{"id":294005,"date":"2023-09-26T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=294005"},"modified":"2023-09-26T10:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:38:01","slug":"chelsea-hooligan-says-russell-brand-doc-stinks-and-fools-believe-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/chelsea-hooligan-says-russell-brand-doc-stinks-and-fools-believe-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea hooligan says Russell Brand doc ‘stinks’ and ‘fools believe anything’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A former notorious Chelsea hooligan has lent his support to Russell Brand.<\/p>\n

    A number of women, including a teenager, accused Brand of predatory behaviour in claims detailed in Channel 4 documentary Dispatches. But the comedian denies rape and sexual assault allegations \u2013 saying he is being \u201cattacked\u201dby the mainstream media<\/p>\n

    And Jason Marriner, who used to lead the Chelsea Headhunters gang, believes he was targeted in a similar conspiracy. He was jailed in December 2000 after footage showed him planning an \u201cambush\u201d in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

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    The BBC documentary featured undercover reporter Donal MacIntrye who got a Chelsea tattoo to gain Marriner\u2019s trust. Boasting to MacIntrye about bringing hooligans to the midlands, he said on the programme: \u201cWe have got about three coaches going and a minibus. It's sorted. It's naughty. Leicester will be naughty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    His links to the far right were also uncovered when he bragged about shocking Auschwitz visitors by doing Nazi salutes. After being sent to prison, a judge concluded that he \u201crelished violence\u201d. <\/p>\n

    But following his release, he went on to write a book claiming the BBC expos\u00e9 was a fake \u201cstitch-up\u201d. He now lives in Thailand where he runs a shop selling British food \u2013 and spoke out after the Russell Brand allegations came to light.<\/p>\n

    Taking to TikTok, he said: \u201cIn the latest news, person that I\u2019m not the biggest fan of, Russel f*****g Brand, but let\u2019s have it right. As soon as he starts f*****g bringing other people down and starts stating facts, they want to start making claims don\u2019t they. It\u2019s mental init, do you know what I mean? <\/p>\n

    \u201cThink they done it to Katie Hopkins, think they done it to Nigel Farage, they are just trying every single way\u2026 now I don\u2019t even find the kid funny, do you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

    \u201cHe\u2019s got something to say, he\u2019s got a story to tell, and he\u2019s told it and the establishment ain\u2019t too keen on him are they. It\u2019s amazing that, do you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

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    \u201cBut what I can tell you is, now I have been on the back of documentaries haven\u2019t I? It all stinks mate. And what does make me laugh is they are fools out there, actually fools, that believe everything they see.<\/p>\n

    \u201cSee, now speaking on a personal scenario they had 344 hours worth of video footage of me. That is like watching the television for two and half weeks 24 hours a day. An awful lot of footage and that is the best they could pull up.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Ranting, he continued: \u201cBut it ain\u2019t that bad. I got out on a Tuesday, ain\u2019t that bad. But what I am saying is, I have never watched these documentaries tunnel vision but I am afraid people do and there will be some proper dumbos out there, proper fools, that believe everything.<\/p>\n

    \u201cAs we all know, I thought in the UK it was innocent until proven guilty, don\u2019t seem to be the way does it, whether you like him, whether you don\u2019t like him.<\/p>\n

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    \u201cWhy is the media made themselves so busy about it? They made a documentary ain\u2019t they, they added and enhanced things and do what they done with me, added things and made up a load of b*****s, said what they wanted to say, planted seeds in people's canisters and people were happy and things like that, do you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

    \u201cOh yeah no smoke without fire and this and that and what have you. All b*****s mate, all b******s, absolute getup. As soon as you start fighting against the establishment they don\u2019t like it, and that\u2019s the bottom line I\u2019m not a fan of him, I will put my hands up, if I am wrong, I am wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Despite now living a much quieter life in south-east Asia, Marriner found infamy again in December last year. His followers found out he had an image of Fusilier Lee Rugby, the British soldier slaughtered to death in May 2013, stuck on his fridge.<\/p>\n

    And a message alongside it read: \u201cMurdered by Islam on a British street. Forgotten by the media. By the political elite. BUT NOT BY THE PUBLIC.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Speaking to his thousands of TikTok followers, the hooligan turned author said: \u201cWe don't forget Lee Rigby, we don't forget Lee Rigby, ey, we don't mess about on this firm son, you know what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

    He was heavily criticised for the emblazoned image, with Rigby\u2019s loved ones often asking people not to use him in a \u201cdivisive\u201d way.<\/p>\n