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Players will say anything to try and get inside the opposition players head. I've heard some sickening things on the pitch, however you'd think with racism being so high profile just now that something would click with them and they wouldn't say it. Sad.



It’s a bit like cricket sledging back in the day. Ditto football fans in the 70s and 80s.

If mocking an opponent’s ethnic background (or anything else) put them off their game then it was considered fair enough, regardless of how bad it sounded in any other context.

I have *some* sympathy with this viewpoint, but would say that most racist abuse was just pure racism not gamesmanship.