I have to say that the recent rise in racist taunts in Europe, have been disgusting and harmful to the game and threatens to put a black eye on he countries supporters and the club supporters involved.
To make matters worse, UEFA are just handing out paltry fines. If anything is to be done about this, they need to start forcing games to be played behind closed doors, and even throwing teams (and nations) out of tournaments. It is totally unacceptable in this (or any) day and age.
Like Lilian Thuram and Fabio Liverani? Idiot. But seriously, while I agree that racism has no place in soccer, I wonder if UEFA should be in the business of dictating taste and politics. I fully agree with sanctions against clubs if supporters are causing danger to other supporters, but I'm not sure if UEFA should punish clubs for expression of racism. As distasteful as it is, policing expression should be left up to the clubs unless it poses a threat to player and fan safety.
answer this: if a crowd of supporters at an nba game started making racial chants towards one of the many black players on the court (aka: all 10 of them) do you think it would be the team or the league who would be charged with resolving the problem? i can see the league handing down a very hefty fine to the team...
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"Like Lilian Thuram and Fabio Liverani? Idiot. " they are africans. i know this topic is politically incorrect but seriously if the fans want to see people THAT LOOK LIKE THEM then the clubs should hire more of their own people. imagine if in africa lots of the players were white, people would want the clubs to hire less whites and more of their own. i know racism is bad but you have to understand all sides.
If it weren't for "Africans," France would not have a national team, or if it did it would be the equivalent of Bosnia. The best man gets the job, and in many cases in football, the best man happens to be Black (or some other non-White). Should not athletic ability be the sole determinant on who plays?
Have you ever been to France, Don? If you've spent even 5 minutes in Paris, you'd know how stupid you sound. There are people of African descent in most western European countries. There are French people that look like Thuram and Italians who look like Liverani. You don't think they support clubs too?
My guess is that there would be enough public pressure for the team to resolve the problem before the league gets involved.
What other side? Abuse is abuse whether its racist or not. If a white guy was playing in Africa and he got abuse then the same rules apply, its wrong. If racism is not acceptable in everyday life why should it be acceptable at football games? Your trying to justify racism by saying that the fans want to see people who look like them!!!! Then all the footballers would be fat f**ckers with no brains and small d!cks. Plus its not about their own teams its about visiting teams. Why should visiting teams only field players that look like the fans from the ground they are playing at!!! Wrong is wrong and all those complete, ******************ing Peices of sh!t that hurl racist abuse should be made to pay.
This is the most idiotic statement I've heard in a while and I've heard a few. So what about the black people in the crowd, why can't they watch someone play football who looks like them? Because there is a minority of black supporters (in England at least) this means that black players in England should expect to be subjected to racist abuse by the majority white supporters? I can't believe anyone would have such a crap argument to justify racism in any walk of life, let alone in a sporting context where the only criteria should be that if you are good enough to be in whatever team, then you should be in. And as for the picking Europeans to play in Europe stuff, how does that justify the abuse given out to the black England players in Slovakia on Saturday. Emile Heskey is from Leicester and Ashley Cole is from London for God's sake!
So do you think white South African players get abuse when they play for their side? This argument, weak enough as it is, completely falls over when you consider than fans are abusing the opposition team rather than their own. Why would Slovaks care what English players look like? Do they really have a burning desire to see the English team looking typically English?
the statements by lond2345 are the most ridiculous i've seen on this board. when are you going to learn that race and nationality is two entirely different things? is michael jordan an african? i always thought that he was from united states. if you look at perus national teams 2 best strikers one is black and the other is white. but they both speak the same language they were born and raised in the same country and belong to the same culture. to put it short both are peruvians! it's the same thing with desailly, zidane, djorkaeff and thuram from france and ashley cole and sol campbell from england to name a few. let's not forget henrik larsson, zlatan ibrahimovic and martin dahlin from sweden either.
Don't forget that Ashley Cole is half cast. What do they do then? half boo him? Boo him every other time he touches the ball?
Make polite racial slurs? "If it pleases you good sir, I would like you to go back to the jungle." "Sorry to interrupt you Mr, Cole but would you care for a banana?"
It's a social problem not a football one. You will never completly eradicate racism as it is part of the human psyche.
Doesn't mean you can't make the culprits pay for it. The issue is how to do it. You can't eliminate crime, rape, murder, etc. completely from the human race, either, but it doesn't mean you just sit on your a** and allow it to proliferate to a point where it threatens people. Let's just be clear that just because something can't be eliminated doesn't justify its existence.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/books/story/0,10595,620684,00.html Worth reading in regards to this thread.
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Do the English supporters stick up for their Black players, when the other teams supporters racially abuse them, and rain crap at them?
That's not even the point. People as ignorant as they may be are entitled to whatever opinion they wish. They should not be entitled to hurl racial abuse in a public forum any more than I should be able to walk up to a stranger on the street and rain threatening and abusive verbiage on them. That's all this is about, no more. No one believes that racism has been eradicated from the U.S. Yet there is not a sporting event in the country anything like this could take place. Anyone who participated in such behavior would be removed, no questions asked.