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Don't you think that Football is a sport for racists, violents and hoolligans?

In any country, it's always the same: violence, racism...

Why those things only happen in Football and not in the rest of sports, like Basket, Ciclyng,...?

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    I think because the Sport is so popular so widespread and so high profile

    Despite American belief about the superbowl, the greatest show on the planet is the Football World Cup (Jules Rimes Trophy)... it is far bigger than any other sporting event even surpassing the Olympics

    This is why racist groups see it as the ideal meidium to help them recruit new members and exercise their point of view in the Public eye, giving them more potential to grow as a political ideology using the sports own media to promote and spread their views, no other sport has this possibility at this scale

    you could say that in this regard, football is a victim of it's own success

  • 7 years ago

    Basketball used to be extremely racist...plus football is the most popular sport in the world. The more people that you have participating then the higher the chance is of one doing something wrong

  • 7 years ago

    they're all great sports its just the few that let down the many. great to see that the fan that threw the banana at Danni Alves is banned for life.

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