No doubt Manchester United manager has bigger things to worry about than one of the clubs scouts caught making racist comments after the clubs performance against Southampton at Old Trafford, yet once these kinds of things come out the often prove hard to put back into the box.
The Guardian newspaper caught one of United’s European scouts Torben Aakjaer making racist comments on Facebook and immediately suspended him.
Aakjaer described a Mosque as being “conspiracy-potential prayer-shop” and wants Denmark to close its borders and put “extra personnel on every crossover and exit so all that Eastern Europe dirt and sh** can be kept out.”
Aakjaer has been on United’s payroll since 2011, after having previously been with Hamburg and is often seen around United’s training ground.
His FB account contains other derogatory comments regarding Eastern Europeans, while also showing support for Denmark’s right-wing Dansk Folkeparti’s views about border control and a photograph of six pigs with a caption: “It’s time to deploy our secret weapons against Islamists.”
In a reply to a post Aakjaer writes: “You must be too integrated in the red Copenhagen mafia if you don’t think all that Eastern Europe dirt and sh** needs a kick in the behind over the border. Yes, in cases like this I do generalise. This is not a hard-working Polish guy on a building site or a Czech taxi driver. This is hardcore gypsies from Romania, Bulgaria etc. And here no mercy should be shown. I don’t approve of violence but a glass of water hurts nobody.”
This was referring to a beggar who had a glass of water poured over him.
Upon questioning by the Guardian he immediately deleted the comments and claimed innocence.
Read more on the story in the Guardian.
