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19 Feb 2015 14:40:19
Ref the racism issue. and before somebody cracks on about it being on a train in Paris and out of FIFA's hands and they're not taking responsibility etc etc

The answer to me is relatively simple. The clubs can be far more proactive in identifying these people on match days by using the stewards and security cameras to identify people making racist chants.

Stewards should be made to actively seek such behaviour, but not engage, merely communicate the seat number for security to identify. General public as well could do this via a steward.

Once identified, report to police and prosecute with the evidence provided. Ban them as well. Name and shame them (though some will see this as a badge of honour - in time they will see differently)

You might not be able to catch all at once, but if the club(s) announces it will be done, whether selected arbitrarily out of a bunch of racist chants or not, believe me, once people realise its being targeted, they will stop. If they don't they will eventually be caught, banned, prosecuted, named, shamed, passport removed even etc etc

If you're going to have stewards, make sure they do something positive in this manner.

Hopefully then these idiots will be less and less and not on trains in Paris to abuse innocent bystanders.

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We should be able to take our kids to the match without fear.
The sooner we get to that stage the better.

19 Feb 2015 16:52:04
Hate to name and shame but in matches I went to at Millwall, Brighton, Bouremouth, Barnet, Leicester, Aston Villa, Hull and Crawley I've reported people being racist in the crowd to stewards and policemen and they did absolutely nothing and told me to go away. A friend was on an internship with a club in the midlands in their media department at the time, they posted an article on it on their private blog (together with video evidence - after being told to go away by a policeman and a steward, I filmed my third approach (another steward)). They had their internship canceled a week later because 'they didn't want people thinking they could get ahead by shaming rival clubs'. Clubs certainly need to do more - starting by caring because it's right to care rather than just caring when they can't avoid or shut down the media storm.







 

 

 
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