I am aware of being dissappointed by a particular group of people you thought you could trust.
The same doesn't apply to Everton Luiz, a Brazilian football player/ soccer star who found himself subject to racist abuse while playing in Belgrade. Playing for Partizan Belgrade, fans of rivals Rad Belgrade started monkey chants when he was on the ball.
Reduced to tears (above, being comforted by goalkeeping teammate Filip Kjajic), the other team also brought dishonour upon themselves: "What shocked me above all was the attitude of the other team. Instead of trying to defuse the situation, they supported that type of behaviour. I want to forget about it all as quickly as possible," Everton was reported as commenting thereafter.
To help their team do better in a match it was loosing, one set of fans felt themselves justified in sinking to such a level, in order to help their team do better. The situation in which sports fans believe that descending to such barbaric attitudes can help them win deserves nothing but the broadest condemnation. Where has any sport or society got itself to in which this is thought reasonable?
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