Leeds Fans Were Right to Boo the ‘Ramadan Fasting-Break’ in Their Football Match
The booing of opposition players during a live football game should not be a matter of much remark – except when such booing is deemed to be ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘racist’ in its nature. This week, we have reached Eid, the final day of Ramadan, the Muslim month of not eating your dinner, when the imported faithful all across Europe refuse to so much as take a sip of water during daylight hours. Resisting the temptation to sneakily lick a Creme Egg can be difficult, so DEI-compliant multinational corporations have been helpfully stepping up to try and put everybody off their food whether they like it or not. In Germany, branches of McDonald’s have begun removing all visible images of meals from their external electronic advertising boards between dawn and dusk, replacing them with hollow empty cartons; if they’d really wanted to encourage self-starvation, they would have left the burger photos up.
Over here in England, the Premier League decided to get in on the act by removing all visible images of sport taking place from its live television coverage instead, with the evening game between Leeds United and Manchester City on February 28th being temporarily halted in the 13th minute, this being the moment at which the sun had finally set, thereby allowing all the Muslim players to run over to the touchline for water-bottles and hummus-flavoured energy-bars. At this point, the home fans began loudly booing and chanting “What the fucking hell was that?”, a question to which the unspoken answer was “Your intended future”. The giant electronic screen in the stadium sprang into action as soon as the pre-planned pause took place, educationally informing scarf-waving dhimmis that play had been halted to allow players to break their fast, as that night’s match took place during “the holy period of Ramadan”.
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Not religion, theocracy.
Footballs to the mussies! I’ll eat what I want when I want!
When Religion trumps health & safety, in effect.
If you google ’17 characteristics of a cult’ John, you may feel it appropriate to substitute your second word.
Pandering to professional football Muslims can easily be organised without disrupting the match underway:
The booing was entirely justified.
Alternatively either don’t employ people who act this way as footballers or terminate their contracts if they do this. After all if they are insufficiently nourished then they are failing to be ready for the necessary level of exertion to justify their hugely inflated salaries.
I remember a footballer at Newcastle United in the 1950s, Alf McMichael, from Northern Ireland, who would not play on Good Friday. His principled decision was respected by the club. If breaking their fast is so important to Muslim players then why don’t they ask not to be picked?
In N Ireland they do not road race on a Sunday – and that includes the biggest sporting event on the whole island, the Northwest 200. We can learn much from them as before racing starts our National Anthem is played and it is stand up, hats off in the same way Americans are proud of theirs.
“I heard you want you country back, F off you cant have that!”
Was that Txxx just stating the obvious?
Airlines have banned their pilots fasting during Ramadan after it caused numerous plane crashes, including a Pakistani one so absurd the pilot landed without the landing gear extended, crushing both engines, then took off again and crashed into the city.
So the effect on footballers who are supposed to be at peak human fitness must be a joke.
The other players should avoid passing fasters the ball. I suspect that would rather concentrate the fasters’ minds.
Another example (the McDonalds advertising restriction) of Muslims’ inability to control their desires. Prevent uncontrollable male sexual assaults? Cover women to the point where they are not recognisable. Want to eat when your deranged political theocracy says you mustn’t? Cover all food up during daylight.
In some ways I would be interested to see what would happen during 24 hour polar daylight that lasts months. Starvation and death? Bring it on.
Guess where the muzzy scum do not go…..
Ok have a religion. But you are also a PROFESSIONAL footballer getting paid a big sums of money. Your Religion cannot simply trump your responsibilities as a football player. Your religion does not come before 10 other players in your team or 40,000 supporters in your stadium. Is it really asking too much that on the odd occasion your religious dogma interferes with your professional duties that you maybe just forget that on that day? —–
Clearly for that particular religion, it is more important than football, which I kind of respect… contractually however it seems a very odd setup with the western world altering its long standing traditions to appease
It is all about ramming islam down your throat the same as wearing hijabs and other comedy clothing so you can see what your future rulers look like.
Yes I’ve completely revised my viewpoint from when I posted previously that I didn’t see it as a big deal. I don’t watch footie so didn’t know this is something they’ve introduced only in recent years, and to accommodate only 55 Muslim players in the PL, where only a few will be playing at any one time!🤨 If they’ve managed fine prior to 2021 then why change the rules at all? It’s like a school going full Halal with their school dinners to accommodate a couple of Muslim kids. And this is with them only at 6.5% of the population!😬 Other religions should expect nothing more than a place to worship and that’s it. No religious slaughter ( of animals or Jihad 🙁 ), no removing bits from babies’ bodies in the name of religion/culture, no bastardization of the English language to accommodate your BS demands, no religious holidays being made into public holidays other than on the Christian calender, no outside praying in public places en masse on your flying carpets and no expectations that the host nation adapt to you and your entitled arses as it should always be the other way around. Any problems with that you… Read more »
Yep, we are governed by a political class of ESG ass licker’s that make Neville Chamberlain look like Mike Tyson.
