Carol, the title which you refer to says it all “Football must act to avoid racism charge”, the racist chants are nothing compared to the 70′s, but because racism has such a high profile even if you get one idiot making chimp noises etc. it is blown out of all proportion as part of the race industry who are quite frankly looking for any racism to keep them in work apart from the problematic one of Muslims against Jews, because it is freedom of religion. So its easy publicity and keeps the racism merchants happy…
“Racist taunts of black players and violence amongst young men at football matches is showing worrying increases compared to recent low levels” would have been better.
I value your views, I left the UK in 1999, before the Labour party really got stuck in with change, but visit often on business and visiting so can see and speak to friends and family and business contacts who all give me the same sense of malaise.
Mary, I have been reading your articles for some time at New England Review, I am British and as far as I am concerned she is right in terms of her article, the racism part is overblown because of the reasons I put forward, but you cannot deny that basic standards of deceny have got worse over the years and Brand and Ross are a high profile example of that. But to call someone a liar or stupid when someone is expressing her view on what she has seen or feels is not what I would have expected from you. You may have taken it as being offensive and a bit sensationalist but the basic truth in the article cannot be denied.
As for this troll Westlake, he seems to think that one error of perception can make null and void the main point of the article, that is stupid.
