No one likes us…

The Preston North End striker, Nathan Ellington, who is black, has complained about the abuse he received while playing, briefly, for his club against Millwall on Saturday. On that medium for the half-witted and forlorn, Twitter, he said the Millwall crowd were “a disgrace to the human race,” and added: “Monkey noises and Calling (sic) me a theif (sic). All players abused.”

I was at the game and heard no racist abuse whatsoever — and I was there when Ellington was warming up. No complaints were made to Millwall FC, or the police. Further, not a single Preston North End fan — either those excellent few present at the game or who watched it on TV — have offered supporting evidence that Ellington was subjected to those monkey chants, on their various messageboards. Not one. Nor was there a complaint from the club. Certainly Ellington was jeered whilst playing, but this was because he was utterly bloody useless, not because of the colour of his skin. Millwall, incidentally, had more black players in their line-up than did Preston. But Ellington’s whining has attracted the interest of the ever-vigilant anti-racist press, and so I suppose we will cop it, somehow.

It reminds me a little of when The Sun sent an idiotic black journalist called Raymond Enisuoh to do a hatchet job on the racist thugs of Millwall. Attending the game against Brighton, Enisuoh professed to be shocked and appalled by sections of the crowd shouting, at regular intervals, “Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!” Cue big headlines in The Sun. Later, the witless Enisuoh was forced to apologise when it was revealed that these ghastly chants came from Brighton’s section of the ground and that what they were actually singing was “Seagulls! Seagulls!” (their club’s slightly effete nickname).

Ellington has scored two goals in seventeen games for Preston. A career which was once so promising is now washed up. As one Preston fan put it on their fans’ forum, referencing the Let’s Kick Racism Out of Football campaign:

“I’m going to start a ‘Let’s kick players pretending to be professional and claiming big wages out of football’ campaign.”