Former English captain John Terry is the one figure who got maximum publicity from his act of racial abuse against QPR defender Anton Ferdinand last year. He had to forgo his captaincy along with four matches’ suspension. Though, he was later cleared by Westminster Magistrates Court, but English FA did not forgive him and continued his four matches’ domestic ban. Terry, who retired from international soccer last September, still remembers the trauma he had to face coz of an unjustified ban imposed by English FA. Now, when Bernstein met with Terry along with other Chelsea players, he clearly snubbed his handshake with him without saying anything. This is something which got media attention and brings him in the news for his brave act of retaliation against a notable soccer personality. He later confirmed the reason for refusing handshake with the chairman by saying; he was the same man who played an important role in removing him from captainship. He gave an interview to a new source … [Read more...]
Now racial abandonments to be decided by ground security in Italy
Last week, everyone saw how Real Madrid walked out of the game citing continuous racial chanting coming from the ground. This incident was an eye opener for soccer think tanks, especially for government who took this incident more seriously than English FA. Racism has always been a part of soccer games but on English soil, it was probably the first incident where something like this happened in a European country. There were many different reactions from soccer fraternity after the incident, and prominently, a war of words has been started between Madrid owner and FIFA president coz both of them seemed to have a different opinion about Madrid’s walkout. Whereas Madrid boss has had a view that his team was right to walk off, FIFA president seemed to be in favor of finding more concrete solutions rather just leaving the ground. Now, Italian lawmakers have enacted a new rule whereby no team or player can decide to leave the ground on their own if there is a racial abusing on the … [Read more...]
English FA to Introduce Education to Eradicate Racism
If you are a close follower of English soccer, you would have a known to almost tens of different ways suggested by many legendry soccer officials, ex-players, and clubs to counter racism, but none of them seems to be perfect to English FA, hence they are now trying to introduce a compulsory educational program to be participated by every professional football player, club official, and all foreign players who play in various English leagues. The objective is simple, to make them aware of all the possible effects of using or saying anything not permitted on English soil. Last few months brought English soccer at a place where everyone is presuming that racism cannot be eradicated from the system. While, on the other side, according to many legendry soccer pros, educational system will also not work coz they are not teenagers who don’t know anything; perhaps they are very much professionals who understand the impact of ‘certain words’ in a crucial time. For the time being, compulsory … [Read more...]