Tony Ernst
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Tony Nicolai Ernst, born 31 October 1966, is a journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 and writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 of Swedish hip hop
Swedish hip hop
Emerging in the first half of the 1980s, Swedish hip hop was first heard from the cities of Stockholm and Malmö. In the early days, most rappers in Sweden rapped in English. Funkalics and The Latin Kings, two very different acts united by their innovative use of the Swedish language, debuted a...

, based in Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. He is the founder of the "Only Swedish Magazine about Black Music", Gidappa.

Jan Majlard rivalry

In 2004, Tony Ernst critizised Swedish journalist Jan Majlard for several attacks on the Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Milan and the Swedish national team for which he is captain....

, including a personal attack where Majlard compared Zlatan with Mike Tyson
Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...

. A debate between Ernst and Majlard followed, where Ernst explained that "he wouldn't walk out of a press conference in case the star player avoided answering a question", referring to when Majlard left a press conference after Zlatan refused to answer his question. The rivalry heated up in 2006, when Majlard wrote an article for Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...

 where he attacked Ernst again.

The day after a derby game between Djurgården and Hammarby
Hammarby IF
Hammarby Fotboll is a Swedish football club based in Johanneshov - just south of Södermalm, the southernmost district of Stockholm city centre...

 was stopped following hooliganism among Hammarby supporters, Majlard wrote an article for Svenska Dagbladet where he attacked Ernst again, and only referred to him as "a cultural worker". He also pointed out that Ernst was a member of MFF Support
MFF Support
MFF Support is the official fan club for Swedish football club Malmö FF. Founded on November 1, 1992, it has 1,877 members as of September 2011. Based on the number of members it is one of largest fan clubs in Sweden. Since the founding of the fan club in the early 1990s the number of members have...

, Malmö FF
Malmö FF
Malmö Fotbollförening, also known simply as Malmö FF, are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club is affiliated with Skånes Fotbollförbund and play their home games at Swedbank Stadion. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are sky blue and white...

's official fan club, and called him a "hooligan with a goosepen".

Ernst responded with an article on a Malmö FF fan site where he critizised Swedish sports journalism, and focused on Majlard labelling MFF Support as hooligans. Ernst pointed out that MFF Support have worked against violence, racism, and hooliganism. And he also critizised Majlard for "labelling MFF Support's 4.000 members as hooligans". Majlard's one-word response to Ernst' article was "Skvallerbyttabingbång!" ("Nyah-nyah, you tattler!")

Ernst was the chairman of MFF Support
MFF Support
MFF Support is the official fan club for Swedish football club Malmö FF. Founded on November 1, 1992, it has 1,877 members as of September 2011. Based on the number of members it is one of largest fan clubs in Sweden. Since the founding of the fan club in the early 1990s the number of members have...

from 2006 until 2009.
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