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Brilliant article on some of the racism Rudiger has faced in football here: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/antonio-ruediger-champions-league-soccer-racism-chelseaProbably the best thing I've read on racism in football actually. It still boils my blood that we lost Toto at least in part due to racial abuse he received from our own fans. Not because we lost a good player. We're more than used to that. But because the club I love and associate with was tainted by the actions of idiots. Just like it was at Burton on the final day in 09/10. Hopefully we're all going to be on the terraces and in the stands of stadiums together again next season. If you hear anyone being racist (I haven't for ages at Town, I'm happy to say) in the Town ends, please call them out on it and report it. If you hear someone who has called someone out for being racist and they're getting grief back, jump in and defend that person too because these eejits don't belong in football.
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Brilliant article on some of the racism Rudiger has faced in football here: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/antonio-ruediger-champions-league-soccer-racism-chelseaProbably the best thing I've read on racism in football actually. It still boils my blood that we lost Toto at least in part due to racial abuse he received from our own fans. Not because we lost a good player. We're more than used to that. But because the club I love and associate with was tainted by the actions of idiots. Just like it was at Burton on the final day in 09/10. Hopefully we're all going to be on the terraces and in the stands of stadiums together again next season. If you hear anyone being racist (I haven't for ages at Town, I'm happy to say) in the Town ends, please call them out on it and report it. If you hear someone who has called someone out for being racist and they're getting grief back, jump in and defend that person too because these eejits don't belong in football.
I didn’t know this, if that’s so then it’s disgusting and they aren’t fans in my eyes, I heard toto left as he was given a phenomenal wage at Hartlepool that we could nowhere near match.
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At the play off final against Bristol Rovers I was with friends and a load of their young children and had to endure two town fans directly behind us hurling constant racist abuse at Toto and LJL throughout the whole game.
I guess these are the kind of people of who complain about players taking the knee, and always refute that racism exists at our club and in football generally.
I’ve heard it at many other matches as well, though not as extreme as on that day.
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I didn’t know this, if that’s so then it’s disgusting and they aren’t fans in my eyes, I heard toto left as he was given a phenomenal wage at Hartlepool that we could nowhere near match.
Was never confirmed by the club officially, but it was at Halifax away. I believe there were several Town fans that said they heard it at the time.
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At the play off final against Bristol Rovers I was with friends and a load of their young children and had to endure two town fans directly behind us hurling constant racist abuse at Toto and LJL throughout the whole game.
I guess these are the kind of people of who complain about players taking the knee, and always refute that racism exists at our club and in football generally.
I’ve heard it at many other matches as well, though not as extreme as on that day.
That's a classic example of idiots coming out of the woodwork on a bid day, isn't it? Hadn't heard of that happening at that match before. I kind of don't see not taking the knee as outrightly racist as there is the whole angle of whether or not it serves a purpose and that's something that Rudiger even alludes to in that article.
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Marcus Rashford has said that he has received around 70 racist messages since the UEFA cup final.
Some people are just cowardly, racist scum. We need to call it out, challenge the racists in the Town crowd and make it unacceptable.
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In no way disagreeing with anything above.
But the club have previously set their own precedent when it comes towards racism. Very difficult to ask fans to call out racists when it's common knowledge nothing will be done about it.
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In no way disagreeing with anything above.
But the club have previously set their own precedent when it comes towards racism. Very difficult to ask fans to call out racists when it's common knowledge nothing will be done about it.
This... The club were spineless that day Halifax and equally as spineless when that flipping cretin was racially abusing Aswad...they can pretend they were doing it because they believe in second chances but we all know that’s balderdash...a club that was pulling people in for ‘a chat’ Becauee they dared to challenge the club on social media yet they allowed a racist back in...someone that acruslly broke the law. That day at Halifax was embarrassing, could the club have lost some fans? Probably but who cares about losing a few racists?
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Brilliant article on some of the racism Rudiger has faced in football here: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/antonio-ruediger-champions-league-soccer-racism-chelseaProbably the best thing I've read on racism in football actually. .
Its good that racism is being confronted in football more now but I hope other things aren't ignored as well. I know from training younger players in the past a bullying culture exists that's irrespective of race. We need to work on improving the whole . Craig Bellamy and Luke Chadwick have alluded to this in the past as well among others.
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Thanks for sharing that Son of Cod.
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Its good that racism is being confronted in football more now but I hope other things aren't ignored as well. I know from training younger players in the past a bullying culture exists that's irrespective of race. We need to work on improving the whole . Craig Bellamy and Luke Chadwick have alluded to this in the past as well among others.
You have to see the irony in Craig Bellamy calling out bullying. What a nasty little ar*e wipe he was/is (I don't know him, he may have changed).
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You have to see the irony in Craig Bellamy calling out bullying. What a nasty little ar*e wipe he was/is (I don't know him, he may have changed).
Or perhaps the unnecessary bullying that exists within the game at younger levels helped him on his was to being a male private...
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You have to see the irony in Craig Bellamy calling out bullying. What a nasty little ar*e wipe he was/is (I don't know him, he may have changed).
Hope so Bobby. Great little player though. At least he called bullying out though. Bullying in its various guises in football circles like life can damage some deeply on a emotional level which affect some people throughout life.
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Could be wrong but wasn’t Bellamy implicated as part of a bully investigation, when he was at Cardiff?
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Could be wrong but wasn’t Bellamy implicated as part of a bully investigation, when he was at Cardiff?
Yes sadly.
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