Why Is Racism Such A Problem In Football?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/england-will-walk-off-pitch-if-players-racially-abused-in-bulgaria-11831166
I hope England carry out their threat to walk off if any players are abused. In fact I would urge all teams to start doing it.

[Rockrose]

//Personally, I and my family are colour blind//
Sorry Theland but I am going to call you on that - given the stuff you write about on here you are definitely not colour blind!!

[teacake44]

I don't believe it is about colour at football matches, its about indiots that have nothing better to do than find an excuse to create trouble in a crowd, and this fits the bill, to set it all alight.

[Mozz71]

It's not all about skin colour. I'm a Spurs fan (shut up), and have witnessed 5,000 West Ham "fans" making a hissing noise, supposed to represent the noise of gas taps murdering Jews. Football has been poisoned by racism for decades. I always believed that lifetime bans need to be imposed by clubs for any supporter found guilty of such abuse, on top of any court sentences.

[Mozz71]

Rose, I actually believe Theland when he says he is colourblind. His (often extreme) prejudices are completely based on others' spiritual beliefs.

[Theland]

Rock rose you are wrong . Mozz thank you for your support.
I cannot lie so please believe me.

[Rockrose]

Theland you have made some awful comments on here about colour and have been pulled up about it before - then you always trot out the same excuse 'I have a coloured DIL - I therefore cannot be racist!'

[Ken4155]

Is there not a problem if players/teams are prepared to walk off the pitch due to racist chants from the spectators? Let's say i support a team who are getting thrashed 3-0 with no sign of improvement. So i begin a racist chant, picked up by a few other morons and the players on the leading side walk off the pitch. Match abandoned?

[Theland]

Oh dear Rockrose. As you wish.
If I have used words or phrases inappropriately then I apologise for any unintended offence caused.
But you are correct to admonish me for any failings on my part.

[Spicerack]

^Never back down.

[retrocop]

A few Hail Mary's should do the trick. :-)

[Theland]

Am not Catholic, so Bloody Mary's more appropriate.
Anyway, who is Mary in the grand scheme?

[retrocop]

Only room for one God old chap. Be he called Jehova,Mohammed or Pinky and Perky.
Love your neighbour and don't covet her ass and all that. Exodus 20:17

[Theland]

Yes the One True God.

[Jordyboy9]

Good point ken I was thinking along those lines,
Walking off when getting racial chants would open a can of worms,as you rightly say what’s to stop them starting chanting when their teams losing?

[sanmac]

Retro, they have Hail Marys in American football. Perhaps that's
why their fans don't resort to loutish and riotous behaviour:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass

[retrocop]

//Walking off when getting racial chants would open a can of worms,as you rightly say what’s to stop them starting chanting when their teams losing?//

That's not in the spirit of sport. There are enough cheats diving about and howling on the pitch as it is.

[Deskdiary]

Football seems to attract a certain type of person who revel in the tribe mentality.

I am a Saracens season ticket holder and I also go to as many England games at Twickenham as I can. Not once, ever, in all the years I have been attending rugby have I seen any trouble.

Whether it's domestic games or International games the fans mix with each other and sit with each other perfectly happily.

Only last week, before the Eng/Arg game, a BBC reporter was standing outside the ground saying the English and Argentinian supporters had created a party atmosphere and were drinking together. Can you imagine this EVER happening in football?

It's the mentality of some football supporters that turns them into invective-spitting racist, violent idiots. You meet a better class of person at rugby.

[Spicerack]

Some of you people have got it right in for E. Europeans.
They can't help it if they're not as woke as we all are.....yet.

[ToraToraTora]

quite right DD, BA, been to countless rugby matches, seen no agro and no isms, ever.

[Spicerack]

Around here, it's the thugby boys cause all the trouble. The football boys are usually alright.
That's just the local teams, not the pros.