Racial abuses are raining everywhere, but this time; a teenager or rather an adolescent has been accused of abusing racially to Bolton striker Marvin Sordell during a match played on Oct 6 between Millwall football club and Bolton Wanderers. The incident came in the highlight in just one week after English captain John Terry was banned by English FA for using racially abusive language towards Anton Ferdinand in a premier league match last year. On receiving the complaint of such an incident again on English soil, both clubs took action immediately and started their respective investigations, and now, a final decision has been announced by Millwall football club. Since, the accused is just a minor and already given a written apology from his side, Millwall football club did not ban him for life but indefinitely. Moreover, he can also be a part of “Millwall for All” educational program. It was declared by Millwill in a statement where they said, “[he can be a part of] one of our education programmes, run by Millwall for All (formerly the Millwall Anti-Racism Trust) in the hope that we can change his outlook on equality, racism and life in general.”
This is not just one case of racial abuses faced by Sordell, who was the member of English national soccer team played in London Olympic. According to him; he and other teammates were subjected to many such kinds of incidents but no one did anything. Now, a teenager is doing the same then how can they assume something like this will not happen again. Citing his views, Sordell tweeted, “Putting the match aside, its 2012 in england and people are still shouting racial abuse at a football game!? #Shocking. Chungy, Pratts, Benik and i had all sorts of things said to us. The police were standing yards away and did nothing…”
His words speak louder than expected and show how deeply racial dissimilarities have entered in English soccer. Apparently, all racial accused are being punished by FA very strictly, but is this enough? What about the ground realities of these abuses? No one has the answer, but it seems, punishing a teenage boy will not solve the problem; there should be an inside willingness to eradicate this demon from its roots. Anyways, let’s see how FA ensures that there will not be a similar case again or at least in a near future.