He simply shrugged! Perhaps as disappointing is that not one of the people sitting near this young man felt it necessary to say or do anything. At full-time I went to the same steward and asked about what had happened. In the second half, Kevin Nolan scored, and Diego Forlan came on to be greeted with the cry, 'Another f****** dago bastard'. At half-time I approached a steward and told him what I had had to listen to. All through the first half, a young man behind me kept up a full-volume spate of abuse, most of it racist, directed at his own team (United).Īmong the choicer items Phil Neville was called a 'f****** spastic drongo', and two other players respectively 'a f****** Welsh half breed' and 'a f****** dago bastard'. I was sitting in the south stand, perhaps 10 rows in front of and 20 seats to the right of where Sir Bobby sits with Lady Charlton.
The 'fan' behind me started by saying: 'Racism isn't cowardice, it's telling them they're black.' Then Shaka Hislop made a good save: 'I just can't believe he's not white.' When Hislop moved quickly around the area he was 'dodging spears'. I haven't heard racist remarks at Fratton Park for years there are anti-racism banners all around the ground and all stewards wear anti-racism badges.
The game was OK, but all she'll remember is this one moron's contribution.
#IN THE GAME SCUM CAN GORE BE DISABLED FULL#
Your article highlighted chants at other grounds that are commonplace at Sunderland - such as 'town full of Pakis', monkey chants and various endings to 'black *******'.
I found the limp response by the police particularly galling as the Crewe match programme contained two articles on the 'Let's Kick Racism out of Football' campaign and an interview with Emile Heskey about his treatment in Bratislava.