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WE MUST TAKE A STAND AGAINST RACISM – AGAIN!

by
The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 October 2019

STEP BACK IN TIME: Bulgaria fans left a bad taste in the mouth on Monday night
PICTURE: PA Images

ON Monday we saw the ugly face of racism in Bulgaria. I loved the England team’s reaction to the monkey chants. Firstly, they followed the ridiculous protocols that UEFA and FIFA have laid out: they are useless.
This week, they fined Lazio a pitiful 20,000 Euros for racial abuse during the Rennes game, but the only effective way to stop this behaviour is by chucking teams out of competitions. Fans would soon be policing their own crowds to make sure it didn’t happen again. Or ...

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