A Golly Wog being sold on Phillip's web-site
A row is brewing between a Powys-based seller of racist novelty goods and the Premier League over the use of club insignia and colours for racist memorabilia.
Patriot Products, run by BNP supporter Roger Phillips, sells a range of “official” merchandise alongside BNP badges, “Enoch Powell was right” paraphernalia and golly-wogs wearing the colours of clubs like Manchester United, Portsmouth and Wolves.
Patriot Products was launched at this years BNP Red, White and Blue rally.
The site is managed by the Green Arrow, an anti-Semitic, anti-Moslem blog run by Paul Morris, a BNP activist and conspiracy theorist.
The Premier League, Liverpool FC, Chelsea FC, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur FC have Nothing British’s dossier and are considering their options.
The legal costs of a battle with this irritating little site may seem disproportionately large. However, the football industry has invested so much to rid itself of assocations with racism that any complacency could be very costly in the long term.
Tags: Green Arrow, Paul Morris, racism
I don’t think the mechandise directly infringes their copyrights, both red & blue are widely used by a lot of people, so I can’t see what they can do.
I haven’t seen anything that uses a particular club name either but if you know better I am sure you will provide the evidence?
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Dear Essex Man,
Please see the link below:
http://www.thebritishpatriot.co.uk/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=13&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53&vmcchk=1&Itemid=53
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OK thanks for that info, Maurice.
But I think a lot of that doesn’t quite infringe copyright, though Bill Shankley’s family might be able to object to his image being used.
So they may pull a couple of lines & would probably carry on much as usual.
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No worries. You make a good point and will look into it. Thanks for using the site. Maurice
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Sam been in yet?
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i ll bet gary got one in his team colours eh gazza mate!
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every decent minded football fan wont by this crap,and many many of the premierships players are coloured and have brought the english teams up to the top level in europe
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Well done roger, hope this brings some sales your way.
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roger the todger hope your pathetic venture fails football against racism
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David James,Ashley Cole,Micah Richards,Jolene Lescott,Glen Johnson,Shaun Wright phillips,Theo Walcott,Aaron Lennon,Jermaine Jenas,Emile Heskey,Gabriel Agbonlahor… Danny Wellbeck.Shola Ameobi..Ledley King..Ashley Young..Darren Bent. Jermaine Defoe..Nigel Reo Cocker..Rio Ferdinand..Wes Brown..Kieron Richardson..Titus Bramble..my 22 ENGLISH players For South Africa 2010
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Football over Fascism
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Sam Pauli is a fascist racist as he has only named BLACK footballers in his choice of a football team. If he wants inclusion of all he should practice what he preaches! He should have picked a team of all colours. RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS!! Its stupid inflammetory statements like that that fan the flames of hate. IS HE A WHITE HATER?….
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aye andy pandy,now go away pollys got the kettle on
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to be honest with you andy pandy,i dont give a shit what players play for ingerlund i couldnt care if 11 martians played for them……as long as they get pumped.
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andypandy ya thick fecker ,my whole point in picking those players was,if the british nazi party get in to power(pmsl)Ingerlund wont,do you hear me WONT be able to select these players,and do you think Mr Capello will hang about ,so then youd have to find a successful white englishman to take the reigns,now youll struggle to fill that position.Who was the last english manager to win the premiership?oops thats right theres never been one.
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Golliwog (not Golly Wog, as you’ve written it) football badges have been on sale for decades, and before that Golliwog badges were sold on the back of British jam jars. So what’s racist, or not British about them? Is Carol Thatcher a racist? I don’t think so, but you people obviously do.
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I used to collect the Robertson’s Golly badges as a kid & bought a similar one as pictured above, I think the quality of these is a bit better than the old ones!
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I wonder where they are made though?
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proably pakistan ,with child labour,which makes it aa bit ironic dosent it?
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Funny enough there are no makers marks at all…….
When I went to Egypt I saw child labour being used to carve tourist nick nacks.
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if the bnp get into power and we go back to dickensian,victorian way of life,we ll be sending weans up chimneys again
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Forward to the past eh?
Some attraction there, but child labour no.
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oh yes lets go forward to the past,no nhs,ricketts ,tb,scabies that ll teach all those working classes ,put them back in their rightful place…then they ll have no choice but to be cannon fodder in the wars fought for the rich..dont you just miss that way of life?
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Ummmm, no!
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why no,it was simpler times the poor knew where they belonged,we had an empire,when we controlled the half the world,we only had two political parties,Queen Vic sent £2,000 pounds to the dog and cat home in Dublin during the Famine,no global warming,no asian immigration,aussies grandpa was still stealing loaves in Essex rather in Sydney,ohh the good old days
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You sound like you lived it & enjoyed it?
But no thanks to that, I’ll settle for going back 40 or 50 years.
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