{"id":30677,"date":"2019-10-25T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:43:58","slug":"haringey-borough-fc-united-against-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/haringey-borough-fc-united-against-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Haringey Borough FC united against racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After 64 minutes into the game, the players of Haringey walked out of a match against Yeovil following claims of racist abuse.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once again racism sadly found its way the football world on Monday the 14<sup>th<\/sup> of October.<\/p>\n<p>The home-players decided to leave the field shortly after Yeovil scored the first goal. The football club, as well as the fans, showed clear disgust towards such behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>The Haringey Club later Twitted: \u201cIt must be said that 99.9% of @YTFC fans are also disgusted by what\u2019s happened as much as we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The goalkeeper of the club was being spat at and thrown bottles on. These behaviours were not tolerated in anyways from both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Players from Haringey as well as Yeovil came back to the field showing beautiful solidarity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The players of both sides return to the pitch as a show of solidarity. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YTFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YTFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yAlV44MYrf\">pic.twitter.com\/yAlV44MYrf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yeovil Town FC (@YTFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YTFC\/status\/1185588180466196481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">19 octobre 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sad issue recurring on a regular basis in the football world has known some recent stories like the one during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2019-10-14\/bulgaria-england-racism-euro-2022-qualifier\/\">England\u2019s Euro Qualifier 2022<\/a> in which racist chants were aimed at Tyrone Mings and Raheem Sterling.<\/p>\n<p>The Football Association did not comment on this event. But both teams have expressed their discontent and anger towards racism in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Words: Alexandra Girgis<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Isaiah on Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 64 minutes into the game, the players of Haringey walked out of a match against Yeovil following claims of racist abuse. Once again racism sadly found its way the football world on Monday the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":30685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-sport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}