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Reporting discriminative language

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juliogray said:
Was Sunday actually.

And to the lad saying it was a private conversation, I am sure no one wanted to listen but it was canny hard. On a lighter note, one of the blokes claims was he was the one who threw the beach ball for the Darren Bent goal.

They went for a pint on 30” and left the ground at 80” so not sure I would have been “grassing” a particularly loyal fan risking giving the whole club a bad name
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Pretty sure that came from the Liverpool end didn’t it

Edit - I see this has been covered
 

Vauxie said:
So if you didn't voice your opinion to him why cry on here?
Was the racism directed at you?
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Whats the likely consequence of calling out a racist at a match. It's a genuine question. In my opinion, there are a range of possible ways it could play out. I'll rule one out straight away...

The person bring called out will quickly apologise for their remark and recognise they shouldn't have said it.

After that it's any number of problematic outcomes.
 
I remember hearing about someone reporting a lad he didn't like for no reason and he was lifted out of his seat and hoyed down the tunnel. He wasn't seen until the last game of the season only he was wearing a deerstalker hat, comedy gegs and arrived on a segway.
 
Was at a match about 12 years ago or so with my wife who is mixed race. One of our fans called one of their black players a black bastard and my wife told him where to go, he told her to fuck off, nobody else sided with her or supported her. We told the stewards at half time and they made noises and looked apologetic but did nowt.

As I say thats 12 years ago. But Stewards have to be one of the most pointless and useless vacations in the country for all the good they do, wouldn't expect owt different now.

Call it out for what it is is the right thing to do but do so in the knowledge that most people, no matter how much they claim to hate racism, won't speak up for or side with you, it's a pretty lonely and scary experience publicly siding with a minority.
 
They'll send him a letter imo, or potentially ban him from the next game, although they might need proof and then it'll be his word against yours unless others are willing to come forward as witnesses.

It does make you wonder how people get like this and why some think it's normal. They can't blame their parents/upbringing as they should be old enough to come to their own conclusion that it's wrong and unacceptable by now.
 
sonson said:
Was at a match about 12 years ago or so with my wife who is mixed race. One of our fans called one of their black players a black bastard and my wife told him where to go, he told her to fuck off, nobody else sided with her or supported her. We told the stewards at half time and they made noises and looked apologetic but did nowt.

As I say thats 12 years ago. But Stewards have to be one of the most pointless and useless vacations in the country for all the good they do, wouldn't expect owt different now.

Call it out for what it is is the right thing to do but do so in the knowledge that most people, no matter how much they claim to hate racism, won't speak up for or side with you, it's a pretty lonely and scary experience publicly siding with a minority.
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Spot on. If people piled in en masses and told the racist to fck off home it'd eradicate it overnight. Nobody ever does though. I've not come across it often but when I've heard of others who have wen witnessed it the person calling out the behaviour usually ends up with nowhere to go apart from a physical confrontation which isn't ideal when you have kids with you or if you want to avoid a potential police matter. The stewards will never kick anyone out on an individual report of racist comments.
 
Vauxie said:
My experience is first hand bonny lad im married to an Asian and we are muslim.
One particular incident over in Poland among those racist bigoted fucks was a tad hairy and I didn't have time to phone a friend or post a friend.
If people aren't prepared to back up as the slogan goes ' lets kick it out' then they shouldn't cry about it.
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This is a proper weird view mind.

Literally none of it is relevant to the thread.
 
Just let people get on with it. They make themselves look a fool doing it and where do you draw the line ? Reporting a full away end for chanting you fat bastard?
 
juliogray said:
Has anyone ever had experience of how our stewards handle this?
Last thing I would want is passion to go from SOL stands but had some bloke around us chatting complete nonsense all game about what he got up to at the weekend. Hardly watching the game.
Then he made a racist comment when one of their lads went down injured saying he looked like he’d been shot then said “all the b****ies do”
Should have said something myself but he was a good foot taller and wider than me 😆 (no excuse I know)
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From personal experience after a fellow ‘fan’ racially abused a family member of mine, the immediate response of the stewards was very good. Took us away, asked what happened and then the offender was arrested by the police.

The club made initial contact, opened a case, got told ‘they’d come back to us’ and never heard anything more after that. This was in the League One years, so would like to think the staff management after the fact is a bit better now.
 
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Never experienced this home or away at Swindon for a considerable time thankfully.
Recall the last experience with the lad who shouted it get set on by all around him, Loads of verbal telling him to fuck off and referring to never support the Club again etc.
Is it worse up North?
Not seen it. Mind you Swindon always support taking the knee home and away.

Sadly we have our share of twats mind that cause trouble.
 
juliogray said:
Was Sunday actually.

And to the lad saying it was a private conversation, I am sure no one wanted to listen but it was canny hard. On a lighter note, one of the blokes claims was he was the one who threw the beach ball for the Darren Bent goal.

They went for a pint on 30” and left the ground at 80” so not sure I would have been “grassing” a particularly loyal fan risking giving the whole club a bad name
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Hmmmm....really? First post on here about some of our supporters being racist...
 
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