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Leeds United issue statement on Solomon chant
Yorkshire Evening Post
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14/02/2025
Leeds United issue statement on Solomon chant
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There is a statement going out from Leeds United this afternoon.
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It relates to the Manor Solomon chant, which I'm sure many of you will have heard.
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Leeds have issued a statement which reads, Leeds United again condemn the football chant
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containing an anti-Palestine lyric aimed at Manor Solomon, having already done so through
00:24
comments to local and national media outlets in December.
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Hate crime and discriminatory language or chanting is not acceptable at Leeds United
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and the club has a zero-tolerance policy towards discrimination abuse of all kinds.
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The club has received a large number of complaints from Leeds United supporters regarding the
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chant and had hoped the initial strategy of condemning it through the media and working
00:45
with supporter groups would prevent this from happening in the future, but it has sadly
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become more prominent in recent matches, including at Elland Road.
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After monitoring the situation at recent home games, the origins of the chant at Elland
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Road appear to come from the Norman Hunter South stand, particularly in blocks FA5, FA6,
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SS5, SS6.
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And the statement goes on to say if you do hear discriminatory language being used at
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games to use the text service for the matchday incident text service to report those incidents.
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I think there's been an awful lot of complaints from various sections of the fan base about
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this chant in particular.
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Leeds United have felt it appropriate to take this action and to say that they will ban
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fans who are singing it.
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You might get the odd person who says, well, what about the Jimmy Savile chants?
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And you know what, that is something that needs to be addressed and Leeds behind the
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scenes are lobbying for that to be classified as a tragedy chant, which it always, always
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should have been.
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I think the sooner the action is taken on that, the better as well.
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You don't want to hear any of those things sung at football games.
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You don't want to have people having to explain to young children what certain chants are
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about when the subject matter is so horrific.
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And the sooner that Elland Road doesn't hear the Solomon chant or the Savile chant, the
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better.
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I think we can all agree that it's just, it's just in bad taste, just poor taste.
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And it's not needed.
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People get very precious about their chants and they talk about censorship or free speech
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or taking banter out of football.
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There are a million and one things that you can sing at a football game and that Leeds
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fans do sing that are funny and sometimes a bit spiteful and they don't make light of
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a horrific situation.
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