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Roma and AC Milan have banned the Corriere dello sport from their facilities and their players will not have any communications with them. Only til the end of the year but a strong statement nonetheless.

Interesting to note that Inter are yet to do the same thing despite it being their player on the cover. Come the summer, you've gotta think Lukaku will want out of there. Abused every week while his club and their fans make excuses for the racists.

The fact that a major paper can see this as an acceptable headline shows it's not just a few idiots in Italy, but a systematic issue that runs deep in Italy. They are decades behind the rest of the continent in this regard.

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5 hours ago, LondonHMFC said:

 


interview with the artist who was commissioned to create the images used in the campaign

pretty flimsy rhetoric on his part, to be fair - the only bit that makes any real sense is the reference to the Benetton campaign - I hope he's proved right - but trying to get the message across to football-watching arseholes is a slightly different kettle of fish than selling high-end products to hand-wringing liberals desperate to be associated with an 'edgy' and socially-aware brand in one of the earliest displays of virtue signalling; this last few months really has shown that Italy is - what - four decades behind the UK in attitudes to racism; I heard exactly the same 'it's ok single people out for abuse because they're ginger/have shit hair/are fat - skin colour is just the same thing' comments over here way back then - i'm guessing it's going to take the same extended and gradual societal change in Italy to begin to make a difference - certainly will all the time that the sort of arseholery that Corriere dello Sport came out with goes unsanctioned, official punishments handed out to clubs continue to be pathetically inadequate, and club hierarchy wilfully turn a blind eye to proceedings in staggering displays of abject stupidity - ho fucking hum....

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