I had a friend in prison who was in prison whose cell-mate insisted on observing the Moslem prayer hours. I suggested my friend should announce that he had become a Benedictine monk and intended to observe the appropriate service hours, and see how his cell-mate and the prison authorities dealt with that. I am sorry to say he did not try this.
Why is this totally coercive fasting done, where is such a commandment found? Are there no exemptions, eg heart surgeons at work?
Here we have the problem of when fairy tales crash like waves upon the rocky shores of reality. Muslims working above the Arctic circle or below the Antarctic circle are given religious dispensation to eat and drink, based I believe on sunrise and sunset in Mecca. The question is, of course, who imposed this peculiarity of fasting and why? Presumably, desert arabs muddled along just fine before the prophet, or some later interpreter of the prophet decreed this behaviour. Middle Eastern religions tend to avoid certain foods because in the early years of their beliefs, those foods had a greater tendency to rot and make people ill if poorly prepared. Of course, Christianity is not immune to religious doctrine not adapting to the needs of sports entertainment, with notable examples of devout Christians refusing to compete on Sundays, which always struck me as odd, because there were F1 races taking place on Easter Sunday in the Catholic heartland Italy.
Well, well, who would have thought it, apparently you can skip the fasting by paying a fine to an approved Muslim charity. So, just like the scams of the early Christian church, where a decent bribe to a local bishop or cardinal got your sin forgiven, the same applies to this required strict faithful adherence. Are football clubs not rich enough to pay the Fidyah?
I think the Sunday observances thing was more down to extreme Presbyterianism, Eric Liddell in the 1924 Olympics being a well known example.
I know we’re supposed to be impressed by such acts of faith, but I really don’t feel that it achieved much in the great scheme of the universe.
the prophet? Do you mean the paedophile gangster?
Did this warrior prophet exist? See the heavily evidenced book by American scholar Robert Spencer ‘Did Mohammed Exist?’ and the lack of any historical evidence for it. Also Tom Holland’s Ch 4 documentary 2012 Islam: the untold story
which argues that Arab conquests required some divine justification so a warrior prophet was brought into existence for that purpose, hence the lack of contemporary coins, statues or inscriptions. Ofcom upheld Holland’s programme despite Muslim complaints. A second showing was pulled after death threats – the sword is mightier than the pen, debate about evidence cannot be allowed.
Jesus testing of false prophets relates to the fruits they bring forth, Matthew 7. 15-20
Rangers and Celtic. Why religion has no place in football.
I live in Scotland and have never wanted anything other than both these football teams to lose. I support anyone who beats them. —–The mentality here is summed up when a stranger one day asked me “Are you a Rangers man or a Celtic man”? —–I replied “East Fife”, and he said “Ah, but are you East Fife Rangers or East Fife Celtic”?
Come on Hearts!
If Leeds had a Muslim playing for them they wouldn’t have booed.
All the fans of clubs with Muslim players agree with the break because they want their Muslim players to be on top form and not to harm themselves due to a lack of nourishment.
Fasting is a “lack of nourishment” mate. They will have played half of the game they are getting paid big bucks for undernourished.
If they insist on playing without sustenance then in my view they deserve to collapse and be stretchered off.
Or be sacked for failing to meet the requirements of their contracts.
As a species we really need to get rid of this ancient superstition-ridden nonsense.
Garbage; I am a Leeds fan and I would have booed myself hoarse if a Leeds player bunked off to take part in some unnecessary idiotic religious ritual.
And you are why Leeds fans are despised.
LOad of bollocks, they would still have BOOED
It’s a pity more people don’t start booing when Muslims flout ther culture and superiority in other areas.
Performative sectarian nonsense; it is hardly fasting anyway, all they do is skip lunch.
I think I will stop reading the daily sceptic today. One article was enough. Windmills, Gail’s bakery, breaking fast during Ramadan, and warm beer are of little relevance and the kind of nonsense repeated often enough, makes me realise why britain is in such poor health physically and economically.
Those things are just a hairline crack in the dam, no need to worry, the rest of it looks fine.
Never mind, stick to reading the Guardian!
Its simple, dont play, dont get paid, fans were not happy and damn sure wont forget , certainly pushing for muslim takeover and it needs to stop. NOW.
Muslims,are clearly extracting the urine. And the gormless football authorities tick another unimportant box 🙄
Any chance that the Premier League will stop matches to respect the Christians fasting in Lent?
Remember Black Lives Matter.
So it’s not discriminatory to foist a forreign religious practice onto English football supporters? This is total discrimination. Did the German manager arrange pancakes the start of Lent? Britain is now a secular country, why this nauseating appeaasing of a particular religion all of a sudden. Carry on Booing please.
I know football can seem like a religion to some, but the best solution would be for fans to vote with their wallets and boycott teams that think that observing an alien religion is more important than doing what they are paid for.
I am so fed-up with all this crap. Keep your beliefs to yourself, I am not interested and I am sure you are not interested in my creed, other than to crush it and rid the world of infidels.
Play football or piss off.
We were playing a game against a team from S London on Friday but because it is the celebration of IED, it has been cancelled.