Kevin Prince Boateng stops friendly after racist abuse.

[Brennan]

Precisely. He thinks he shouldn't have walked off. So do I.

It was a small section of the crowd, and at the end of the day, its words. Get on with it, let the referee know, and then let the police deal with it afterwards.

Racism is of course wrong, but it doesn't give people the right to act unprofessionaly or with violence- as some people seem to think it does. It will get sorted out when the victims stop reacting to it. Its what racists want. As I said, let the referee know, he'll put it in his report and then if its serious the police can get involved.

I bet Boateng wouldn't have walked off if it had have been homophobic abuse put it that way.

That certainly worked with women's rights. And slavery. And racial segregation in America. OH WAIT !

They let the police 'sort it out', and next time there will just be another group there doing the same thing. The police can't just arrest dozens of people, they'd have no real proof who was and wasn't involved in a crowd situation. It may be different at a game with cameras watching every section of the crowd, but even then people get away with murder at football grounds.

 

[Brownie]

I think it does give you the right to act unprofessionally. Just because you're doing a job doesn't mean you have to put up with anything and everything. If something's happening in your place of work that you think's wrong, it's perfectly reasonable to expect either your employer or the governing bodies to do something about it that prevents it happening. If they can't, or don't, then they're failing to provide adequate working conditions. The footballers can afford to take the moral high ground so they're well placed to set an example, I'm sure many more people would walk out if they could afford the consequences.

Also one of the main ideas behind abandoning the game is to put pressure on the abusers from the rest of the crowd. It's the 'ruined it for everyone' ploy, the majority of people that have paid to watch the game will direct their anger at a very small number of people. It makes it more something to be actively opposed rather than just a nuisance that will hopefully be swept away. Threatening people with social ostracism in addition to punishment by law is a lot more powerful a deterrent than the latter on its own.

 

[bignev23]

Fair play to Kevin, he did the exact right thing to do. End of the day its racism in the workplace, just not going to fly any more. Argument that it hurts the majority of fans who paid good money to see a game. Well shucks guys but its not that much a compelling point compared to one human being getting abused by others in front of thousands.

Who knows, maybe this kinda of action would promote some self-policing of the fans, so the majority tell the idiot minority to shut up, instead of just watching on. Also if racism is actually resulting in games being abandoned maybe the football governing bodies might be a little bit more hard on coming down on it.

It was brave of Kevin to do that, I'll buy him a beer if I see him in a bar, but only assuming he'd buy 10 in return....he is a footballer afterall.

Pay me his wages and I`d be happy to let people call me anything they want. Not saying he should but i would.

 

[Clint Planet]

That certainly worked with women's rights. And slavery. And racial segregation in America. OH WAIT !

That's the trouble with victims. They're always complaining.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I know it was a friendly but if I had gone to a game, paid £35 for the ticket, parking, programme etc and the players walked off because of as small minority id be pissed off. The cost of going to the game for the many fans hits them hard in the wallet, we're not on £20k+ a week, i'm not condoning racism, but it can be dealt with by the police after the game.

A little respect for the majority of fans.

Shouldn't the majority of fans turn their aggression to the racist jerks among them and not the players though? I can't talk mind. I remember being at the QPR game this season where someone where I was sitting called a QPR player a racist name. We all squirmed in our seats for a few seconds and then got on with it. I was mortified as this was one of the rare games my mum went to with me (Yes, I'm a saddo who sometimes goes to the footie with him mum. Have a good laugh). I should have really challenged this knob but I didn't. Maybe if this happens more myself and the other fans around me will start doing something about these racist tards?

 

[sbbefc]

Shouldn't the majority of fans turn their aggression to the racist jerks among them and not the players though? I can't talk mind. I remember being at the QPR game this season where someone where I was sitting called a QPR player a racist name. We all squirmed in our seats for a few seconds and then got on with it. I was mortified as this was one of the rare games my mum went to with me (Yes, I'm a saddo who sometimes goes to the footie with him mum. Have a good laugh). I should have really challenged this knob but I didn't. Maybe if this happens more myself and the other fans around me will start doing something about these racist tards?

I dont think its healthy for fans to turn on fans, you dont know what could happen, people turn up to the game pissed up and on allsorts.

 

[Clint Planet]

I dont think its healthy for fans to turn on fans, you dont know what could happen, people turn up to the game pissed up and on allsorts.

It's a good point but the point remains that decent people need to stand together and make it as clear as possible that it is no longer acceptable. Excusing it with "Them Milwall fans are well worse, lad" or "I get racist abuse off black guys when I play" or even "There's bound to be a few morons who are like that" isn't good enough and it certainly doesn't make it go away. Far from it, in fact. To expect black players to just put up with it and shrug it off ("Sticks and stones my break my bones?" Oh do [Poor language removed] off) and get on with it "or else the racists have won" is insulting and demeaning to them.

I'm sure KPB is not about to advocate that every time someone shouts racist abuse the game should be abandoned. He just made a stand in a particular situation. His message is "Not enough is being done about this. Things need to change."

The question is, do you agree with him? Do you support him?

Or do you think he should just belt up and get on with it, the big, soft, overpaid get?

 

[ijjysmith]

I'd take KPB at Everton

 

[TX Bill]

I think the Pro Patria supporters who were not using racial slurs should have gone over and beaten the living s.h.i.t. out of those who were.

You think anyone would pipe up with racial slurs after that? Or would they keep their mouths shut for fear of getting the crap kicked out of them.

That's how you deal with that sort of scum.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

I'd take KPB at Everton

Sure we tried to sign him before he left Portsmouth for Milan, can't understand why..

 

[JamesEFC]

I'd take KPB at Everton

Without a doubt!