Racism in Football
In the below video Ethics in Football takes a closer look at racism in football. Property of Thomas Westcott.
Racism has been a prominent and on-going problem for the football authorities such as The Football Association (The FA) & UEFA for years.
Every time they think they have been successful in stamping out this issue, it rears its ugly head again.
The Football Association are now battling to remain on top of racist behaviour after high profile incidents involving Luis Suarez, John Terry and Rio Ferdinand amongst others in recent years. One of those high profile incidents saw Luis Suarez banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 by The FA after racially insulting Patrice Evra, calling him a "negro" on several occasions, at Anfield in a Premier League game against Manchester United.
"You can always do more"
There may be issues of racist behaviour in England but more of a focus has turned to Eastern Europe, Italy and Russia due to the amount of racist incidents in these countries in regards to football. Manchester City’s Yaya Toure suffered racial abuse and chants from the stands in Russia against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League as recently as October 2013. UEFA reacted to this and ordered a partial closure of CSKA Moscow’s stadium in their next Champions League fixture.
Every time they think they have been successful in stamping out this issue, it rears its ugly head again.
The Football Association are now battling to remain on top of racist behaviour after high profile incidents involving Luis Suarez, John Terry and Rio Ferdinand amongst others in recent years. One of those high profile incidents saw Luis Suarez banned for eight matches and fined £40,000 by The FA after racially insulting Patrice Evra, calling him a "negro" on several occasions, at Anfield in a Premier League game against Manchester United.
"You can always do more"
There may be issues of racist behaviour in England but more of a focus has turned to Eastern Europe, Italy and Russia due to the amount of racist incidents in these countries in regards to football. Manchester City’s Yaya Toure suffered racial abuse and chants from the stands in Russia against CSKA Moscow in the Champions League as recently as October 2013. UEFA reacted to this and ordered a partial closure of CSKA Moscow’s stadium in their next Champions League fixture.
Scott Field of The FA talks about racism across Europe and UEFA...
Also in October 2013, football’s equality and inclusion campaign, Kick it out, celebrated 20 years of campaigning to make football a safer, less intimidating and more enjoyable game for anyone at any level of football.
Will we ever see an end to racism in football? Scott Field, Head of Media Relations at the FA thinks, that football authorities can always do more. “Have the authorities done a lot, yes, have the players done a lot, yes. But you can always do more and clearly we are still seeing cases of it in the game, at many different levels.
There is an 'inclusion and anti-discrimination plan' that the FA has now that will run from 2013 to 2017 and the FA will shortly be announcing an inclusion advisory board as well, to help combat this problem.”
Will we ever see an end to racism in football? Scott Field, Head of Media Relations at the FA thinks, that football authorities can always do more. “Have the authorities done a lot, yes, have the players done a lot, yes. But you can always do more and clearly we are still seeing cases of it in the game, at many different levels.
There is an 'inclusion and anti-discrimination plan' that the FA has now that will run from 2013 to 2017 and the FA will shortly be announcing an inclusion advisory board as well, to help combat this problem.”
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