Half agree

I didn't watch much of the game (preferred the Wales one) but I heard the caravan chants clearly but not any booing. Take your word for it that it was loud though.

I wasn't making a point on degrees of racism just that the power relationship is an important factor. Difference between successful white banker being called honky/cracker and poor black unemployed kid being called a nigger.

At Chelsea we were booing Cole and Torres and Drogba but don't think it was racist (certainly not from me). Kick racism out of football doesn't mean banning booing black players, just booing them if they are black. Assuming Bulgaria were booing all of England's black players and they hadn't all somehow managed to piss off the crowd simultaneously (e.g. by diving) then that would be racist.

Posted By: Kangol Canary on September 5th 2011 at 13:55:42

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green and yellow. Cool. (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Sep 5, 11:56:54
- What fucked me off about all of that (NCFC) - Kangol Canary, Sep 5, 12:48:10
  - Ah, degrees of racism... (NCFC) - Dandy Highburyman, Sep 5, 13:17:23
    - UEFA said they would investigate it if they received complaints from Bulgaria, which they (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Sep 5, 15:55:53
      - would be a pretty ridiculous complaint (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 5, 16:18:57
    - Half agree (NCFC) - Kangol Canary, Sep 5, 13:55:42
      - It wasn't booing it was monkey chanting - very different thing altogether... (NCFC) - Dandy Highburyman, Sep 5, 14:29:08
      - torres is white... (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 5, 14:15:23
        
        Good spot (NCFC) - Kangol Canary, Sep 5, 14:21:19
        
        so why say you didn't think it was racist booing (NCFC) - SCC 28, Sep 5, 14:33:02
      - i didn't watch any of the game at all, but... there were monkey chants from what i've read (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Sep 5, 14:15:02
- (someone needs to alert Garry 3Rs to these, I'd have thought.) (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Sep 5, 11:59:50

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