And While We're At It... We may need to slam the door on European soccer, while we're at it...

Many disturbing articles in the last couple of days from the dysfunctional world of European soccer, NOT counting the fact that the year-before-World-Cup warmup, the Confederations Cup, has been removed from Qatar in 2021.

• Chelsea should be banned from European club competition.  Devoted fans/ultras of the club denied entry onto a Paris train of a Black man, with one chant being:  ""We're racist, we're racist, we're racist, and that's the way we like it, we like it, we like it"" -- appearing to make them members of the "Chelsea Headhunters", a racist organization of soccer hooligans you can read about on the Wikipedia page chronicling why UEFA and FIFA need to step in yesterday.

Both this year (in the round of 16) and last year (in the quarterfinals), Chelsea faced Paris Saint-Germain, and, both times, the Headhunters had pre-planned racial violence during the event.  Paris Saint-Germain was cited by UEFA for retaliatory racist action in the 2014 incident.

UEFA and FIFA claim no authority to act on the train station incident, since the 2015 incident was outside the boundaries of stadium grounds.

Chelsea leads the two-game series by scoring an away goal in a 1-1 draw against PSG this year.  If the two-game match is tied, extra time is only played if the teams also score an equal number of goals as the away team.

• Of course, Chelsea may have to wait in line, as a Europa League (second-tier to the Champions League for European clubs) series has been disrupted by racist bullshit, and this even far more planned than Chelsea's.   Feyenoord (Netherlands) hooligans trashed BOTH HALVES of the two-game tie against AS Roma of Rome.

First, in the match in Rome, a 1-1 draw, riots resulted in at least 32 arrests of Feyenoord hooligans in the streets of Rome.

They promised more mayhem when the Italians came to Holland, and they did not disappoint.

A Black player for AS Roma had a large inflatable banana thrown at him during the first half of the return match.  (Bananas are often used to imply Black players are nothing more than monkeys or apes, and is a common racist tactic in most of the soccer world.)

The referee stopped the match and threatened to end the tie and award the series to AS Roma.

Then, in the second half, the same referee threw a Feyenoord player out of the game for a dangerous tackle, and that got objects thrown from the crowd.  The match was stopped AGAIN, this time for about 20 minutes.

Inexplicably, the match was allowed to continue, and AS Roma won the match, 2-1, to win the series 3-2 and advance in the tournament.

No word yet on UEFA actions against Feyenoord...

• Because both of them are going to have to wait in line behind Celtic of Scotland, who have now been hit with three charges for their conduct during the 2015 Europa League, from which they were just eliminated by Inter Milan.

First, Celtic was fined 10,000 euros for a supporter setting off a flare during a group match.

Now, two more charges have been hit for the game in which they were eliminated.

The first is a repeat offense on the fireworks, as they set off some in the 1-0 loss which eliminated them, just days after the group match incident fine was announced.

The second is that the team received SEVEN yellow cards in the match.  That's an automatic UEFA charge at the point they receive five.  One player did get sent off, and the referee was publicly rebuked by manager Ronny Deila, for which he could also be charged.

A 2004 incident in which a team received five yellow cards cost them 10,000 Swiss francs (the currency used at the time).  It would appear that seven would get a stiffer fine.

• And a THIRD Europa League match has been placed under investigation, as Dynamo Kiev of the Ukraine now has to wait for UEFA to determine if their next home match (against Everton in the quarterfinals) has to be played under closed doors!

A 3-1 win over Guingamp of France was marred by violence between the fans, pitch invasions, fireworks, and the match having to be stopped for eight minutes.

Guingamp supporters enraged Dynamo Kiev ultras by rolling out the French tricolor to signify their feeling on the disputed region of Crimea, and Dynamo Kiev's ultras were out for blood.

A decision will be made as to what penalties Dynamo Kiev will be given.

• And one more Champions League note:  Bayer Leverkeusen of Germany has been brought under review for an "illicit banner" in their win over Atletico Madrid.

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It's not going to work, people.

The day and age of money allowing these matches to take place when all sanity and all safety indicate these matches should and MUST be stopped must end.

The only way to stop this is either to stop the teams in which ultra hooligans are doing this from playing, or stop the tournaments outright.

PERIOD.

That is FIVE incidents this round, at least.

Stop the hooligans, or stop the games.

And I think I know which one we'd have to pick.