Comment Re:Depends on what they said (Score 1) 598
A Tottenham Hotspur fan will use the term "Yid" as a "reclaim the word in an empowering manner" way. I.e., they can use it, nobody else can. The FA should recognise this in their guidelines. Yes, a lot of Tottenham fans aren't Jewish, and I'm sure some of them don't even know what the term really means. But they are not using it in a negative, insulting or defamatory manner. I appreciate that in a different country, the term could be seen as a far worse word.
The fans arrested in this story were opposition fans, mentioning Auschwitz, etc. Straightforward racial hatred.