Racism in Sport

everyone and i mean everyone has said something racist or discriminated against others. If youve called your mates a poof a Joey ,spastic pikey etc,youve belitled dissability ,gays,gypseys for starters. Qpr use to sing some nasty songs about spurs and gas etc,fact. Sang town full of pikeys to luton,not exactly correct is it. The list and examples of all things in life could go on and on.And in truth none of its right but we all done it.

Disgusting song.

The Great Northern Run is a race!

UEFA keep talking about the "Football Family". One of the most shallow, duplicitous, poisonous, self centred, travesty of a family if ever there was one.

I've been threatened in a pub in Ireland for having an English accent. I've had glass put in my food in a restaurant in Wales.,but my favourite was in Scotland. Went into a pub in Cowdenbeath and was greeted by a grizzled 5'0" Scottish lady who greeted me as I entered with the statement "You're fucking English!.... I bet you're fucking catholic as well."

Instant prejudice.

It's tit for tat though isn't it mate? Rangers and Celtic fans have been goading each other with similarly horrible songs on either side for decades now.

I'd actually had a few beers when I posted that on his wall and I get similar shit from him whenever Celtic beat Rangers. But I did feel like a bit of an idiot the next day for posting it to be fair.

I had some nonsense from some meatheads in Cardiff as a teenager. Managed to talk my way out of a kicking by convincing them I was born in Glasgow (which I was).

Race is defined by ethnicity, not nationality.

I'm amazed people are so preoccupied by this. You can not engineer social change. It evolves or it doesn't. Its better here than it used to be but getting better was a function of cultural evolution, not regulation, becuase there have been almost sanctions over here in my time, and when I started going it was the real thing, banana skins reigning down. Music has been the biggest force of racial unity imo. A fine or ban wont make any difference. They don't give a fuck, its like everybody hates us but we don't care. There loads of racism in European based football every weekend, no sanctions. Being consistent ban wise would mean chucking out half the clubs in europe of all competitions.  It wont happen.

QPR ‘disgusted and embarrassed’ by Fifa and Uefa response to Spain walkout

By Paul MacInnes Wed 30 Oct 2019 17.57 GMT

Queens Park Rangers have accused Fifa and Uefa of “brushing racism under the carpet” as they wait to hear whether action will be taken over an incident that prompted their under‑18 team to abandon a match in Spain.

QPR walked off the pitch during a tour game against the Andalusian side AD Nervión in August. The club said it followed a number of racist incidents, which were reported to the referee only for no action to be taken. QPR said on Wednesday that Fifa took seven weeks to acknowledge their complaint and then told them it was a matter for Uefa. According to the club, Uefa had by then told them it fell in Fifa’s jurisdiction.

“Fifa and Uefa seem to treat complaints about racism like a complaint about a broken seat in a stadium,” the QPR chief executive, Lee Hoos, said. “I am left confused, frustrated and incredibly angry that more than 10 weeks after we lodged our complaint of racism, we are still awaiting a decision.

“Incredibly, despite the seriousness of this issue, it took seven weeks and the personal intervention of Greg Clarke – the chairman of the FA and vice-chairman of Fifa – to get a response from Fifa.

“Let’s not forget, the level of racism was so severe it led to an under-18s game being abandoned. Our players deserve better than that. People deserve to be treated better than that.

“There were a substantial number of people within the game who warned me at the time that this issue would be swept under the carpet and I am appalled to see this appears to be the case. I am disgusted, embarrassed and dismayed to call them our governing bodies when they are incapable of governing.

“Football is a powerful medium for positive change and education. Its reputation needs to be safeguarded. Unfortunately, the people in Fifa and Uefa are just not up to that important task.”

QPR’s intervention comes in the week that Uefa responded to persistent racial abuse by Bulgaria fans during England’s recent Euro 2020 qualifier in Sofia by forcing the hosts to play their next competitive fixture behind closed doors, a punishment deemed overly lenient by anti-racist campaigners.

The AD Nervión chairman, Manolo Fernández, has acknowledged one of the team’s players said something unacceptable but claimed it was in response to being spat at, an allegation denied by QPR.

“One of their players, much taller than our player, spat down into his face,” Fernández said. “In that moment our player said something to him. I don’t know what but from what they have said it would seem to be something inappropriate. It is not at all acceptable what he said. What the other boy did isn’t acceptable either.”

Fifa and Uefa have been approached for comment.

www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/30/qpr-accuse-fifa-uefa-racism-spain-walk-off

Wilf Zaha

Bloody hell, shocking

Thats disgusting.

Thats fucked up. And there are idiots out there who believe there isn't a problem with racism here.

1 knuckle dragger doesn't accurately represent the thoughts of society as a whole mate!

That bloke needs locking up. Part of the reason we still have this attitude in some people is that we don’t deal with the scum anywhere near severely enough.