Podcasting Script on Racism in Football

Podcasting Script on Racism in Football

Podcast Title

Racism in Football

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Introduction

Welcome to The XYZ Podcast. You are listening to Episode 01. Today is May 9th, 2013. Your host on the show is ABC, a Socialist Educator from Boston.

Program Overview

Today on the show we are talking about Racism in Football.

Program

I welcome you all to my show. At the moment we are recording at the EFFG conference. This conference is on Racism in Football. I am using Audio city for recording the audio, editing the audio and then saving it as an .mp3.

Not too long before black footballers in the UK had to often come across racial abuse and monkey chants from their opponents. At this time the issue seems to have been generally wiped out from the British game and as a result now it is not abnormal to have a black player in the football league. The issue might have sneaked out of the British competition however a series of occurrences over the last decade all over Europe implies the issue is still common in mainland Europe.

All through the 1970s and 1980s, the footballers in the British Isles from diverse ethnic backgrounds were treated badly on a regular basis from the crowd members singing anti-semitic or racist songs, making monkey chants and also chants directly associated with patriotism (Kassimeris, 2009). It is considered that this was all coupled with far-right groups who gave the impression of employing football matches to sign up new members.

Some Far-right groups such as the NF or National Front utilized their publication 'Bulldog' to encourage competitions among supporters for instance the 'most racist ground in Britain' title. Innumerable copies of 'Bulldog' was openly sold all over the country and different clubs for instance Leeds United, Chelsea, Newcastle United, Milwall, West Ham and Arsenal were witnessed to have sturdy fascist rudiments. Following the disaster of Heysel stadium in the 1980s, the leaflets of the British National Party were seen on the terraces!

All through 1990s the government of Britain introduced procedures to fight racism in football at the side of footballs regulating bodies over and above at supporter level, club level and organisations level etc. A substantial turn down in racism was witnessed during 1990s in the British sports and so now the fans of football will almost never listen to racist abuse at the stadiums in UK ...