Leeds United fans are demanding an apology from the BBC over 'damaging and inaccurate scenes' in their new drama about Jimmy Savile, The Reckoning.
Steve Coogan stars as Savile in the show, but Leeds claim the dramatisation of the infamous presenter has led to an increase of victim chanting at Elland Road. Clive Miers, of the Leeds Supporters Network, said the chants have increased since the series was screened in September.
He added the chanting causes "trauma, torment and suffering" for any survivors of sexual abuse, not just those who suffered abuse at the hands of Savile.
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Miers contacted the BBC over his complaints, noting one scene where the biographer asks Savile why Leeds supporters would aim chants at visiting fans that he would abuse them in the morgue.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Miers said: "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 the scenes in the drama were based on first-hand accounts and they wanted 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."
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