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Football, the national sport. We know it as the beautiful game, but | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
it can have an ugly side. Racism has a long history in the sport, | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
and after a number of high-profile incidents last season, it is under | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
the spotlight. I have been speaking to kids, Ex professionals and some | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
of the most important figures in the game to see it racism still | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
exists. Last year, the top flight of English football was different. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Manchester City were crowned champion for the first time in 44 | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
years, of the season also made headlines for the wrong reasons. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Luis Suarez has been banned for eight matches and fined �40,000 for | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
racially abusing another player. October, Liverpool striker, Luis | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Suarez was accused of racially abusing a Patrice Evra on the pitch. | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
The FA have banned him for 80 matches. John Terry was accused of | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
shouting and racist insult to Anton Ferdinand who plays for QPR. It was | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
taken to court and John Terry was found innocent. But the FA are | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
taking the matter further. And then in a cup-tie between a Oldham | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Athletic and have a pool, a fan was rested after Tom Adeyemi reported | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
abuse from the stands. Those incidents puds racist abuse in | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
football back into the news. Back then, racism in football was a big | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
problem. Black players regularly abused. They even had bananas | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
thrown onto the pitch. Until recently, we assumed behaviour like | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
that was in the past. Paul Elliott played for teams in England, Italy | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
and Scotland, now he works with the anti- racism campaign, Kick It Out. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
As a player, what was it like to be on the pitch and be racially | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
abused? Football has changed. It was a difficult working place, | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
because football on the field was my place of work. On many occasions | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
when I had possession of the ball, there was lots of monkey chanting. | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
I got racial abuse by supporters, at times by fellow professionals. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
Football then and society was a difficult place indeed. How can you | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
cope with that on the pitch, trying to play the game? It's wasn't nice. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
Many people thought it was normal, the regular thing and you have to | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
accept it. It took years of campaigning by top managers and | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
players at to make people realise that racism in football was | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
unacceptable. This story is shocking and it is clear we have | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
come a long way, but the John Terry and Luis Suarez incidents mean the | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
colour of a player's skin is something players and the fans used | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
to abuse each other. Danny Shittu plays for Millwall, and has | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
represented Nigeria at the World Cup. Do you think racism is still | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
in football? I have been playing for quite a few years. I personally, | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
have not experienced it. I have heard of it with a couple of my | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
friends and a couple of other professional footballers. I have | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
been in stadiums and the fans don't like you because you are playing | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
for the other team, but to suffer racial abuse must be hard to deal | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
with. You try to switch off, as a player. The even though you have | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
not suffered racial abuse, what goes through your head when you see | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
the high profile incidents? It is upsetting to see such things going | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
on. We just have to keep working at it. Players and people running the | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
game. Is it making strides? Definitely, but a lot of work needs | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
to be done. The phrases and is still an issue, what effect does it | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
have on other levels? This is a soccer Tiger made in London and a | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
train or kids to give them a helping hand of realising their | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
dream of becoming professional footballers. What did you think | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
about it? I thought racism had gone out of the game. I thought they | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
dealt with it a long time ago. that worry you when you see the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
bigger stars of the game are doing this? It gives us the impression | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
that if we make it, it will happen to us. How do experience that? | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
me. Have you heard any racism? have heard it. We were playing a | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
tournament and after the game, the other boys were being racist to our | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
team. Even though it did not happen to you, how did it make you feel? | :05:27. | :05:34. | |
Angry. Being a Premier League start in itself is a really high place to | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
be, and if they do something bad it will have influence on a lot of | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
young children. These guys are not the ones to make the rules that | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
change attitudes in football. That has to happen at the top. You don't | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
get any higher than the man who runs FIFA, Sepp Blatter is in | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
charge of football around the world and I spoke to him. For the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
hundreds and millions of people around the world, should they be | :06:01. | :06:09. | |
worried about the state of racism in the game? We know the game is | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
also the affected, but not so much by what we call discrimination or | :06:16. | :06:24. | |
racism. This is bad. It has to be kicked out. Is it a cause for | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
concern when some of the highest- profile players in the Premier | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
League, are those involved in alleged cases of racism? Absolutely, | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
we are worried about that. Players at the highest level, and coaches, | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
they must be an example. But they must be an example. Therefore, we | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
expect example of the great players. We also have another matter, which | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
is very important, a handshake, which is very special. This | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
handshake, where you have to look into the eyes of the people. This | :07:00. | :07:06. | |
is also something way you are my friend, we play football, you are | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
my opponent, but we will shake hands and I will respect you. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
do FIFA want to be in terms of racism in football? And how do you | :07:17. | :07:25. | |
plan on getting there? I want to be in Zero Tolerance, and to be | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
accepted that zero tolerance is accepted by everybody. But this is | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
a long way to go. A pleasure talking to you. | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
It is not every day you get to speak to the most powerful man in | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
football. After spending time with him I am not sure how he wants to | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
tackle the problem. There are other organisations that have had to kick | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
racism out of the game. One man has trying to do that the last 20 years. | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
I have come to Wembley to meet him. Lord Herman Ouseley is the chairman | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
of Kick It Out, which he set up in 1993 to challenge discrimination in | :08:02. | :08:09. | |
football. One of the fundamental things in football like racism, | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
people who engage in these acts have very little respect for | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
themselves. These people look in the mirror and don't like | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
themselves, so they have to hate someone else and be disrespectful. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Iping we have got to get people to think good about themselves. Be | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
respectful about themselves, so they respect other people. That is | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
the challenge for all of us. Lord Herman Ouseley believes that to | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
kick racism out of the game millions of people love, we have to | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
change the way people think. Racism is a problem in society, not just | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
sport. But football has a responsibility to set the standard. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Whether what happened in the Premier League last season means | :08:52. | :08:56. |