Exclusive: EDL Marsh’s Violent Threats To Guardian Writer

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A known English Defence League mouthpiece has responded to the Guardian’s expose of the faction with a violent threat, directed at the journalist who broke the story.

Jeff Marsh – who also uses the names ‘Joe Cardiff’ and ‘Arry Lad’ on social networking sites – refers to the Guardian’s Matthew Taylor as a ‘cunt’, and claims he would like to see the journalist wearing ‘concrete wellies’ – a reference to a gangland murder technique involving weighing down the victim and drowning them.

This latest outburst will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Marsh, who has strong links to football hooliganism’s umbrella organisation, Casuals United. Forty four year old Marsh, a convicted football thug from Barry, is now the head of the Welsh Defense League and a recruiter for the Casuals.

Disgustingly, Marsh has had two books published about his time as a thug, including one detailing his days as head of the violent Soul Crew firm.

Amazon says of him:

Jeff Marsh was a well known figure in the Soul Crew and was involved in hundreds of battles and street-fights and was jailed 3 times for violence, including a two year sentence for stabbing two Man Utd fans.

Quite why this is worthy of praise, we have no idea. And it would sem we are not alone, as one reviewer of his work makes the following statements:

The usual mountainous hooligan book “Grew up in the 70s, tough working class town, salt of the earth, mods, skinheads etc etc became a hooligan” However told with a lot more honesty than most of the recently published rubbish.

First of all, Marsh doesn’t even attempt to come across as a pleasant character but rather a small minded racist thug (Reference to black people as “darkies” Asians as “Bombay Bad-Boys” Driving their “Quickie Mart-Mobile”) Who runs with fellow small minded thugs who spend most of their spare time attacking rival fans (Hooligans or otherwise he openly admits to attacking normal fans) Club bouncers, left wing protesters, taxi drivers pretty much anyone he meets. He openly admits to carrying Stanley knives and other assorted weapons and using them at will.

The book is filled with the usual travels across the country, fights with rival fans, robberies in London, Birmingham and Wales, trashing pubs and in general just being a prat really. Like most hooligan books he is now a 30 something still “Doing the business” But leaving the carrying of weapons to the “Younger lads” as the prison sentences are just not worth it. He sets up fake BNP meetings across South Wales (For a laugh) Goes on the run from the police and generally spends most of the book stabbing, bottling and stamping on peoples heads.

I heard the author is now big in the English Defense League (Even though he is Welsh and spends most of the book attacking the “English” and how proud he is of being Welsh) Considering the EDL are supposed to be non racist I wonder if any of those handful of EDL Black supporters have read this book (I am sure they will be impressed with Marsh’s attacking “Darkies” in London with roadside traffic furniture).

Until recently, Mouthy Marsh could also be seen regularly ranting on YouTube, bedecked in his balaclava and using the alias ‘Arrylad’, making us wonder what he has to hide that we do not already know about. Someone ought to tell him his headgear in the videos is akin to the burqas his fascist friends like to demonise….

Marsh as he appears ion his now deleted YouTube rants

This hilarious spoof appeared recently, and we think this man deserves a National Comedy Award:

It seems Marsh’s reputation precedes him, and we are the latest in an increasing line of publications to examine his behaviour and involvement with the EDL and other violent factions. Richard Bartholomew writes:

Marsh’s memoir Soul Crew Seasiders is available to browse on Google Books, and it contains many nostalgic reminiscences. Typically:

…As we came out of the club it immediately went off with a load of drunken Geordies. As they were so drunk we slaughtered them in seconds…Stanleys were glinting in the moonlight. (67)

Etc, etc. But it’s not all violence; one memory is particularly Proustian:

The “shit pancake” boys were at work on these trips too. Basically, one or two of our boys…had a habit of crapping on the toilet seat, picking it up with toilet paper then writing “CCFC” all over the walls in shite. This was a lovely reminder to pub landlords that we’d been there, and was carried out all over the UK…They just had to hold their nose, try not to puke and clean it up. Nice!(67)

Marsh also claims he is not racist:

As long as you’re all Cardiff who cares what colour you are? (90)

However, as a skinhead there were sometimes unfortunate misunderstandings with persons of colour:

An occupational hazard of being a skinhead was the hassle you got from blacks…They couldn’t tell which Skins were racist or not, you would get attacked by them all the time. We went to see the band Bad Manners in Cardiff and ended up being chased through the streets of Grangetown by a mob of Rastas with knives…One day some of the younger Skins came running up to us saying they’d been started on by some Asians in the fairground…We all ran up through the fair and found them…One came over to me and I smashed his nose…(18)

But on the other hand, after being refused entry to a club in Plymouth, his friend

…starts shouting “ain’t no black in the Union Jack” and the black bouncers went mad. (115)

It seems this this kind of thing was supposedly just banter; recalling work colleagues in London:

I got on well with all of them, they called me “Taff” and used to write “Sheep-shagger” on my hardhat but I never went grizzling to the Race Relations Board asking for compo. (114)

He also describes creating a false rumour of  the “racist BNP” organising a meeting because “it was hilarious to watch everyone running around like headless chickens” and to see “Anti Racists” getting into battles with the police and local dockers.

Bartholomew adds:

Arrylad has now deleted his channel; apparently he was annoyed thaat “commies had embedded” his messages. However, one message has resurfaced on the Hooligancentral channel, with the name “Arrylad” replaced with “Lee B’stard of the WDL”. In this rousing pep-talk, our man gives the Americans a stern talking-to about the need to “get off their arses”. He also explains that Nostradamus had prophesied that Britain would beat back the “Islamic hordes”.

You may now enjoy his hysterical outbursts at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/hooligancentral

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