Originally Posted By: Yogi Barrabbas
Racism is still rife in soccer in mainland Europe, an awful thing in this day and age. Eastern Europe especially, but in Spain at the weekend, Dani Alves, a black Brazilian who plays for the mighty Barcelona was pelted with bananas whilst taking a corner!!!! Absolutely shocking. What is the matter with these people???


read about that....it was allegedly a publicity stunt of some sort...but like you said...real incidents like that happen quite a bit in eastern europe,and Spain. Italy also.

On a related note...Boston Bruins fans flooded social media with racist nonsense after a Black opposing player scored winning goal in overtime of a playoff hockey game.

here's a link from local Boston media

http://bostonherald.com/sports/bruins_nhl/bruins_insider/2014/05/bruins_react_to_racist_tweets