Saturday, June 9, 2012

And the first apparent racism incident of the tournament comes in Game Two...

And BBC's Panorama called this perfectly...

In Russia's 4-1 win over the Czech Republic yesterday, anti-racism officials have reported at least two incidents in the stadium, one in which fans apparently gave racist chants to an African-heritage Czech player, and a second in which about three dozen fans battled stewards in the stadium.

A Czech defender, according to reports, had racist chants put to him while he was taking a corner kick in the match, and some Russian fans were apparently attacking stewards after the match.

In addition, at least one apparent white-supremacist/far-right flag was seen flown in the stadium during the match.

All it's going to take is one spark to blow the entire powderkeg -- sounds like we're through two days of it, though...

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