Comments on: Now Dani Alves is the subject of racial abuse

By: geojock

geojock — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:53:57 +0000

Clever little play of words there, but what exactly do you mean? Are you implying that Americans are covert racist instead of overt racist? Does that mean that you think that Euros are overt racist, but not covert racist? Not too clever if that is what you think. If that is NOT what you think then it defeats your other argument because if Americans = covert racist and Euros = covert & overt racist then Americans > Euros. All of this of course is assuming that all this rampant overt racism is going on in America which I don’t believe. But I don’t have a American guilt complex that forces me to hate this great nation.

By: seanb20124

seanb20124 — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:17:12 +0000

He should sue!

By: cktai

cktai — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:39:26 +0000

The main difference is the composition of football crowds.

Over here in Europe, many of the hardcore supporter groups are disenfranchised radicalized young men who see sports as a way to express their hatred in an anonymous manner. Many of these men are fairly normal well-behaved in their usual social settings, but the anonymity of a large vocal testosterone filled group will turn them into gibbering morons. The behavior of football crowds does not even remotely reflect European society as a whole, or even the crowd of other sports.

Although in the case of Den Bosch, it were not the hardcore fans that misbehaved, but the fans that only show up for big games such as the cup game against AZ. People that look for opportunity to misbehave under the pretense of supporting a football club.

By: krimsonyx

krimsonyx — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:50:18 +0000

We Americans try to act like we’re better than Europeans in this aspect, but we’re not. The difference is that their racism is overt. Our racism is covert.

By: surly1n1nd1anapol1s

surly1n1nd1anapol1s — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:32:55 +0000

Sadly expect this to continue and grow given the economic conditions to worsen.

By: charliej11

charliej11 — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:16:31 +0000

To all the morons out there from Russia to Spain and beyond making these stories possible:

Happy Jackie Robinson’s Birthday !
From the land that for the most part figured out you are idiots even to other idiots.