Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
Enough of EUFA and FIFA claiming they couldn’t hear it or be sure who it was aimed at FFS 😤😤

Stadium closures and fines are absolutely pointless, it’s time to hit these openly racist and homophobic countries in the way it’ll hurt them the most.

An immediate expulsion from this WC qualifying tournament and a ban from the next Euros in 2024.

No possibility of qualifying for a major tournament until WC 2026.

If they transgress again then another immediate ban of four years.

When our domestic fans were causing aggro at European matches in the 80’s we were banned from European competition for our club sides for five years.

How come it’s always the English that get the boot put into them, these European countries constantly get away with abhorrent behaviour!?

On a side note.

I do wonder about the common sense of our players and the team management though.

Tonight wasn’t the night for Sterling to be wandering over towards the Hungarian Ultra’s in a goal celebration and raising his shirt in tribute to a dead friend.

Although doing such celebrations should be okay there are clearly certain countries where a black person doing such a thing is just going to cause things to kick off.

Young Jude Bellingham then ended up copping it from their scum when he warmed up.

Sterling would’ve been better served making a prayer gesture in tribute to his friend in a more personal and reflective type of celebration.

A long ban for the Hungarian scum and a bit more thought and common sense from players and those managing them wouldn’t go amiss.


Totally agree and any form of abuse is totally unacceptable. Why would Sterling antagonize the crowd though? Surely when Ireland were booed for taking the knee - why did the England players do it? Why do the England players even take the knee when most of the EU teams in the Euros did not?

Should somebody draw a picture for Southgate, the England team, and FA - taking the knee is actually inflaming the situation and not reducing racial discrimination! Some black players have been intelligent enough to figure this out and would prefer to do their own thing.

Far more should be done to fight against racism ( signs/billboards/communities/closed stadiums ) but surely taking the knee and black players running to the crowd of known racists is taking everything they are trying to achieve backwards!