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Memorial vandalised

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Jayteebee, Mar 25, 2025.

  1. Jayteebee

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    The memorial outside Valley Parade has been vandalised overnight by some moron(s).
    A shopping trolley has been rammed into the marble frontage smashing it and the metal cappings have been broken off.
    All the memorial things have been scattered about.
    I was chatting to the chap who is repairing it all, and astonishingly he showed me what had been written into the concrete underneath the marble edging, obviously done by the builder when the monument was erected.
    It reads SUPER LEEDS UNITED, I kid you not.
     
  2. Idlebantam

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    There are some seriously sick people about, and I include the builder if true
     
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  3. Onside

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    OMG, that is awful. Damaging the memorial and the concrete if this is correct.
     
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  4. Kop View

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    Surely they’ll be some CCTV? Catch the scum who did that.
     
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  5. Onside

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    Likewise we must have records of who the builders were?
     
  6. JudgeMental

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    Our lovely peace loving friendly locals no doubt.
    Top lads.
     
  7. Jonathan Swift

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    Absolute pondlife, and thats an insult to pondlife
     
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  8. bantam65

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    If anyone is raising money for repairs... I've £50 towards it. Just let me know.
     
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  9. Bantamsteve

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    Indicative of the sad sick society we live in
    Was at a local cemetery on Sunday the number of damaged graves is testament to that
    Flowers and trinkets have also been stolen from the grave I visited
    Hopefully CCTV will have picked up images and as for the original builder I have no words
     
  10. Sergio Pinto III

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    40 years ago. Hopefully dead by now.
     
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  11. Edin Nowhere

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    I don't think the marble memorial is that old. I think that dates back to the expansion of the main stand in the early 2000s.
     
  12. Jordan

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    Shockingly disgusting behaviour, if true.
     
  13. andyc

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    i visit the memorial before every game and spend a moment
    If this is true and they catch the pondlife that did it , the punishment should be to be locked in a room for the duration of our games for the next 5 years and made to watch the footage of the day.
    failing that , give me 10 minutes in that room to re educate them
     
  14. Kevin1954

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    Lesson learned.

    When it’s reinstated it should be faced with high security glass. Sledgehammer proof!
     
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  15. Jonathan Swift

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    Yes the fookers need a right good hiding
     
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  16. andyc

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    Fans from other sporting clubs often put scarves and messages there and as i said i visit every game and spend a brief moment and often like to just give a loving touch.
    we should not have to screen it off, maybe the answer, is to lock the gate into the car park and gate the steps at the other end
     
  17. andyc

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    Be careful , you have to choose your words wisely, the thought police will be on to you.
    Re educate is hard to define, but we all know what i meant
     
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  18. Kevin1954

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    A glass facia a few mm in front of the marble , it’s not beyond the wit of man…. Used in banks , railway stations etc. A sledgehammer just bounces off!
     
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  19. Jordan

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    Surely this isn't true? By this time of day, I can't imagine in today's day and age that nobody today would have walked passed a destroyed memorial and not taken a picture and put it online? Surely if true, it would be massive public knowledge by now and the club would have put some sort of statement out? Asking for local business help or something along those lines?

    There's nomention of this anywhere else apart from this forum.
     
  20. bantamdave41

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    Has this been verified independently.

    If true, a disgrace of the pure act of vandalism but the Leeds thing makes no sense, how could you plausibly observe this sketching.
     
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