Wenger calls for action on racist abuse
Written by Jonathan Chong on Friday, October 3, 2008
Manager Arsène Wenger has called for the footballing world to take sterner action on racist abuse.
The Frenchman admits that it is primarily a problem with society but it is not something that should be punished lightly.
Wenger was speaking out after former Arsenal defender Sol Campbell, who now plays for Portsmouth, was the victim of racist abuse from Tottenham fans.
Wenger said: "My reaction is that abuse cannot be tolerated from anybody towards anybody in the world.
"How can you fight against it? You can single out people who do it.
"You can punish them individually by not letting them in, then maybe single out a group of people who go from game to game and do it.
"Sometimes stupidity is contagious as well and sometimes in the crowd there is a competition to see who can be more stupid.
"That is why you should not let these people be together. There is, though, a big tolerance and the abuse only becomes singled out when it is racism.
"That is not the only abuse which you get in the stadium, but maybe people only get touched by it when it is racism.
"Insults of any way should not be tolerated either.
"The racist abuse is much worse in some other countries than in England.
"I believe that England has shown the right direction and the right way by not tolerating it and has done much more than any other country maybe in the game.
"That's why the problem we saw comes up again because people don't accept it.
"In this country I find they are a model to copy in the (other) countries."
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