The main topic about todays football. One of the main topics on the now blocked politics thread Do people think it's more common now? Personally i don't, i think it's always been there, and is nowhere near the levels of yesteryears. It's just highlighted more now.
Tired of reading about it now. Why do people feel the need to shout racist abuse at football games? Call the opposition dirty northern or Southern bastards, ****ers, or that their support is ****. Trivial things. Not stuff like this. Have to say in 50 odd pompey games I've never heard a single thing yet seems a fair few clubs have issues.
I would say the virtually every club has an element, so this isn't aimed at Spurs. Players walking off? Points deductions? Does anyone really want to see that?
There are some proper types at pompey too but I usually get tickets in the Fratton End right in the middle and haven't heard naff all. People know to keep their opinions to themselves. I don't think endless media coverage is the answer. Normal people get bombarded by it. Shut the stadium for a match. The good folk in the stadium will soon deal with dick heads then.
Some people think it’s ok to be overtly racist nowadays. I can’t think what can have caused that! It’s to be condemned wherever it appears. If some of our so called fans were guilty today I hope they get what’s coming to them.
I don't believe racism is more common in the true sense of the meaning, although some would argue there has been an increase due to the change of the political landscape over the last three to four years (I ought to be a politician) in this country - but that is not quite the same as becoming more common. We need to remember, that football is now under constant scrutiny, not just by the TV cameras, but also by the control rooms, that have all the latest technology within the modern stadium. So it is easily more identifiable. Then you have social issues come into it, which most of this stems from. Recent events abroad around Ultra's saw how this was highlighted in a match against England. A division of cultures and past conflicts (Yugoslavia); I think Yugoslavia was one of the places that highlighted to me via football as a younger man, the evident divisions on the terraces that were to be played out for real in the latter war, that these divisions were more than just skin colour but religion as well. Sadly it still blights our English terraces. I've even seen it dealt with on my own home terraces, when fans were arrested over the 'Scottish' banter. We will win this fight against racism, but to do that, the consequences of it need to be dealt with and felt in the most harshiest of terms. Spurs will have the technology in their billion pound stadium, and the message should be and always be, we are coming after you. Football can't be held accountable for society but it can be held accountable for what happens in it's grounds, especially with todays modern technology. I don't want to see this spoil banter on the terraces, but I do want to see people educated to know the difference and it looks like that will have to be done via the long arm of the law.
Standing at the cash point a few months ago, a black couple were talking behind me "she called me a monkey, I couldn't believe it, no white person has ever called me that"
so it does, so who called her a monkey? it is all bollox though, shouting 'monkey'etc when virtually every team in the land has at least one black player. so they are shouting at their own team players also. i get how racism can work when targeted at individuals on the streets etc, but now in a multi player sport,
Isn't it that racists are generally a bit thick? I bet a lot of racists do hate that their team have black players to be honest, just not openly.
I think a lot off them maybe or maybe not racists, but football somehow brings out the moron in people.
You are bang on the nail, my experience of racists are that they are uneducated, and cannot see the comparison that black players maybe in both teams on the pitch, including the one they support, for some reason it don't register with their brain matter.
