Racism: Referee's can now stop a game!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18338838

Platini looks to stop a game if there is any racist behaviour!

Society is the problem, not football...

You will never eradicate the racist element from society, and stopping a football match will give these scum exactly what they want - the chance to be noticed.

How about if their team is losing 0-3 at home? Start racist chanting and have the game abandoned?

Fixture pile-up please.

 

I'd say the offending party goes down for a 2-0 loss should the referee consider it unbearable. The clubs will soon get tougher on it.

The same should apply for the players, if a ref clearly hears it.

 

This. Common sense really to prevent what you stated could happen.

 

The only way to stop racist **** happening is to root out those who are doing it. Ban them for life and word will get around.

Calling off games will simply highlight the issue and give these morons the media coverage they crave

 

Fifa and Uefa really are a bunch of dimwits.

 

What about deliberate pitch invasions to get a match abandoned - where have we seen that before?

 

Agree completely. As I said last week when we were discussing the issue of possible racism at the Euros, I disagree with stopping matches, bar stopping them temporarily while police remove the offending party from the stand (but even that has its own issues). This kind of thing is open to way too much abuse in the tactical sense.

 

Well, I'll be the lone voice of dissent.

Whle the Euros are the wrong format to start the policy, I think it would be very useful in all european club competitions. If there is racist chanting the game is stopped. The replay is behind closed doors. if it happens twice, all that teams european fixtures are behind closed doors. After none of locomotiv whereveveritis fans gets to see any european football for one europa leauge/chamions league season, the problem will stop.

the trouble with starting it at the euros is that the format doesn't allow for replays, and because there will often be no "home" team to penalise with a closed door fixture. right idea, wrong time

 

It could be a good weapon where clubs have consistently refused to tackle a problem. Any club can attract idiots, but most will try and sort out the problem, banning the offenders, etc until the message gets across. The ones who don't need more than the tiny fines that UEFA tend to throw their way. Any club this happened to would probably find that not only would it be an automatic defeat but massive sanctions would also follow. That would surely undo any incentive to get a game stopped if you were losing.

 

What's to stop racist fans going to a rival's ground to get them punished? Football matches shouldn't be decided in the stands, if a country has an issue with racism, or hooliganism of any kind, then a blanket ban on them competing internationally and in international club competitions may be in order while they clean their act up.

 

This would penalise the country's players for the actions of the fans.

Refusing their fans tickets to matches, or making the team play in an empty stadium at home, would be better targeted at the fans.

As soon as a country's fans realise that they can't watch football because of the actions of the 10% or so that are hoolies, they will sort it out.

 

Hopefully it won't be the issue the media has everyone believing it will be and we can enjoy the championships. Also I hope the hosts come out in a better light than they are currently being painted. I think we need to be realistic about how we tackle this problem, and don't start using football as the vehicle to solve all the worlds problems. Sport can help but it is not right in my opinion to start letting these issues dictate to the sport.

 

I expect that there will not be a whisper of racism in the whole tournament - - the authorities have realised the size of the issue and will be having a quiet bludgeoning of the vocal lads.

And realising how the issue has made them look internationally might be the start of the process of addressing it domestically. Both Poland and the Ukraine have invested a huge amount of money and pride in these games. They see it as a chance to join the western europe club. If they think all that good work might be undermined by the yobbos, their tolerance of the yobs might run out. Yobs can only flourish in an accepting, or at least passive, environment

 

It's not so much the cancellations that would sort the problem out but the threat of it.

It puts massive pressure on the organisers to see the competition go through without major incident.

 

It would work as a clever tactic to induce pressure on the organisers, but the trouble being that if there is an incident, then the referee will have no option but to abandon the game - it's going to be a farce.

What next? Call off a game because people are swearing?