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great article on Colin Kazim Richards, whose now with Corinthians in Sao Paulo
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/02/colin-kazim-richards-corinthians-brazil-racism-football
particularly interesting is his take on football banter
“I’m from London and I moved to Bury – that’s been the hardest move ever, culturally. There were no black people up there and food was hard for me. All that rolled into one. And then you go into training and people think it’s funny to put bananas on your peg and then people think it’s funny to cut up your shoes but what people don’t realise is my dad don’t have money.
“I was on £45 a week – I can’t buy new shoes every week. Cutting up your laces and putting a hole in your crotch on your trousers and shit like that. They don’t understand how hard my dad works … I used to clean my trainers with a toothbrush.”
Would he describe that as “football banter” or racism? “The first time I think it’s more ignorance,” he says, “but then it really is racism after that, because they’re not listening, they still think it’s funny. And then you retaliate and you get labelled a bad boy.”