I think somebody already said,the thread title shouldn’t be “racistâ€, rather “xenophobicâ€.
It’s not exclusive to us , in general it feels like fan behaviour since COVID has taken a bad turn for the worse.
Probably due to a group of 17/18 year olds that missed 2 years of Wetherspoons £2 a pint and pent up with the frustration of being stuck at home…
The people I saw chanting yesterday were all around that age group, got their little patches on their sweatshirt arms…and if it’s aimed at others their age or lads that are up for it… that’s for them to fill their Saturdays….but yesterday I felt the need to go over to a young German lad(about 13) and his mom because our knobs were shouting and swearing at them….and you could see they were extremely frightened and despite me “breaking ranks†you know that they would all run if confronted with an adult.
When (if) they grow up, and have kids….maybe their mind will reflect on how useless they were at playing their part in society.
As for the stewards …..I honestly don’t know why we bother employing most of them.
I was a steward at the Albion for nearly 10 years as where a load of my mates. I packed in in 2005 some of my mates have only packed in since the pandemic. The difference between when i did it and now is that nearly all the stewards where Albion fans, and we knew how to handle it and we where properly trained. Now it is all contract stewards from outside security firms and they haven't got a clue! They are not trained not interested in football, so therefore don't understand a football supporters mentality, most of them are young and don't know haw to talk to people or defuse a situation. The same thing happened at the cricket as well all the good stewards replaced by these outside contractors, shame really.