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[DTeacher]

Football is more popular if anything amongst immigrants, but you have a point. 1st and 2nd generation immigrants don't identify with the local clubs. But why? It's because they are marginalised....they don't identify with local "institutions". Ex-pat Mancs is Australia still support City, but I bet their kids are fully integrated into their society. That doesn't happen in Britain. And it's not down to the attitude of the immigrants. The history of the Irish, West Indians, and Asians tells you that each community has been isolated for many years.

maybe they do, i cant think of much more that could be done to make them welcome at a football match though. we have many irish and african players (not too many asians admittedly). to my knowledge there isnt any racist chants that get going. i suppose in life in general most of the time black people mainly have black friends, asians are the same. i dont think its a problem caused by whites making them feel unwelcome.

It does seem to be more welcoming nowadays to an extent but probably a bit late in the day to attract the over 40's etc amongst the ethnic communities. It can't have been nice when they went to a match (if they went at all) to hear racist chants which were rife at the time. Even seemingly innocent chants aimed at the referee could be construed in a negative light - what was the most popular one?

''You black ba****d...you black ba****d!!''

Remember, it was sang at the REFEREE but had connotations.

The Under 25's are better represented though nowadays and football has certainly cleaned up it's act and will hopefully continue to do so.

 

[J.Marr is Genius]

in the uk.with so many races.is the vast majority/almost all of the football crowd white?

Why isn't the 51% of the crowd women ?