Easy enough to ascertain if it's someone from another club. If they do it then the club they support gets the punishment. Prison times should also obviously be part of it but the problem in football is the pack mentality so a couple start it and then it just becomes a chant, half the crowd might even not know that a monkey noise, for instance, is racist. If the club was due a massive punishment when it occurs then if any idiot started you'd expect fans around to shut them up and get them kicked out immediately. Self policing of it needs to be encouraged.Don't punish the club or idiots will be doing it at rival teams. Punish the idiots doing it with proper convictions and custodial sentences. You couldn't get away with it on the streets and it should be no different in football grounds. Plenty of CCTV but other fans need to take a stance and plenty around will have heard. Long custodials and it will stop in a heartbeat. More importantly though, what kind of moron is still doing it in 2019? Education needs to play a key part too.
I saw someone do it at HR when I was a kid and didn't have a clue. Luckily I didn't join in.Anyone who doesn't know a monkey noise is racist must have been living in a cave!
That's the sort of thing I'm on about, if someone next to you starts it tell them to shut up, if it kicks off go get a steward, if you don't feel safe then text a twat. More likely to happen if you were going to see a 15 point deduction or something if it doesn't stop.It is OK saying to self police but what do they want to happen? Should other fans be expected to jump in and make it stop or is it down to the stewards? If it's an instant ban for violence at a football match is that going to put somebody off confronting a bellend monkey chanting in case it kicks off and they get banned?
How can it be reported instantly? Do they still do the text thing so you can report somebody being a twat?
That's the sort of thing I'm on about, if someone next to you starts it tell them to shut up, if it kicks off go get a steward, if you don't feel safe then text a twat. More likely to happen if you were going to see a 15 point deduction or something if it doesn't stop.
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