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Albion’s message to Moscow fans on Peter Odemwingie
Friday 10th September 2010, 11:30AM BST.
Albion fans have designed a banner to answer the racist send-off for Peter Odemwingie at Lokomotiv Moscow.
When news broke the Nigerian forward had signed for the Baggies, photographs at the Muscovite club showed fans bearing a banner with the image of a banana and the sarcastic message ‘Thanks West Brom’.
The insult triggered a clamour from fans on message boards to organise a suitable response.
Die-hard Baggies across the globe weighed in with ideas how to hit back at the racism.
After collaborating, this is the banner Australian graphic designer Phil Turbutt came up with.
The giant banner reads ‘Thanks Lokomotiv’ with the image of Odemwingie scoring his debut goal.
Fans will display the banner tomorrow during Odemwingie’s second Hawthorns appearance against Tottenham.
Baggies fans have raised the money themselves to pay for the banner which has cost more than £750.
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Fair play, thats a good shout.
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From a Wolves fan….. Well done baggies.
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Well done Baggies, a very good idea, no place for that.
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Locomotiv fans,
Have you got anymore like him we can have, PLEASE.
~~~~BOING ~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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THANKS, you wolves.
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Just proves we are amongst the best fans in the world :)
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I couldn`t really see VILLA,BLUES,or WOLVES
creating an Idea like this as they wouldn`t
have the brains to carry it off,this gesture
just confirms to me that Westbromwich Albion
fans are the greatest in the land.
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Great idea gets my vote. Thanks also to our Wulfie neighbours its one thing we agree on.
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I like it. Fair play. This need to be knocked out of football.
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1,2 & 3
Gentlemen, it`s something like this despicable episode that brings our squables into perspective.
One can only imagine that the perpetrators of such acts are at best ill educated.
Cheers.
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DLB
For gods sake, give it a rest !!
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Well done to all involved.Good to see our neighbours giving us a pat on the back, i wouldnt expect anything else from you guys on this one
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top stuff baggies!
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Fair play… nice one
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Respect where it’s due…
Doubt all this will affect the 2018 bids though, Blatter and his mob are brainless..
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Wbaforever
Oh!Kook off!!
You sound like me mom and Dad!!.
Ive said something nice about the Albion
faithfull so what more do you want,if you dont
hate VILLA,BLUES,or WOLVES then in my book
I dont class you as a proper Albion fan.
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Im sure the locomotiv fans will be bothered by that its not gonna change there oppinion on him as a footballer or a person. Just let him do the business and forget about it.
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Well done Baggies there is no place for this in football or any walk of life.
7 DLB…totally uneccessary you numpty.
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7 – You can see lots of posts on here already from rival fans in support of this, so please grow up DLB!
Well done to everyone involved, it’s a great idea. No place for racism in society, not just football.
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lets pass it on to fifa after
it will be an injustice if the likes of russia
beat england to host the world cup 2018
theres still a huge problem there so why give them something they dont deserve
boing boing !!!
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Nice gesture baggies ! No place for that rubbish in football anymore. But £750 for a banner ? Thats about 50p for every person in the hawthorns on a matchday. ( not inc away fans obviously ) Well done anyway.
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7…….and unfortunately my friend you ain’t one of ‘em !! You seem to sum up the nasty side of the Baggies fans. Listen to some of your peers like RBH, Sir Cyril Randle, Bomber and Happy (wherever you are my old mate) and any of the more sensible posters above. Friendly banter on both sides is welcome..banal insults for the sake of it isn’t and that goes for Wolves fans as well. I along with many other Wolves and Baggies fans agree there is no place in sport for racism.
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Sorry Nedball, forgot to include you in the sensible list !! WHile I’m at it, apologies to any others I haven’t named as well !!
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16 DORRANSLOVESBROM
I have never understood the notion of HATE in Football , indeed surely the point of the Odemwingie poster is to counter HATE.
Think about it .
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Good on you Baggies for this (especially for forking out the money to put it together) – sends out a clear message to the numbskulls that racism won’t be tolerated. Hurts me to say it but Odemwingie has joined a good club!
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looks like the banner has had to be sent back to manufacturers…im a member of the group on facebook which is backing this and they have recieved the banner and its been made completely wrong (you should see the pics)
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Credit where it is due to the Wulfies.
DLB – when you have grown up and left school you dont have to hate everyone to be a Baggie. I take it you have school mates who may support Wolves, Villa and Blues and you dont hate them.
Get a life.
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16 you sound like me mom and dad ? that explains a lot immature
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I saw the story in the paper a couple of weeks ago and was pretty disgusted. The Russian FA didn’t even condone it….worrying with their World Cup bid going on.
Respect to the Albion fans for the response.
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Well played baggies – looking forward to seeing the banner on Sky tomorrow night.
