What different reasons ?
> On 25 Jan 2018, at 09:01, {broken-address}
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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