A recent BBC report painted Polish football as unrelentingly grim, violent and racist. Whilst there remains unacceptable behaviour that needs to be eradicated, Polish fan Michal Karaś argues the report exaggerates the issue.
Continuing the discussion on this and other blogs over racism in Italian football, we welcome Supriya Nair — aka Roswitha from the excellent blog Treasons, Strategems & Spoils — who considers what it will take for a real stand to be made against it.
Why does racism persist as such a serious problem in Italian football? Our Rome-based writer, Vanda Wilcox, considers its context in Italian society and looks at possible solutions.
According to the Moscow Times, “Sixty-three football fans aged 13 to 16 were briefly detained last weekend amid drunken clashes that left a dark-skinned man dead and two others injured.” The dead man was Sergei Nikolayev, from Siberia.
The violence came after Spartak Moscow’s win over FK Moscow, but far from the stadium, and the catalyst […]
