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TIL that European football fans used to throw bananas onto the field to taunt players of African descent.
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Used to?
I saw Chelsea fans do that to their own player once.
Paul Cannonville it was. As he ran down the wing a large minority stood and abused him. Monkey chants, Nazi salutes and a banana.
Chelsea is still home to football facism in UK.
In those days national front literature was for sale outside the ground too.
Was the worst racism I ever saw at a ground. We had tickets with home fans and were silent for 90 minutes
British and european soccer lmao.
Seriosuly tho, racism in football is a big problem here, it gets better but it is still an issue
That…is fucked up.
“used to”. It still happens, and not just in Europe.
It’s very odd to just say “European football fans” instead of “some hardcore factions” or other. It’s such a strange wording. I’ve been to plenty of matches and I’ve never brought bananas or seen others throw them. There’s been plenty of cases of domestic abuse in the NFL but you wouldn’t say “TIL that NFL players used to beat their wives and girlfriends,,,” would you?
Used too? Lol happens still.
For everyone that loves to hate on British fans and hates reading articles; this is principally about *England players* receiving abuse from *opposition fans*, in particular Montenegro.
There’s also mention of Moise Kean in Italy and, bizarrely, Wymeswold FC, which is a minuscule English club.
With very little effort I’m sure the journalist could have found much more prominent and relevant instances of British fans hurling racist abuse at players, as it definitely happens; but this is a pretty lazily researched article.
Some fans still do on occasion!
I heard somewhere that not counting the points that black players score is a thing too.
Fucking Americans.
Edit: I forgot I was on Reddit. Fucking Europeans.