aolstudios
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Wish I shared your optimism.
As a youngster I used to think people & societies naturally evolved to be better. They don't, they go up & down & every victory has to be won again & again. Sadly
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[Football] Forfeiting games or walking off when “fans” are racist
- Thread starter portlock seagull
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As a youngster I used to think people & societies naturally evolved to be better. They don't, they go up & down & every victory has to be won again & again. Sadly
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
- Jul 28, 2003
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It goes hand in hand, for sure. Football is smaller and easier to tackle though. Remember, this is OUR government you’re asking to fix something! But probably more can be done in our game mind. Though walking off, forfeiting games etc because one knobhead can’t keep their ignorance to themself isn’t the way to go as I’ve expressed IMO. I’d stop attending games, the cost and risk a pattern emerges is too great and we’d never be compensated would we? (Costs me hundreds per game to attend, as it will many others). All down the pan because some prick from a mill town pipes up? Why would you want to risk that all the time? Attending is hard enough without this jeopardy added to the equation.
I’m confused, which part do you disagree with? Seems like you are agreeing.
Get a few tickets in the oppositions team end and unleash the racist chants
It's a dumb idea, should be a straight banning order for life if found guilty.
It's a dumb idea, should be a straight banning order for life if found guilty.
withdeanwombat
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Don’t know enough about Italian football, let them sort things out themselves. We shouldn’t get involved, same as foreign policy!
Agree re: Shef Wed fan, as clear as daylight. Must be very very easy to have apprehended and dealt with yesterday never mind retrospect with cameras
I don’t think Europe will catch up. But I do hope it does.
On a positive note, the subject of this thread shows how far, thankfully, we have come in football and society. Memories of the NF handing out leaflets at the north stand turnstiles whilst standing next to the OB, chants of ‘there ain’t no black in the union jack’, monkey chants etc. Not sure if the occurrences themselves are more abhorrent than the fact that it was simply ‘normal’ then, but thank god we are now debating how we deal with one or two racist fans rather than a whole stand.
But we will not be where we should be until all racism is something of the past. Therefore,IMHO, if 30 000 need to suffer a cancelled game to achieve this then so be it.
But we will not be where we should be until all racism is something of the past. Therefore,IMHO, if 30 000 need to suffer a cancelled game to achieve this then so be it.