‘They can arrest us, but we won’t stop saying it’
Exclusive video report: Spurs fans speak up for their right to use the word Yid.

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Officialdom, the footballing authorities and a ragbag of middle-class footie fans have declared war on Tottenham Hotspur fans’ use of the word Yid as a badge of pride. We’ve heard what the great and the good think of the Y-word and whether it should be used – but what do Spurs fans, the Yid Army itself, think? spiked went to White Hart Lane and asked them. Watch our Yiddo video below.
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