Fans demand their local sports team be all white with no gays

[NewJeffCT]

I guess there are places where ignorance runs deeper than in the US...



Russian Premier League Zenit rebuffs fans' demands
December 17, 2012
MOSCOW -- Fans of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg are calling for non-white and gay players to be excluded from the team.

Landscrona, the largest Zenit fan club, released a manifesto Monday demanding the club field an all-white, heterosexual team. It added that "dark-skinned players are all but forced down Zenit's throat now, which only brings out a negative reaction" and said gay players were "unworthy of our great city."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1268282/zenit-st.-petersburg-fans-demanding-all-white,-non-gay-team?cc=5901

[Brickbat]

1. Idiots. So sad.

[doc03]

2. I was thinking that can't be in this country. Can you imagine if the NFL

or NBA had that rule?

[niyad]

3. nice to know that batshit crazy isn't limited to this country

[enlightenment]

4. Okay . . .

so ban them. They are ignorant hooligans and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a playing ground.

Nasty shites.

[hifiguy]

5. There was a story on ESPN's E:60 magazine

show a few weeks back about some ultra-Zionist types in Israel mercilessly tormenting an Arab player on a soccer team there and demanding that he be kicked off the team.

It was really a sickening piece.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

6. as much as i/ we criticize the US, there are very few countries

that are as good as the US in terms of minority rights. this might seem sad, but is definitely true