Timid ref given opportunity to punish home fans
Ahead of tonight’s match at Vicente Calderón Stadium, Danish referee Claus Bo Larsen has been encouraged by UEFA to call the game to a halt if the racist abuse that blighted Atletico Madrid’s last European home game [...]
Read moreNew spot to air during Champions league games
Any doubt that there is still a racism problem in Europe was confirmed by Emile Heskey’s treatment in Zagreb on Wedensday, and UEFA have now [...]
Read moreSo much insensitivity, so little time…
Spain’s Olympic basketball and tennis teams are no strangers to pulling offensive gestures for the camera, and Argentina’s ladies football team have now contributed to the International Athletes’ Photobook of ‘Slit-Eye’ Face-Pulling.
The [...]
Read morePlease guys, you’re just embarrassing yourselves
A few days ago, Spain’s Basketball team highlighted their nation’s ‘poor record for racial sensitivity’ by posing with slit-eye gestures for an advert in a Spanish newspaper. Yesterday, Jose Calderon told us the [...]
Read moreOffensive photo was “appropriate”, says Olympian
You folks out there in interwebland have been going batshit crazy for the story about Spain’s ‘Chinese wink’ team photo (300+ comments so far), and it seems most of you have been waiting for an [...]
Read moreBasketball team find subtle way to offend their hosts
Spain (the country whose national manager referred to Thierry Henry as a ‘black shit’, whose fans greeted the England team with monkey chants and whose Formula One supporters found their own special way of [...]
Read moreThe north/ further north divide in France has never been more apparent
Everyone in the UK has been getting their knickers in a twist about the lack of respect [...]
Read moreRichard Williams conquers prejudice with even more prejudice
Richard Williams, a man famous only for producing two talented daughters, was deemed worthy of interview last week. The old timer used it as an opportunity to thoroughly embarrass his offspring:
Tennis is a prejudice game. Well, I’m Black [...]
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