Posted by: passinthru November 18, 2004
Racism in football
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Now it's the spaniards turn.... And the midfielder says "something has to be done" after monkey chants were aimed at himself, Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright-Phillips in Madrid. "It was not nice to hear such chants going on," he said. "It was very ignorant and wrong. It was disgraceful. "Ashley is very upset, he was not happy about the abuse he got." He added: "That was the worst I have ever experienced. I have encountered it before when playing for Newcastle in Europe but against Spain was the worst. "Something has to be done or else it will continue to happen. It has to stop somewhere. continued at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/internationals/4022489.stm And this happened in a friendly game.
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