Euro 2012: Theodor Gebre Selassie is already victim of racial abuse

Posted by on Jun 10, 2012

• Czech Republic’s black player abused by Russia fans • PFA chairman says players should leave pitch in protest England players would be well within their rights to walk off the pitch if they are racially abused at Euro 2012, the Professional Footballers’ Association chairman said on Sunday. Clarke Carlisle said he would want to walk off the pitch if he received a torrent of racial abuse and he hoped his team?mates would support him. Uefa, the governing body, has said players who walk off the pitch during the tournament in Ukraine and Poland in protest at racial abuse will be handed a yellow card. Carlisle said on BBC1′s Andrew Marr Show that on a visit to Poland last month he witnessed racial abuse and hooliganism in a league derby, having been told by the local police chief there had been no reported incidents in the past 16 months

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