To be honest, I don't care which clubs are involved. I don't believe any of them would condone this and it's not really about football, it's about bigotry.
I think your comment about subtlety is very insightful as there are times when you wonder if you just imagined it all and whether anyone would believe you. But it's also interesting in that there must be zero subtlety involved in shouting abuse at someone in amongst a noisy crowd.
Leadership on this has to come from the top and they've been utterly woeful. All they seem to care about is the bandwagon rolling on and the money coming in. I mean, this man runs the PL:
Marina Hyde: The Premier League's chairman, the man who brought Sheffield Wednesday low, personifies a very British entrenchment of naked conflicts of interest
www.theguardian.com
Article was written nine years ago and yet little has changed.
Having said this, I wish people on the frontline would just make a stand and state that this isn't acceptable through their actions - players and fans - and that punishments were increased. I know some on here would just shake their heads and say 'it'll never happen', but it feels like we're all just waiting for someone to make the first move, to stick their head above the parapet and say 'no more'.
We hate it when our Black British players are racially abused whilst on England duty, never doubt their word and only have the strongest condemnation for foreign fans and FA's. So what's the difference here?