Is This The Answer To Racism In Football?
In 2014, a group called Kick It Out interview soccer players in Europe regarding racism and homophobia surrounding non-hetereosexual and minority athletes. Half of these players provided information of seeing abusive situations regarding these issues while playing with quarter of those actually being the victims of such abuse from fans.
During the year 2014 in Europe, Dutch fans threw bananas at a players, Nazi banners were displayed at the World Cup, and a Spanish team was fined for its fans taunting an opposing player with words as well as bananas. Since then, Dani Alves, Neymar and other celebrity soccer players have taken a stance on twitter and elsewhere regarding the issue.
And as said before, most of the time the league or team as well as society comes down hard on the athlete. But the fault actually lies with the fan who crosses the line, and those teams and leagues who do not proactively prevent and reactively respond to the bad behavior of fans.
The European soccer leagues have fined teams whose fans choose not to behave respectfully, and arresting people for hate crime activity like bullying, aka mobbing, another fan (Paris incident) or other racially motivated activities like tossing bananas on the pitch at Black players.
Yet, the “mono,” or monkey, chants still persist. So, perhaps, @Delwboy has the answer–a boycott by Black athletes.