Tommy Smith

[Darth Marty]

You mean the reports of him being a racist scumbag?

Things change fella, attitudes and laws and lots of other things. Why judge a man from a different era on todays standards?

[leftpeg]

RIP, Tommy.

[Tatterdemalion]

Was just looking for a Tommy thread and couldn't find one.
So just started one in Off field
Please merge /delete mine or whatever mods

Thanks very much Tommy. RIP.

[Slinky Skills]

Poor bugger, my dad said he was hard as nails.

[shanks69]

R.i.p a true anfield legend

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[Tee]

Sad news, RIP a true legend. YNWA

[Buzzo]

74’s not that old in this day and age.

Just read he had dementia... Football has a responsibility to all its dementia sufferers

[baitman]

I remember watching Tommy Smith, a great player who oozed menace and took no prisoners.
With players of his quality and never say die attitude we were a true machine.

Never forgotten

[Fosterbloke]

Wasn't he a bit racist too?

[BobTheCharmer]

Wasn't he a bit racist too?

Not the time for that imo. He's a legend. Rip.

[Venton]

Wasn't he a bit racist too?

Unfortunately yes. Never meet your heroes and all that...

[dizzycat]

Rip Tommy.

[Zapater]

Not the time for that imo. He's a legend. Rip.

"[Gayle] suffered from a black man's attitude towards the white man. See, everybody thinks whites have an attitude towards blacks. In reality it's blacks who have a problem with the whites... I used to call Howard the 'White ******'. Now that is a compliment. It was the only way I could find to describe that I thought he was OK." Smith then went on to comment to Hill that "I'm not prejudiced but if a coon moved in next door, I'd move, like most white people would. If my daughter came home with a ******, I'd go mad. But I'm only being truthful and normal."

Regardless of which time, if you deem that to be acceptable, it's quite a reflection on and your beliefs.

[Patricks_Berger]

It’s not the time and the place to conduct an enquiry into his morality. Try and see the best the best in people rather than dredge up **** from the 30 years ago.

[Rigadon]

"[Gayle] suffered from a black man's attitude towards the white man. See, everybody thinks whites have an attitude towards blacks. In reality it's blacks who have a problem with the whites... I used to call Howard the 'White ******'. Now that is a compliment. It was the only way I could find to describe that I thought he was OK." Smith then went on to comment to Hill that "I'm not prejudiced but if a coon moved in next door, I'd move, like most white people would. If my daughter came home with a ******, I'd go mad. But I'm only being truthful and normal."

Regardless of which time, if you deem that to be acceptable, it's quite a reflection on and your beliefs.

Smith was undoubtably a great player for Liverpool, but I can't see past the above, and I certainly don't buy into this 'different era' ****. Racism should be condemned irrespective of who said it and when.