JK Rowling has launched a series of furious broadsides at the Cobblers claiming the crowd favourite Shoe Army Mascot, Clarence the Dragon, is actually a man.
Rowling, a self proclaimed expert on mythical creatures due to her series of kid's books, has blasted the club on X. She wrote: "What will it take to end this insanity? Every other Saturday thousands of fans, many of them impressionable children, are exposed to this ridiculous charade of pretending a biological male in a costume is actually a dragon. Sporting a tale, wings and 'green scales' does not make you a dragon."
Cobblers fans, and other members of the online far right community, took to social media to discuss the comments.
"I'm not racist, I just hate foreigners and people who are a different colour to me and that includes green blokes!" said one.
"What next a bloke that identifies as a phoenix!?😂😂😂" said another.
Zooming in on a photo of Clarence's groin a third added: "I'm not being funny but that's a meat and two veg there. I don't recall any dragons ever having one of them 🤔".
A fourth posted "there's a simple test here that will solve this, have Clarence breath on a smashed up wooden pallet, if it catches fire he's clearly got the adequate number of dragon chromosomes".