DLB – i know your only seven years old but get a grip you loser
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DLB-Doubt you will even see the banner, it’s not kids for a quid against Spurs…..now go do your homework….
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Top Team,Top Supporters !!
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Things like this make me proud to be a west brom fan.
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7 & 16…..you’re not BobWolf in disguise by any chance are you ?
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Well done to everyone involved with the banner good to see decent banter from the decent set of fans of both clubs and hope you get lots of publicity around the world.
Nongnut36
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21 Lonewolf.
Perhaps all the season ticket holders you’ve lost could help us out from the money they’ve saved. Should work out to less than 50p each.
Seriously though, it’s good to see so many Wulfies on here can forget local rivalries when something more important rears it’s ugly head. And I don’t mean DLB.
PS Well done Filton. No foul and abusive language. Those Tourettes pills must be working.
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REGIS STOOD UP TO THIS IN THE 70S SO DID LAURIE AND BRENDON 30 YEARS OR SO ON WE STILL GOT SOME MINDLESS PEOPLE WELL DONE ALBION FANS WHO CARRY ON TO KICK THIS RUBBISH OUT MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE A FOOTBALL FAN OF ANY CLUB WHEN FANS TRUE FANS REALY DO EXIST AND CARE 100 %
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nice positive comments from all but one plank.DLB YOU are the plank.
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i hope the banner problem is sorted.
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Well done baggies, lets hope he scores a hat trick tomorrow.
Black Country Exile In Moscow
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With pig ignorant fans like that, is it any wonder he wanted to move.
Well done to the Albion fans behind this, you should be really proud of what you’ve done.
Shame you have to put up with the likes of DLB, but then I suppose every club has its share of uneducated, brainless muppets.
In Mick we Trust!!
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remember the three degrees, say no mmore.
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Filtonwolf,
Apology accepted.
~~~~BOING~~~~BOING~~~~JtH.
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Well done Baggies. 33 sums it up, I’m also proud to be a Baggie. Well done Wulfies. 1st three posts shows that behind all the banter the West Midlands are full of salt of the earth types.
DLB time and a place, this isn’t it mate. But I’m not sure he should be publicly stoned lads.
As for the World Cup bid, surely this is as much of a clincher as anything else. Glad to see the Albion playing a big part in what I’m sure will be a successfull bid.
Boing Boing.
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16 DLB no room in sport for this crap and no room for crap like you DLB.
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Fair play baggies, and this is from a 16 year old, i don;t hate all albion fans i just hate the big ‘uns like DLB, giving it the big un.
Good to see this, but i doubt it will affect our worl cup bid, and good to see albion fans defending us, fair play albion, good gesture!
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Just wanted to echo a lot of fellow Wolves fans sentiments. This is a top idea and I hope it gets the publicity it deserves. Well done.
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Thanks Lokomotiv!!!
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DLB
I am going to use my time explaining the funamentals of decency to you.
In short you are an odious little twerp.
Wolves fans, without exception, have come on here and been magnamanous in their support of this particular nasty little episode, but you in your poisoned little mind cannot recipriocate.
If any Wolfie comes on here and bad mouth`s my team i will volley back, but this is not one of those occasions.
And furthermore to suggest i am not a proper Albion if i dont hate Wolves, Blues and Villa, is almost too prepostuerous for words.
If all that is going around in your tiny brain is hate, then i pity you.
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Absolutely no place for racism in football. It’s Locomotive’s loss and our gain and fair play to the Wolves fans for their comments.
Grow up DLB, even Laughing Wolf has has supported us on this one, that should tell you something!
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Well done my friends,maybe Pete will be inspired to bang one in against Spurs
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Spot on lads absolute class.
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No place for this in sport but it seems most of the East europeans eg.Serbia have this neo nazi elemnt that UEFA/FIFA ignore. I am a Wulfrunian by the way and DLB is proof that you should not be able to marry your own cousin.
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Hi Filton 22 – thanks for the inclusion…. i am still reading the posts, i just don’t bother to post as often.
DLB – it seems its ok to hate as long as we hate the people you hate !!! I’m sure the Locomotiv fans usedthe same excuse as you for their view point.
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No.36, RBW. Nice retort pal. Them season ticket prices are well pricy at our place. Im one that aint reneiwed this season, and i got me own buissness and dont av to worry about the next leccy bill if you no what i meen. I normly buy one each 4 me an the missus and me mate who cant work at the minute. But if no one ever makes a stand on ever increasing prices it will push us all away.Just pick me games now.
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DlB,
Look, I love the banter and take the mick, but
hate never comes into it,O.K. So as far as you’re concerned I’m not a baggy, I can stand that as long as everyone else knows I am.
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lonely wolf,
Join DLB on the naughty step.
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