I’m sure that Bulgarian group that left at 45 minutes won’t be waiting for England fans outside....
I don't think they were booing because they were being racist, though. They were (rightly or wrongly) sticking up for their player who denied vehemently that hed said what Bong claimed he did. Black players obviously play at Burnley all the time and don't suffer racism, so the incident with Bong was clearly very different
Racist Rodriquez wasn’t their player, at the time, he was in the process of being relegated with WBA.
I accept he is from Burnley, and was a youngster with them, but, would we boo a black player that had an altercation with, say, Solly March, if he had moved on?
I was there that day, there was definitely racist undertones.
I think at Burnley that day, there was so many Burnley fans who were going to boo Bong whatever happened, it enabled others to join in . If there were only 10-20 of them, they wouldn’t have had the balls to do it. It’s easier to pick out one or two using racist language, amongst many who don’t, than it is when a whole block is booing a black player, for whatever reason.
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