The behaviour of some England fans is quite a common occurrence across most City centres and towns across England on a Friday/Saturday night.
London’s knife crime is out of control and the police have lost the streets.
Welcome to modern England.
Though having travelled extensively across Europe it isn’t that much better intact in fact Countries like Spain & Italy’s views on black people are abhorrent.
Worlds pretty ****ed and locking people up for 18 months has’t helped.
You are right.
Deep societal problems, not just here but in many countries.
IMO, the best thing would be to stop for ever talking about and reporting on these colour issues (and the range of other issues). But the media, and now social media, fuel it all.
As many posts & tweets said, at the time of the penalties, we didn't even notice the players colour. The abuse comes no matter what colour, race, religion, status, etc. Remember back to Beckham, Southgate, Turner, McClaren, the list goes on and on.
The media are without a moral compass and are utterly 2 faced. As are most organisations, who only really serve self / shareholder interest.
The government and institutions need to focus on tackling the societal problems at their roots. Kneeling, armbands, symbols, whatever, will never solve anything, and in fact often just create further division and also distraction from the real issues; they are bollocks. It's about what you actually DO.
And when players & managers themselves get on their high horses, perhaps remind them that they wear those 'respect' armbands; maybe they should start with themselves and how they behave on the field e.g. the way they react to the ref, linos & other players, the way most constantly cheat (claiming a throw or corner was theirs when they know it's not or conning the ref), the language they use on the field, etc etc.
I can't really see society changing now. It's all gone too far. Society is pretty ****ed. We've reaped what we've sown over decades. Violence, abuse, rights ahead of responsiblity, blame & victim culture, etc have all been normalised. Governments don't really have the will (for the risk of upsetting those that have different views) nor do they have, or at least want to put the money & resource to really tackle things, and besides they've gone way too far down the path of devolving power & authority to multiple authorities that it's now so difficult to change anything and so easy for the government and these devolved authorities to simply blame each other.
It's a pity that China isn't a force for good. Their inevitable rise to world domination might have seen some sort of societal reset, but frighteningly they are the opposite.
Even a pandemic hasn't really brought some sort of reset. After the initial early promise & hope, it looks increasingly like it's just another accelerator of the existing societal problems.
As the increasingly used phrased goes "what is wrong with people"? Something needs to change in our society and urgently. I just don't see it happening. We've been on a worrying path for decades, and it's only getting worse.
