Can you imagine a football club appointing a manager who praised the King's Cross bombers?

[LeftishBrit]

2. If he defended Stalin's purges, or the bloodshed of Tiananmen Square, then I'm sure it would be.

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Fascism is so intrinsically associated with support for violence that it should not be given this sort of respectability!

Also: I'm as un-nationalist as you get, but given that lots of nationalism IS attached to football, is it really appropriate that a representative of an enemy organization should be the manager of a British football team? I am sure that there are a fair number of Sunderland supporters, whose grandfathers died fighting fascism. I have no problem with an Italian citizen being the manager - but an active fascist?

ETA: To emphasize again: this is not a problem with any other nation, but with violent ideologies. I also would not be happy with someone who expressed support for the Taliban, for example.