Horrendous fan-filmed footage has emerged which shows a portion of Man City supporters singing extremely anti-Semitic chants ahead of their team's Premier League clash with Spurs.
One appalled City fan, Anthony Fallon, recorded a mob of Blues signing "Gassed in the morning, you're getting gassed in the morning" on a train approaching the Etihad Stadium.
He told the Manchester Evening News:
I’m not sure if there were Tottenham fans on the tram or if it was just City fans trying to cause a melee between themselves or a raucous atmosphere, but they started saying ‘come on you Spurs’.
The City fans next to me, two men in their 50s, then started chanting ‘You’re getting gassed in the morning’.
In the footage below, a group of older men are heard chanting. One is heard telling Anthony: “Ay mate, don’t be fucking filming everybody. I’m fucking camera shy me, do you know what I mean?"
“You need permission to film in public. It’s a fact so don’t do it.”
Many Tottenham fans maintain a Jewish identity; similar to Ajax, the north London club was popular among Jewish immigrants who settled in the East End of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Other northern London districts, such as Barnet, Hackney and Harrow, have traditionally been home to many Jewish families, which have contributed to Spurs' Jewish identity.
Having suffered horrible anti-Semitic abuse in the 1970s and 1980s, Spurs fans decided to take the insults and make them their own. And thus, Tottenham's 'Yid Army' chant was born.
Despite being warned in September 2013 that use of the term 'Yid' could result in criminal prosecution or a stadium ban, Spurs supporters continue to sing it to this day - an act of defiance against anti-Semitism from opposing fans.
Anthony, the fan who recorded the City fans' slurs, told the MEN:
It was like being back in the 1980s. I went to a game in Leeds in 1983 where fans were throwing banana peels at a black player. This was like a throwback to the 1980s.
I haven’t heard anything like that, certainly not in the last decade. I was completely taken aback.
They need to be identified. This was not just borderline racism, it was bile and hatred.
A spokesman for Manchester City said: "Manchester City strongly condemns the use of any anti-Semitic language and we are co-operating with the investigation into this matter."
Fair play to Anthony for taking no shit and reporting it accordingly.
