Racism is very prevalent and alive in this world... the same way violence against women is a men's problem it's the same way that racism is a white person's problem. We must acknowledge that issues like systemic racism, economic inequality, and the achievement gap are the result of manmade white man policies. Uefa chief Aleksander Ceferin has accused British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of fuelling racism.."When you see high politicians, prime ministers -- when you see presidents of republics who are racists, who were sexist, you see that something is wrong."..
Ceferin said: "When a politician that calls women with burqas post boxes or mailboxes then says publicly that he condemns you Uefa -- do you reply to that? Do you believe it's honest? Come on...
A number of high-profile incidents in recent weeks, including racist abuse hurled at England players in Bulgaria and chants aimed at Romelu Lukaku and Mario Balotelli in Italy, have underlined the scale of the issue.
Several announcements were made over Tottenham’s public address system saying “racist behaviour from spectators is interfering with the game” ... Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits.
According to FIFA protocol, the second step of the protocol should be an announcement leading to the suspension of the match and the players returning to the locker room for a specific period. If the discrimination continues, the third step should the abandonment of the match.
The third announcement came in injury time, by which stage – according to FIFA protocol – the game should have been abandoned...We need to make sure we're all working together to change mindsets, to change attitudes, and to fight against the bad habits that we have as a society.
“Toni came to me and said he was listening in the crowd monkey noises,” the Spaniard said. “I reported it to the referee. We have to work together to eradicate the problem. It is an issue in life and football.
“It is made very clear to us all that if we have heard any racist incident to report it. Altogether we need to make it stop.”
The alleged racist incident is the latest one at a high-level Premier League game.
Others include Manchester United’s Fred who was a victim of a monkey gesture by a Manchester City fan. In July, Chelsea banned one of their fans for life after he racially abused Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling.
Tottenham defender Toby Alderweireld said players were “sick of it” when asked about the incident while Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho said “every club was together” in the battle to eradicate racist behaviour from the stands.
“I was losing, I didn’t want the game stopped but immediately when I knew the reason why it was stopped I obviously understood and accepted it,” he said.
“The club is also a very proud club in this kind of situation and the club also internally will try to delete it.
“I’m disappointed that things like that still can happen, but the referee stopped the game. He spoke to the players, he spoke to the captains, he spoke with the coaches.”
"I would be absolutely, 100 per cent behind them and I'm sure it would be a group decision." Chelsea boss Frank Lampard would back his players in walking off the pitch if subjected to racist abuse in future..
This is why I do not support any team in the West like I do teams in Kenya, I will watch games but never am I invested in those teams, I see some of my people calling teams in England or Spain 'as my team' & they live in Kenya, that's cool ...
...but never will you hear me say that because I have lived in the West long enough to know how much they will never be a place for our kind, not just those in Africa but not even those Black born & raised in the West, even those representing foreign teams. My teams are in Kenya.
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