Voice of Jewish sport
KICK IT Out, the organisation set up to kick racism out of football has its 20th anniversary celebration dinner next week. And while not eradicating the problem from the beautiful game in those two decades, it’s certainly made inroads in trying to solve the problem. But as if it – and the FA – don’t have enough to deal with, it seems the problem has now seeped into other sports, with Maccabi GB’s futsal team finding themselves on the receiving end of anti-Semitic abuse during their game against Kaunas FC. The team have proudly been flying the community’s flag in this season’s FA Futsal League, though were met on Sunday afternoon by a barrage of racial abuse – both the players and those supporting them. Reportedly called “dirty Jews” amongst other things, MGB sent reports to both the CST and FA, with the latter, via their Amateur Football Alliance branch who deal with dissent in futsal, saying they are poised to investigate. Claiming they have “a robust system in place” for such incidents, they have to first gather all the evidence, then assess the situation with the FA before meting out any charges. In the meantime – and bear in mind it took the FA two months to punish Nicolas Anelka for his quenelle salute – should the MGB team defeat Oxford at the weekend, they will then qualify for the next round of the tournament where they could be drawn to face none other than Kaunas FC.
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