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It seems hard to believe that in
this day and age we are still struggling with issues of racism; however just
last weekend Danny Rose was subject to racial abuse on the pitch during an
England v Montenegro Euro 2020 qualifier. Naturally, the left back is not
impressed and has now stated that he cannot wait to leave the game forever,
despite having 5 or 6 years left in his career.
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that is now giving the great game a bad reputation as well as upsetting
players.
Playing for both England and Tottenham, Rose has built a
stellar reputation, and without a doubt he is contributory to their strong
table placing this season. However, for some reason, he has been plagued by
racial abuse at various points in his career. In 2012 playing with England
Under-21s, monkey chants were heard as he came on the pitch and he was pelted
with stone when collecting the ball for a throw-in. It seems ridiculous that in
2019 we are still struggling with racism in football and as Rose himself has
said the reaction from the top has been less than supporting with flimsy
punishments that do not actually tackle the problem.
Speaking to the
press, he said “I’ve had enough. At the minute, how I programme
myself is that I just think: ‘I’ve got five or six more years left in
football and I just can’t wait to see the back of it.’ Seeing how
things are done in the game at the minute … It’s just –
whatever, isn’t it? I just want to get out of it. That’s how I feel.
I feel I’ve got five or six more years left and I just want to enjoy
football as much as I can. There is so much politics and whatever in football
and I just can’t wait to see the back of it, to be
honest.”
While acknowledging that sometimes there are slightly
harsher punishments, for example, Serbia was fined £80000, an amount Rose
feels is something that they could spend in a night out, and their next match
was played behind closed doors with no fans present, he thinks that generally
there is not enough stamping out of the behaviour. Recently his manager
received a two-match ban after an altercation with a referee, which was nothing
to do with racism, and he feels that this is taken more seriously than the
awful racial taunts he has to put up with.
In the match against
Montenegro, it was not just Rose that was abused but teammates Raheem Sterling
and Callum Hudson-Odoi as well. UEFA have said that if they find Montenegro
guilty, they will face a partial closure of their stadium which seems rather
mild for a club that is not prepared to take responsibility for the behaviour
of its fans. Perhaps more clubs should take a leaf out of Brighton’s book
as they actively seek to ban fans that do not behave well at the game.
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