Its a shame that in this millenium black players have to deal with monkey chants from the opposing team's fans. I know that this isn't the first time that something like this has happened and it probably won't be the last but I just hope that FIFA will deal with this situation in the appropriate manner. Racism is ugly in all its forms and it should not be tolerated.
For those of you who don't follow the news (shame on you!!) visit the link below to get a better grasp of what I'm talking about.
It has caused quite an uproar here, Tony Blair and the sports minister have demanded an official apology from the Spanish Govt and there are reports that there is a Fifa and Uefa investigation going on which could result in a fine, Spain playing their world cup qualifiers with no spectators and maybe even a ban of some sort.
It is not only the politicians who are disgusted, the general public are too. It was quite bad because you could actually hear it on the telly yet the Spanish officials say they heard nothing! Maybe they are deaf!
I don't know if you are aware but the Spanish coach called Thierry Henry "That black ****" I think it was some time last week. There were calls for him to apologise but he refused and instead went on to say that the British are racist because they colonised Africa.
What I find really funny is that both Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid want to buy Shaun Wright-Phillips (he is Ian Wright's son and was one of the players monkeyed at) and it looks very unlikely that he will agree to go! All of this is definately not going to help Madrid's bid to host the olympics in 2012! I guess if they are going to make monkey noises at the olympics they will all lose their voices coz us blacks will be everywhere!
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It annoys me whenever you read such utter nosense that the white man was making monkey chants. Looking at things critically in the sport world, a lot of blacks have contributed significantly to the financial success, fame of so many teams be either at club or national level. We have the likes of Thiery arsenal is benefitting france too, we have the like of Roberto Carlos Real Madrid is benefitting, We have Samuel Etto Barcelona is benefitting at the same the success of these Spanish teams make the Spanish League famous. Now I fail to understand how a whole human being who has shares in various teams whose success is being contributed by the so called monkeys who at the end earns dividends is behaving like this. But may be another view is that is just petty jealousy cause most blacks are very famous in most categories of sports Look at boxing, What about atheletics the list goes on on again but my only other comment is lets keep on kicking their as****##@@!! basitu.
The spanish people are and will be under perfomers in Europe for some time. We hear of the clubs often ( Real Madrid, Barcelona and all of them) because of black players and other ethnic players. To all the people in Europe ( and that includes the UK too ) can you tell me ,is racism becoming more prevalent ? i mean these British players had the same problem with the Czech republic i think over Euro 2004 and Arsenal has the same problems at HOME (in England). Damn!
They have now apologised koma ndi opusa because they have only done because they were asked to. When journalists asked the spanish officials to comment about the chanting after the game they didn't want to know!
Originally posted by: Abromovich " It annoys me whenever you read such utter nosense that the white man was making monkey chants. Looking at things critically in the sport world, a lot of blacks have contributed significantly to the financial success, fame of so many teams be either at club or national level. We have the likes of Thiery arsenal is benefitting france too, we have the like of Roberto Carlos Real Madrid is benefitting, We have Samuel Etto Barcelona is benefitting at the same the success of these Spanish teams make the Spanish League famous. Now I fail to understand how a whole human being who has shares in various teams whose success is being contributed by the so called monkeys who at the end earns dividends is behaving like this. But may be another view is that is just petty jealousy cause most blacks are very famous in most categories of sports Look at boxing, What about atheletics the list goes on on again but my only other comment is lets keep on kicking their as****##@@!! basitu."
Abromovich, do you reallythink we're kicking ass in sports (or anywhere else for that matter) look into any Soccer/football/b-ball boardroom- you name it & tell me how many black faces you see. Black athletes are good, i hear you there, but you should remember, they are the product & not the profit takers i.e the bosses. There's a food chain Abromovich & we definitely ain't at the top.
PS;i think racism sucks cause i been at the recieving end of it for way too long. Anyone who condones racism (both on & off the pitch) should be put in a barrel full of nails and dropped off a cliff