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fans on the terraces have set a standard that John Terry and his men would do well to follow

monkey chants rang at White Hart Lane this month Lazio away "ultras" of Italy abused three players Spurs. It was shocking, but it was too surprising. It was a memory, an echo of the open terrace racism was common 25 years ago. No more hope.

The case of John Terry, Luis Suarez, last year, has led some to ask whether the status of soccer in the fight against racism was an illusion. Anyone who has spent more time on the terraces in the 1980s or 1990s knows what has changed. Football probably introduced me to racism. But it was also the place where it is made public in the fight against racism in any part of British society.

grown breathes football. My father, who came from India in his 20s, is a cricket fanatic who has never tried to pass the "Test cricket." My mother, who is Irish, thought it was important that I knew about Kevin Keegan and Sunil Gavaskar. Someday, when I was five years old, she brought two cups of football, with a layer of Everton in it, the other with Liverpool. they were easily the two biggest teams in the playground in our little corner of Cheshire. Opting for the blue, I became an Evertonian for life, then take the full kit at every opportunity. constant harassing to take my game to finally paid as a gift 10th birthday.

probably did not know much about racism then. Football meant motivating goals and end titles of the League Cup. My computer was completely white was not uncommon then. West Brom "Three Degrees" - the trio of shiny black Laurie Cunningham, Brendon Batson and Cyrille Regis - made headlines as an exception exciting, not the rule. Football Against Racism problem soon took the stage. In Merseyside, Liverpool John Barnes signed a racism of the city in the light and forced to face, too.

wondering if the stop is football. But I do not know if I could. And I do not walk. When I heard a voice behind me as I walked to Selhurst Park in a blue tracksuit, saying: "Even the Pakistanis support Everton now," he does not look like a threat of violence

do not feel safe at all they have blagged a ticket on the wrong side of an FA Cup match at West Ham distance, terrace, once filled began to sing: "I Paki Scouse one prefers to be one. "In theory, at least, it seemed that I would be safe if he kept his mouth shut. Scouse My focus, however, refused, having moved to Essex in my teenage years.

funny thing, looking back, what is the frequency of racist insults was not treated as a matter pending or closed. He sings the monkey "jokes", a test of character that players had to go? These arguments were taken seriously. They are still in large parts of Europe today.

With so much to do to fight against racism terrace, nobody expected that the problem will spread highly paid Premier League dressing rooms multinational Culture and behavior in football elite has obviously changed. It is good to know that I can take my five and six years, a stage after his first test with the soccer match Live Wembley international women during the Olympic Games, without having heard the insults of a racist booth . I prefer not to give a master class of highly paid stars swear football either. Football fans has changed. It is time for the players too.

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