Slogan tee shirts
Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:00 pm
This comes in the wake of Lazio Ultra fans wearing anti Semitic tee shirts in October and turning their backs to a minutes silence to the Holocaust victims whilst singing the Italian national anthem,the offending tee shirts had a picture of Anne frank with the words in Italian stating Roma fans are Jews,the fans donning such shirts were rightly banned from attending all Lazio games for 6-8 years and the club was fined 50,000 euros. My point is when did it become necessary for the team to next be seen in Anne Frank antisemitism tee shirts denouncing the demonstrations,would that have not been a given that the club and its players would decry the deplorable behavior of their fans ?
I mean surely holding the minutes silence again with he aforementioned fans absent would have been far more a potent message than the obligatory tee shirts we see players from clubs all over the world trotting out on to the pitch in
I know its now part and parcel of the modern game,but the impact of combating such hatred has been diminished significantly with clubs using such a tired formula,I mean why were the words on the Lazio players tee shirts in English,is it not their own fans that needed to heed the message or was this simply a message to the whole of the watching world to distance themselves from a problem that has been prevalent in Italian football from year dot and has yet to be addressed ?
I mean surely holding the minutes silence again with he aforementioned fans absent would have been far more a potent message than the obligatory tee shirts we see players from clubs all over the world trotting out on to the pitch in
I know its now part and parcel of the modern game,but the impact of combating such hatred has been diminished significantly with clubs using such a tired formula,I mean why were the words on the Lazio players tee shirts in English,is it not their own fans that needed to heed the message or was this simply a message to the whole of the watching world to distance themselves from a problem that has been prevalent in Italian football from year dot and has yet to be addressed ?