one we won the 1992
>>>>> Championship with - that we settled down to some season after season
>>>>> continuity.
>>>>> It lasted a good few seasons, long enough, I thought, to establish itself
>>>>> as our "new" traditional badge. I'd love for that one to return.
>>>>> I never took to Ridsdale's living the (European) dream replacement.
>>>>>
>>>>> The current proposal? Supposedly it's for our 100th anniversary.
>>>>> I could buy into it, if it was only for the one season, and perhaps if the
>>>>> hand on the chest was a hand over our traditional badge... whatever that
>>>>> is.
>>>>> If it mobilises support and enthusiasm and helps us get back to the top
>>>>> level in time for our 100th year, then maybe we should endorse it. Doesn't
>>>>> sound as if it will though.
>>>>> Celebrating the Leeds salute? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have the
>>>>> uncomfortable feeling that it started appearing when the NF were trying to
>>>>> take over our terraces at the end of the 1970s
>>>>> So for me it's bit too close to a Nazi salute to be totally at ease with
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Finally, a question on the 100th anniversary that I've been meaning to
>>>>> ask.
>>>>> Didn't Ken Bates' shenanigans kill off the 1919 club?
>>>>> Isn't the club we're supporting now some new creation of his, barely 10
>>>>> years old?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards everyone
>>>>>
>>>>> John
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Richard Walker [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Sent: 24 January 2018 15:59
>>>>> To: Richard Naef <[email protected]>; errand. fivefold <
>>>>> [email protected]>; Ted <[email protected]>; Graham Farr <
>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: Leeds List ([email protected]) <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [LU] another new crest / badge
>>>>>
>>>>> Quite like it mysen. Leeds salute is part of our history. I remember being
>>>>> in many away end when someone spots someone in the home end doing a secret
>>>>> Leeds salute. Minute later it kicks off.
>>>>> Huddersfield was the classic. Their whole stand emptied.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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