Racism in French football

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Sources claimed Blanc cited current world champions Spain, saying: "The Spanish, they say: 'We don't have a problem. We have no blacks.'"

OK let's just pretend he didn't say anything at all, denounce the topic, and get back to abusing whichever posters take our fancy this week.

[Rag_hater]

From what I have seen here in Spain they are racist towards blacks from Africa and Moroccans.I think they think their country is being flooded by people from over there.Like the Brits have a paranoia about the channel tunnel the Spanish patrol the Med in an effort to stop people swimming over or coming in boats.I think all of mainland Europe has a problem thinking they are being swamped with illegals from Africa.Countries like Spain and France seem to be particularly paranoid.
The attack on the character of France's North and sub-Saharan African athletes has been a favorite theme of the French extreme right for years. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic founder of the racist Front National, declared in 1996 that the French national soccer team was unacceptable on patriotic grounds because of the number of "foreigners" -- i.e., nonwhite citizens -- who had been selected to represent France. Some players' refusal to sing the national anthem became a sore point that persists to this day.Anelka comes to mind.
This latest go by the French seems to me something that has been there for ages

[CityGer]

Sources claimed Blanc cited current world champions Spain, saying: "The Spanish, they say: 'We don't have a problem. We have no blacks.'"

OK let's just pretend he didn't say anything at all, denounce the topic, and get back to abusing whichever posters take our fancy this week.

Ah, sources claim.

Yeah, I can just imagine Blanc saying that.

[Dameerto]

From what I have seen here in Spain they are racist towards blacks from Africa and Moroccans.I think they think their country is being flooded by people from over there.Like the Brits have a paranoia about the channel tunnel the Spanish patrol the Med in an effort to stop people swimming over or coming in boats.I think all of mainland Europe has a problem thinking they are being swamped with illegals from Africa.Countries like Spain and France seem to be particularly paranoid.
The attack on the character of France's North and sub-Saharan African athletes has been a favorite theme of the French extreme right for years. Jean-Marie Le Pen, the anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic founder of the racist Front National, declared in 1996 that the French national soccer team was unacceptable on patriotic grounds because of the number of "foreigners" -- i.e., nonwhite citizens -- who had been selected to represent France. Some players' refusal to sing the national anthem became a sore point that persists to this day.Anelka comes to mind.
This latest go by the French seems to me something that has been there for ages

In the 90's I spent some time in one of the two Spanish enclaves in North Africa - Moroccans didn't even need a passport at the border to enter, and were on Spanish soil. Things might have changed in twenty years though, but a Moroccan I spoke to while there told me if they wanted to get to Spain they could do it by stowing away in a lorry as it crossed by ferry to Malaga. What you see as paranoia others might see as legitimate concerns.

[paulmclaren]

Alls it boils down to 'once again' is one single word 'RACISM'.

[aaron bond]

Alls it boils down to 'once again' is one single word 'RACISM'.

That's right up your street then I suppose...

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[Redna]

It's not sane to eat snails is it? ;)