Re: Scum giving Brits (and football) a bad name
Originally Posted by
Anita
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Ive wondered about that but you do see black players getting racially abused sometimes.
Some people say that some sport and especially football is a substitute for fighting battles so people like to get very tribal about their team and identity even down to race.
Racism is not very bright really, colour is skin deep and our insides are exactly the same.
What is different is culture in different parts of the world and when cultures clash that's a whole other minefield.
I go to arsenal fair bit , only 10 minutes down the road , course around here it's mainly arsenal supporters , the ones I come across with that are racist , the black players that play in their team are like gods if they playing well , no body can say a bad word against them , but the same people will go to a match and if away team scores and it's a black player that scored against them , then they will shout racist abuse at that player ,
Been to Spain and Turkey with arsenal or England play , the Turks are will chanting monkey in their thousands, been to Spain and they are the same , think uk supporter are quite tame compare to some other European country's ,
Regarding these Chelsea supporters on the train , there's a hard core of old school Chelsea supporters that are right wing , going back to the days of the Chelsea head hunters , and combat 18 , but in all walks of life your going to get racist , it's just not a football illness,
But your right it's is a mine field , more complex than colour in many cases