Racism and bigotry in soccer probably never went away. They’ve just been hiding under a slime-plated stone, waiting for the right political climate to crawl out and show us again that, if you dropyour guard for five minutes, ignorance will thrive again like bacteria in a neglected wound. Meanwhile, soccer clubs and institutions continue reacting to bigots in such a spineless manner thatrecurrent incidents have become the guaranteed outcome.
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