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That is a brilliant documentary and to be commended to everyone, whether or not they follow football. It shows that the issue is deeper than football suppport. Indeed,, football has, to a considerable extent worked to combat that particular issue.
In Israel, many people whi supported Beitar have now moved on to a new side set up as a reaction to the racism. These include the otherwise unpraisworthy Netinyhau. The money launderer was laudable in his attempts to change the racism within Beitar. Sadly he failed. How they remain in UEFA is unfathomable.
To say that they inspired the idiots on the Paris Metro is nmore than a stretch. Those people almost certainly were unaware of Beitar and not at all likely to be influenced by them. Beitar racists were only anti Muslim. The Paris Metro idiots appear to have been anti black and may have been anti semitic as well.
Finally, if you think that racism, anti semitism and homophobia in football is confined to Chelsea and that opposition to them should be focused on Chelsea, then you are in for a very big disappointment.