Palace boss: Racism is totally unacceptable - FIFA must toughen up now
PALACE boss Ian Holloway believes until FIFA start acting tough on racism, it will never be a serious issue for them.
The Eagles manager has his first exclusive column in Friday's Croydon Advertiser, and he talks in-depth about one of the hottest topics in the game today on the back of the incident involving AC Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng last week.
"Being human is caring for other people and I think racism is totally unacceptable in today's world," he told Advertiser Sport.
"For anyone victimised or picked upon because of the colour of their skin – it's absolute nonsense.
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"One of the worst ones I've seen for years was the England U21s playing in Serbia, and I think the sanction put on Serbia, a country with a proven track record of racism, was an absolute disgrace.
"I'm pretty disgusted in the whole of society if we keep making excuses for the people to be able to do this. I don't think there should any room for excuses in this world at the moment.
"Until the people at the top get serious about it and see it as a serious issue, nothing will never happen I'm afraid."
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For Holloway's first full-page column, where he also talks about his progress in the transfer market at the moment, his thoughts on heading to Burnley on Saturday and goalkeeper Lewis Price, do not miss tomorrow's Croydon Advertiser.
Furthermore, he reveals that a club lower down in the Football League came in for three of his players on loan earlier this week.
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Comments
by nicecityboy
Friday, January 11 2013, 9:54AM
“Jackanory, Is Peter Stone the guy who comes on here and used to stick up for Freedman at all costs? What racist comment has he made on here?”
by OAPeagle
Friday, January 11 2013, 9:35AM
“Until the limp wristed FIFA and Uefa start banning clubs and countries from international
games then I'm afraid nothing will happen. Both organisations seem to live in the dark ages.”
by frankbromley
Thursday, January 10 2013, 8:43PM
“Jackanory,
Potty Petetheeagle said he will not comment on Racism in Football or on this site, he also says Women should not be allowed to comment on here, they should not be allowed to watch football on tv, unless they are watching it in the kitchen whilst washing the dishes.
Peter is away at the moment in the States, he is the leader of the newly formed London KKK & getting ideas from the Klan in America.
Peter`s hero`s are Enoch Powell, Alf Garnet & John Terry.
Potty has asked, has Tunchev signed yet?”
by Jackanory
Thursday, January 10 2013, 5:29PM
“Totally agree, but i wonder what Peter `petetheeagle` Stone thinks about the RACISM in football & people being RACIST on sites like this?
Rambo has Tunchev signed yet???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????”