I dont know if this has been mentioned on any thread recently, so apologies if it has, but I watched 'Fever Pitch the rise of the premier league on BBC iplayer recently, and the 2nd episode had on it when Eric Cantona drop kicked the Crystal Palace supporter who was giving him some abuse after he was sent off.
I didn't realise that Cantona had initially recieved a 2 week jail sentence which was overturned on appeal, but Les Ferdinand said that he thought that had it been a black player who did what Cantona had done, then he would have gone to prison, and he said he wasn't the only one who thought that.