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Turning a Blind Eye

Don McMahon

FIFA,EUFA, Some officials and some Turkish fans are racists, at least based on what I saw happening to Eboue in a Galatasary match recently.

Depressingly, few of us who work at the University of California were surprised by the fact thatdemonstrating students would be treated with such violence. A squad ofcolleagues affirmed that it was business as usual when they stood passive whileOfficer Pike calmly went about his task. UC Davis's Chancellor and its PoliceChief both reacted as if this were an unpleasant routine, until it became anews item.

Sepp. Again. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has offered some advice to players who fall victim to racist abuse on the pitch. In his own inimitable style, Sepp suggested that anyone who experiences racism on the pitch should shake hands with their opponent and accept that football is a game. He said: "There is no racism, [.

How Mario Balotelli beat the racists to become an all-Italian hero

MirrorFootball has teamed up with some of the blogosphere's best new writers to bring you even more great football reads every single day. Today it's our new Serie A blogger, footballitaliano.co.uk's Mina Rzouki, with her take on the week's big issues in Italy.

• Kop That: Dempsey proves his worth in energy http://t.co/jRA2rnpB 23:52:44, 2011-11-05
• Kop That: Villa: England can win trophies like Spain http://t.co/tpo6rilw 23:22:16, 2011-11-05
• Kop That: Martinez: England must produce more like Tom Cleverley http://t.co/0K8BJ4yH 23:22:12, 2011-11-05
• Kop That: Capello: I have never seen or heard racism in English football http://t.

Racists are no better than wild animals but John Terry must be treated as innocent until proven guilty

If a policeman hears someone shouting racist abuse in the street, there's a good chance that the ignorant bigot will be hauled up before the courts and locked up. The same thing should happen if the captain of ­England is caught insulting an opponent because of the colour of his skin on a ­football pitch.

Samuel Eto'o is regarded within the game as one of the lead campaigners supporting football's bid to rid the game of the cancer that is racism.

So it comes as somewhat of a surprise that the Cameroon striker looks set to leave Inter for a team in the Russian Premier Division, a league notorious for having a huge problem with racist behaviour amongst fans.

Racists drove us out of Greece, says Cisse's wife

"It was sad to hear monkey chants and see the banana inflatables being thrown on to the pitch," says Jude Cisse

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My original plan was to attend an MLS game and toss a dead baby seal onto the field. Then, I thought better.

Cesar Chavez. Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King Jr. These great men fought greed, colonialism, and racism with non-violence. They preached that only light can cast out darkness. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, so to speak.

French Football Federation (FFF) technical director François Blaquart has been suspended by the French Government pending an investigation following his statement that the FFF is concerned about investing in training players who make themselves unavailable for selection for the French national team by choosing to play for another country.

Oh, someone took up the call I made last week - last week? I need to post more often, it was only three posts ago - about mixing sports with politics.
The Egypt Friendly and Why Politics Matter in Sports. Sounds promising. Think I'll go read it.
*three minutes later*
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