Liverpool's Europa League win over FK Rabotnicki tainted by racist taunts

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By Sportsmail Reporter Last updated at 9:51 AM on 30th July 2010



Liverpool's Europa League opponents FK Rabotnicki could face action if UEFA authorities are alerted to an incident of racist crowd behaviour.

Pictures have emerged from Liverpool's 2-0 over the Macedonian side in Skopje of supporters directing monkey taunts towards the English side's players.


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Liverpool started the third qualifying round tie at the Philip II Stadium with two black players in their side in double goalscorer David Ngog and 19-year-old winger David Amoo.

Macedonian football has had a problem with racist behaviour in the past. In September 2003, England players Emile Heskey, Sol Campbell and Ashley Cole were all the subject of abuse in an international against Macedonia at the same stadium.

An English flag was also burned and European governing body UEFA later fined the Football Federation of Macedonia £10,730.

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At the double: Ngog scored either side of half-time in Liverpool's 2-0 win



Meanwhile Daniel Agger lauded the performance of double goalscorer Ngog.

'We have got to give David credit for the two goals. He took them very well – it was a very good performance,' the Liverpool defender said.

'He was there in the right place at the right time, which is what all good strikers do. He is a good player and has the qualities but he knows that he still has a bit to learn.

'I know that he works hard every day but if he continues to work hard then he will come on a long way. But he has to keep working hard, as every one of us is doing, if he wants to get there.'

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Not great.

Hopefully as small a minority as it appears.
 
Horrible. I remember being at a Plymouth game with my dad when I was young, around 7/8. A black fella got the ball and everyone started making monkey gestures and noises.

I joined in, not really understanding why they did it. My dad put me straight fast as you like as you can imagine, gave me a right good bollocking. Looking back I'm so thankful he did.

There's no place for racism in football or anywhere else. I hate Liverpool because they're Liverpool, not because of the colour of their skin or nationality.
 
Happens often in eastern Europe it seems. Bunch of neanderthals.
 
Hopefully the photo is misleading, but it looks as though the people sat around him are all smiling and laughing about it. Horrible.
 
Logan! said:
That'll teach 'em.
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It's all relative.


But also, how can fining a Football Association make a difference, or dissuade it? It's a social problem, football fans are just a reflection of that.
 
It's just the way is it in many many countries, the Balkans/Eastern Europe, many part of Asia.

Hell even on the continent proper, Spain/Italy.

Like someone else said, glad it was N'Gog that scored the goals.
 
BTV_is_neutral said:
It's just the way is it in many many countries, the Balkans/Eastern Europe, many part of Asia.

Hell even on the continent proper, Spain/Italy.

Like someone else said, glad it was N'Gog that scored the goals.
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The continent proper??
 
It's a ridiculous situation in this day and age, but then again, it's easy to forget that racism still exists in English football grounds and it was only a couple of decades ago when it was as commonplace here as it is in Spain, Macedonia etc.

An interesting article by John Barnes: John Barnes
 
decorativeed said:
It's a ridiculous situation in this day and age, but then again, it's easy to forget that racism still exists in English football grounds and it was only a couple of decades ago when it was as commonplace here as it is in Spain, Macedonia etc.

An interesting article by John Barnes: John Barnes
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I'm not English, so not defending England or anything, but the kind of blatant outward racism you see in many european away ties, has not been seen in English football for a good decade now at the very least.

Are there isolated instances? you bet. But take for example Zenit in Russia, where the manager himself came out and said, Yes our fans are racist, and the fans demanded that no black(or was it some other race) players were signed.

Stories like these are unheard of in England atm.
 
Yes, they are "at the moment", but my point is probably that as abhorent we (young ones mainly who don't remember it here) find it, it's only in the very recent past that people behaved in the same manner in this country.

It's disingenuous to suggest that every country and culture progresses at the same rate.

It's only 27 years ago that Bobby Robson had to defend himself for picking black players for England: "If the 11 best players in the country were black, that would be my England team".

A bunch of National Front supporters watching England refused to celebrate John Barnes' goal against Brazil in 1984 and claimed the match had finished 1-0 as his goal didn't count.
 
^Trust me, I am not expecting every culture to be on the same wavelength at the same time, I am from Bangladesh, we are still trying to convince half the population, their daughters should go to school...hehe.

It's just that, these are football fans(i know that doesn't mean they are outside of the norms of society), but the purpose of going to the football is to watch the players, the skill...so for them to forget that, and instead spend their time doing this, in 2010 is a disgrace.

A political rally somewhere, I can understand how it might get heated, and people look for scapegoats, and someone to blame/hate/ostracize, but at a football match, and sometimes even before kick off?

Idiots.
 
decorativeed said:
Yes, they are "at the moment", but my point is probably that as abhorent we (young ones mainly who don't remember it here) find it, it's only in the very recent past that people behaved in the same manner in this country.

It's disingenuous to suggest that every country and culture progresses at the same rate.

It's only 27 years ago that Bobby Robson had to defend himself for picking black players for England: "If the 11 best players in the country were black, that would be my England team".

A bunch of National Front supporters watching England refused to celebrate John Barnes' goal against Brazil in 1984 and claimed the match had finished 1-0 as his goal didn't count.
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:eek: fecking hell, it's amazing to see how far we've come.

It's great that it's become extremely socially unacceptable for that kind of behaviour here at football grounds. It's best when people police themselves rather than rely on authorities. That said, outside of football, in some of the poorer, rougher areas of Britain there is still racism about. I'd say it's stronger against the middle-eastern and other asians.
 
Addis said:
:eek: fecking hell, it's amazing to see how far we've come.

It's great that it's become extremely socially unacceptable for that kind of behaviour here at football grounds. It's best when people police themselves rather than rely on authorities. That said, outside of football, in some of the poorer, rougher areas of Britain there is still racism about. I'd say it's stronger against the middle-eastern and other asians.
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That's progress, as every 'new' ethnic group comes in, they are hated on, and slowly they climb the social ladder, and the next group to be abused come in.
 
Eastern Europe. So not really that surprised. As people have said it's just a social problem and something the people over there aren't really used to seeing due to the lack of multiculturalism in the respective countries.
 
Really glad Ngog was the one who scored, rub it in the face of the idiots who think racism is acceptable.
Just a shame incidents like this will always happen somewhere, as they'll always be idiots.
 
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