do it is forces this is a story submitted through twitter from dave
robinson his twitter handles that pirate davey nine is is he right there this is
about russian club
is that it st petersburg they are the back-to-back champions of the russian
primarily
and there
all trial fan group their largest group of fans
vehicle and screwing up is their name
issued an open letter basically saying how they do not want black
org eight players
on their team
again and this is the lance krone they archana
extremist fan group in eight issued this sort of matter which is titled selection
manifesto twelve here are some of the things that they put in this
ridiculously
disgusting open letter we're not racist
but we see the absence of black players at the senate as an important tradition
it what allows that to maintain the national identity of the club which is
the symbol of saint petersburg
baked said that black players are forces downs then its throat
they called a player's unworthy
of our great city which is
saint petersburg the is director of sports
said players were selected without any limitation regarding origin
religion
or skin color
are you sure
because ed to my recollection you had this club has never signed an african
player they've never had a player from african
that that contains effort in the poor
uh... latin roots and you know they signed cclc
from porto
that's maybe the closest that they've ever come more from the open letter the
fence said they want more homegrown or european players in the team
they're closing the only what claire from other brotherly slot nations such
as ukraine and double rooms as well as from the baltic states
and scandinavia
with the same intelli and historical
and cultural background
as these nations
okay you want to grow your home with your hometown hometown
players and you want them to grow you want them to succeed at the highest
level you put them in youth
uh... camps that's totally fine but as one of their former players alexander
can offset
if we don't have enough good players from saint petersburg then what should
the club do
should they simply just accept these shitty level of players that come from
their town
or amy and keep losing or do you want to
expand your horizons
through the transfer market and sign these players who are probably better
than your players and can get you more titles their former coach addict at the
cops said
i would be happy to sign anyone but the fans don't like black players he
revealed earlier this year quite honestly i do not understand how they
could pay so much attention to skin color
he did not however voiced a desire to actively take a stand against racism
from the fans
uh... the russian club was founded in two thousand one day of one of the
russian premarin the three times their manager call the open letter stupidity
and he also uh... made light uh... how he how he wants the fans to be more
tolerant
of of the things and other players other cultural backgrounds but he did not
totally
totally directly uh... oppose what this
fascists group was saying how exactly ten date police these problems that are
going on with senate saint petersburg a few thoughts that came to my ninth uh...
immediate reactions when reading the story off the b_b_c_ were that j ken
they can it not allow
this russian clubs n it to participate in the champions league that could be
one thing
they could make them ineligible for the russian championship of the primary to
win that they could be similar to all heil state not being able to participate
in any
p_c_s_ bowl games are even participate in the big ten title game it's
ridiculous in every way and to say that
they're not racist they just want to carry on tradition there many traditions
that don't exist anymore
uh... there's one tradition that needs to be changed now and that is a wedge
elation
of guns and we need to be issued gun control here in the states after the
massacre at sandy hook elementary two there are many traditions that
some clubs and even some amendments that have to be changed
uh... this is absolutely one of them their mentality towards all this if
there is a d openly gay player or a black player that is better than your
player if i'm the manager of that club i'm gonna want a player cuz i want to
win and i feel like one person unfortunately is going to have to take
the rains who wasn't openly gay or black player com does then it
prove that they are just is equal
as a regular russian player we all know it a lot of people know what
unfortunately these stupid ass pants do not get it and they're going to have to
prove they're going to either they're going to have to
and inherit this sort of racism in these big it's every single day that they step
onto that takes
and if they prove that they can possibly
be outline jackie robinson and just sort of
show that they are just as good as a regular russian player who knows that
could happen
uh... i'm hoping for how do you guys think they should address this issue
what limitations should they put on
uh... this russian team in many other russian teens in the russian presently
russia's hosting the world cup in twenty eighteen if that doesn't scare you
idon't know what will lever thought in the comments section below we would love
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