Leeds followers need BBC apology over ‘obscene’ Jimmy Savile chants in new drama
Leeds United followers are demanding an apology from the BBC over ‘damaging and inaccurate scenes’ of their new drama about Jimmy Savile, The Reckoning.
Steve Coogan stars as Savile within the present, however Leeds declare the dramatisation of the notorious presenter has led to a rise of sufferer chanting at Elland Road. Clive Miers, of the Leeds Supporters Network, mentioned the chants have elevated because the collection was screened in September.
He added the chanting causes “trauma, torment and suffering” for any survivors of sexual abuse, not simply those that suffered abuse by the hands of Savile.
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Miers contacted the BBC over his complaints, noting one scene the place the biographer asks Savile why Leeds supporters would purpose chants at visiting followers that he would abuse them within the morgue.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Miers mentioned: “This is simply untrue, I have been to more than 2,000 games. We have 46 Leeds supporters’ groups under our umbrella and over 9,000 members and nobody can remember hearing this.
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“The BBC has used football and Leeds United to provide a shortcut to allude to Savile’s necrophilia by inventing an obscene chant!” Miers wrote to the BBC over his complaints.
And they responded, telling him all of the scenes within the drama had been primarily based on first-hand accounts and so they wished to convey the “widespread circulation many years before the truth eventually began to emerge after his death”.
Miers added: “These chants are not terrace banter. They can cause trauma, torment and suffering for survivors of sexual abuse who may be in the ground, and not just those abused by Jimmy Savile.
‘We call on the BBC to apologise to the supporters of Leeds United and the FA in conjunction with the police to take immediate action.”