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| John Obi Mikel, apologising at a press conference for his mistake which made Juventus equalise. (www.dailymail.co.uk) |
Racism in football is unacceptable
Chelsea has informed the police about the unpleasant nature of treatment Obi experienced on Twitter. "We have informed the police and support taking the strongest possible action," a Chelsea statement read. At a press conference held by Chelsea, John Mikel apologised for his careless mistake as he mentioned at the conference, "If I want to make up an excuse, I can. But, for me, I gave the ball away. I put my hands up, we move on. I'm sorry about the mistake, but there are no excuses." www.metro.co.ukThis is not the first time a British fans have used Twitter as a platform to attack its players for costing the team, as Chelsea left back was also attacked after missing a penalty for England in the shoot-out against Italy at Euro 2012 tournament. this behaviour does not do good for football as there has been a lot of campaigns against racism and football federations have been working hard to get rid of racism in football. Football is known to be a sport that unites people, therefor, this improper behaviour from football supporters damages the character of the sporting code.
Such behaviour is uncalled for, players will not play to the best of ther abilities because at the back of their heads they will fear making mistakes because their images will be damaged on social sites. Football fans should start behaving in an orderly manner.
ReplyDeletei agree with you, fans should be called to order as this behaviour is unacceptable
Deletewow i guess racism still does exist in this world...but such behaviour is unacceptable especially if a person is also being attacked through media platforms because they are ridiculing them.
ReplyDeleteit is only a few fans that do this and should be isolated from the rest of the football community
Deletecouldnt agree more.
DeleteSome football fans really do endeavour to constantly give the game a unsavory name with their profusely and inoporably bad antics. It is funny that racisim still exists in a sport in which the best player of all time is not white.
ReplyDeletethese football fans should be banned from social sites and attending matches
DeleteRacism is an ideollogy you cannot kill an ideology you can merely challenge it, I believe as a world wide community we are ignoring racism wherever we go and acting suprised when we see it.
ReplyDeleteRacially abused is all over the world, I think Mikel was threatened becuase of the results Chelsea got, what if it was a win non of this would have happen. Fans reacted emotionally than ractionally.
ReplyDeleteI think he took the right step bu deactivating his account.Hopefully he wiil improve his perfomance.
ReplyDeletesoccer is a beautiful sport so it should remain like this what is the point of this European teams to buy African players for their fans to abuse them its not a nice thing to do where is the fair play
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