Kevin Prince Boateng

[The Baron]

If he took that action in a meaningful match rather than just a friendly I'd be more impressed.

Seriously, if, for example, Noel Hunt walked off in the face of some of the disgraceful anti gypsy chants he has to contend with, what would the reaction be?

Would he be supported or face suspension?

Not so sure the reaction would be so supportive.

Hope I'm wrong.

Unfortunately you're probably right. All the more reason for the top players at monster clubs to make people take notice.

I agree KPB has empowered the morons but he's also made all of Europe sit up and take notice.

[MANTIS01]

Walking off is a kinda dickhead move and I'd hit the guy with a big fine. If this behaviour were to be accepted it would leave football games wide open to angle shooting. If your team is 3-0 down in the Champions League Final players are allowed to just trap off the field of play if they hear moody comments from the crowd? Alternatively if your team is 3-0 up it surprisingly becomes much easier to tolerate a few louts all of a sudden. Milan are very supportive because the game meant nothing. That's before I even mention how the crowd get rolled over by these actions. You get tickets to FA cup final with your kids and half way through the players leave the pitch, the game is abandoned, and you make your way home. I'm sure eveyone would be well chuffed. Allowing morons so much control of whether the match is played out is quite ridic. Report it to ref and crack on with the game imo.

[kukushkin88]

Some things are much more important than football though.

[The Baron]

Some things are much more important than football though.

[horseplayer]

fining a player for finding racist abuse upsetting does not sound a great way to deal with it to me

[rfgqqabc]

Like the Italian fa can afford to be seen fining someone acting out against racism.

I imagine you could get a game abandoned now if you tried hard enough. Surprised its not been done before really. Been a few suspicious floodlight's failing north of the border

[MintTrav]

Some things are much more important than football though.

Agreed. However, I don't think it is up to an individual player to decide he doesn't like something and walk off. I am amazed at many of the things that football crowds say and amazed that they are allowed to do so. This is just one of their many repugnant themes. But will players now be allowed to decide as individuals on a game-by-game basis whether to walk off if supporters say things they don't like? If this were to spread we could see players walking off for lots of reasons, which would obviously be unworkable. Would it not be better for the police, football associations or clubs to be taking the decisions in an organized manner rather than individual players on an ad-hoc basis?

[kukushkin88]

Some things are much more important than football though.

Agreed. However, I don't think it is up to an individual player to decide he doesn't like something and walk off. I am amazed at many of the things that football crowds say and amazed that they are allowed to do so. This is just one of their many repugnant themes. But will players now be allowed to decide as individuals on a game-by-game basis whether to walk off if supporters say things they don't like? If this were to spread we could see players walking off for lots of reasons, which would obviously be unworkable. Would it not be better for the police, football associations or clubs to be taking the decisions in an organized manner rather than individual players on an ad-hoc basis?

I disagree, no one should have to be subjected to behaviour which is both illegal and totally unacceptable. In our society if something is unfair then it is the responsibilty of all of us to stop it, if this means we don´t play football in the presence of racists then that´s ok.

[maccol]

Some things are much more important than football though.

Agreed. However, I don't think it is up to an individual player to decide he doesn't like something and walk off. I am amazed at many of the things that football crowds say and amazed that they are allowed to do so. This is just one of their many repugnant themes. But will players now be allowed to decide as individuals on a game-by-game basis whether to walk off if supporters say things they don't like? If this were to spread we could see players walking off for lots of reasons, which would obviously be unworkable. Would it not be better for the police, football associations or clubs to be taking the decisions in an organized manner rather than individual players on an ad-hoc basis?

This is obviously the ideal solution,but in far too many jurisdictions the will is just not there to tackle these issues.Indeed I would argue that in some areas this type of behaviour is tacitly approved of.

[MANTIS01]

I don't think a dozen morons should be allowed to decide whether 30,000 of us get to watch the football game or not. In all aspects of life we don't let these people have control of what happens. After the London tube bombings everyone just carried on using the underground as usual because mindless terrorists aren't going to disrupt our normal lives. Why is the attitude so different towards some bad words at the football?

Anyway, forget words being thrown from the stands, in the Manchester derby missiles were thrown from the stands and Rio Ferdinand was bloodied from direct hits. This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable and puts people in imminent physical danger. Yet nobody mentioned he shudda walked off.

[sovietsong]

Mantis, you still haven't updated your sig... Don't make me protest & quit blonde over this...

[nirvana]

This could be bandwagonesque. Pretty sure some thick English footballer will follow this soon.

Counter intuitively, white people flipping their shit about these things shows the lack of progress we've made in becoming indifferent to the colour of people's skin.

[MANTIS01]

Mantis, you still haven't updated your sig... Don't make me protest & quit blonde over this...

An awful lot of people love me sovietsong and I find it difficult to please everyone. I still have one in the queue from Tikay saying I am top 3 poster on Blonde. I feel like you are putting a lot of pressure on me over this and tbh it ruined my xmas. That said the outragous76 one could be replaced. Remind me what you said again but make it better this time.

[smashedagain]

I don't think a dozen morons should be allowed to decide whether 30,000 of us get to watch the football game or not. In all aspects of life we don't let these people have control of what happens. After the London tube bombings everyone just carried on using the underground as usual because mindless terrorists aren't going to disrupt our normal lives. Why is the attitude so different towards some bad words at the football?

Anyway, forget words being thrown from the stands, in the Manchester derby missiles were thrown from the stands and Rio Ferdinand was bloodied from direct hits. This sort of behaviour is totally unacceptable and puts people in imminent physical danger. Yet nobody mentioned he shudda walked off.

what team do you support with 30,000 crowds. Had you down as Millwall for some reason

[Tal]

Blatter criticises KPB for walking off and says clubs face sanctions for this sort of behaviour.