Posted on 10/15/2019 6:57:38 AM PDT by C19fan
England's black players who were targeted with vile racist abuse tonight silenced Bulgarian fans with a 6-0 rout in a game which was halted twice by the referee because of the chants.
Marcus Rashford and Raheem Sterling scored while Tyrone Mings enjoyed a fine debut in defence, despite all three being the subject of jeering, monkey chants and Nazi salutes from the home fans.
After the Bulgarian FA rubbishing Gareth Southgate's concerns about racism before the Euro 2020 qualifier tonight, it took only 30 minutes for official Ivan Bebel to stop the game after being alerted by Mings about the abuse.
The referee implemented the first of UEFA's three-step protocol, involving a statement being read out over the PA system requesting supporters stop their behaviour. There was later another stoppage moments before half-time, but the referees and players decided to play on for the rest of the half in spite of the ugly chanting.
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“monkey chants and Nazi salutes”
Idiots
.……..damn, I didn’t know this kind of bs still went on!
Bulgaria is not doing itself any favors by not coming down hard on this type behavior.
The media tells us only White American men can be racist.
“I always scratch my head when I see Slavic people doing the Nazi salute. “
It’s a Roman salute.
Bulgaria doesn’t have many black people in it so they haven’t had to grapple with racism because there aren’t any ethnic minorities to abuse so they genuinely don’t understand how wrong what they are doing is.
I know a Bulgarian expat.
He said that there were 7 million people in the country when the Iron Curtain fell, and one million of them left over the following several years (including himself).
They have since been replaced by people from other less well-off countries who have migrated there. He said that this is indeed a cultural shock as Bulgaria had never experienced any sort of mass immigration before.
I was in Thermopolis, Wyoming a couple of months back and came out of a coffee shop across the street from an old building that had a band of Swastikas around the middle .
“Bulgaria doesn’t have many black people in it so they haven’t had to grapple with racism because there aren’t any ethnic minorities to abuse so they genuinely don’t understand how wrong what they are doing is.”
That says they live in caves and TV is not global today. Wrong. Too many Bulgarians are just stupid.
I’m sure a pre-1930s building. Before then swastikas were Greek, Native American, or Hindu symbols.
“I’m sure a pre-1930s building. Before then swastikas were Greek, Native American, or Hindu symbols.”
Being Wyoming, I’m thinking Native American.
I guess Bulgaria could also import football players from the 3rd World (like pretty much all of Western Europe does now), but they choose not too. Not a whole lot different than having men play women’s sports, in my opinion (in other words, a ‘women’s team’ should be composed of women, just as a ‘British team’ should be composed of Brits.
Even so, it still doesn’t make it right for their fans to abuse these players. It’s really not their fault.
good points, thanks
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