Not widely reported but there have been reports that someone in the melee called the Romanian referee a gypsy.
How long before this is used as a tactic ? Manager or a captain waving his losing team off the field because he 'heard' a racial comment from the crowd, opposition bench, another player etc ? Man up, get on with the game and tackle any problems after the final whistle.
Maybe I’m a dinosaur who needs educating but I really don’t think there’s an issue with what happened in the PSG game. Can you not call a black guy a black guy? It’s wasn’t said with any malice. It was used in a descriptive capacity. It’s things like this that dilute people’s tolerance and have the opposite effect of what is trying to be achieved. When actual racism does occur more people are likely to just assume it’s something or nothing and disregard it.
"Look I don't speak Romanan nor am I sure they share our cultural norms, but I think he may have indicated me in a way that some people may have interpreted as disparaging."
OK if they are from one half of Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul, a city so good they named it thrice.
