English soccer has been blighted by racism but also leads the charge against it

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Following England’s loss in the 2021 Euros, Bukayo Saka and his teammates are continuing a storied soccer tradition: using the game’s unique hold on the national psyche as a conduit for racial discussion and even progress.

, what followed was not just the latest chapter of the country's 55-year tale of sporting heartbreak, but also a grim echo of what its Black stars had endured decades before.— a modern outlet for the kind of racial abuse that saw trailblazing Black stars regularly pelted with actual bananas and harangued with monkey chants during the game's bigoted nadir of the 1980s.

, some experts say, he and his teammates are continuing another storied soccer tradition: using the game's unique hold on the national psyche as a conduit for racial discussion and even progress. "There's an irony that so much of our debate around race in Britain is via the medium of football," said Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a think tank covering immigration and identity."It's probably the sphere of our society that has been most organized in challenging racism, partly because it was associated with the most vocal, extreme racism in the '70s and '80s.

A mural in Manchester was created to support of the three England footballers Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, who missed penalties against Italy in the Euro 2020 final.A Facebook spokesperson said in an email that it uses"technology to help us review and remove harmful content" on Instagram, and that it had quickly removed messages and accounts directing abuse at the players.

Marcus Rashford was also abused online after missing a penalty, and a mural of his face in his hometown of Manchester was defaced with graffiti. But in the days afterward, hundreds of fans flocked to the mural, taking the knee and leaving messages of support in a bid to show the vandals are firmly in the minority.

 

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Is there anything in the world you won’t spin as racist? Soccer is a world sport that unites people of all nations, races, and cultures. Lots of rivalries and emotions involved in this beautiful sport, but thankfully they don’t revolve around racial hate. Don’t ruin this.

I am glad the english football team lost.... the current english football team is the New Cameroon football team...

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