Absolutely no room for racism on any level at any occasion, I don't know the facts of this incident, however.....this team have played the victim around racism before when we played them last season, stating that some of our boys racially slurred their players. It didn't happen and was a joke considering half our team are of African descent themselves.
I support their stance on racism but do wonder if this has been exaggerated based on previous experience.
So while at training 2nite my boys refreshed my memory and infact that not only did we NOT use racial slurs as accused but it was they who racially abused our players!!!
So sorry seatoun as far as im concerned you can get off your high horses and eat s&£t!!!
"Nothing to see here" "It wasn't us, it was them"
Some pretty average comments/attitudes on this thread. For my part, the headlines this morning (http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/8926519/Investigation-into-racism-in-Wellingtons-football-clubs) are fantastic news. This focusses on the bigger picture, rather than the "if they're doing it as well, then what's the the problem" attitude of some punters.
There is a problem. Hopefully this will go some way to facilitating a solution.
As for Capital Football, perhaps they should have lead with this before getting into a "he said/she said" with the Dim Post. Richard Reid needs some decent PR advice.
I agree. What's needed here is a serious attempt to stamp out (or perhaps more realistically, mitigate) this crap right across the game, and a wider culture of abuse in general. Just keep your shit under control people! Seatoun have done a great job drawing attention to this but a public bun-fight with Lower Hutt about exactly who said what in one particular game risks undermining that.
CF possibly should have been aware of these type of issues in the game before now but good to see them tackling it from a big picture perspective now. Education is what will fix this.