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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>A zero-tolerance stance against racism and discrimination in football remains a distant prospect because those running the show are failing the game, the players, and the fans, says Troy Townsend, a former chief at anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out.<\/p>\n

Punishments are nowhere near strong enough and the people with the power to change that need to be held accountable, Townsend told Anadolu in a wide-ranging conversation on an issue he has worked on for well more than a decade, recently being honored with a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the football governance, the people at the heads of the federations \u2013 FIFA, UEFA \u2013 they\u2019re failing the game. They\u2019re failing the players. They\u2019re not protecting the players,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While progress has been made, particularly in England, he added, \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter how far we\u2019ve come\u201d until the issue is completely rooted out.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve still got a very long way to go until the punishments being handed out are severe, until zero tolerance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Townsend\u2019s words reflect a reality captured clearly in data: Kick It Out received more than 1,300 reports of racist and discriminatory incidents in the 2023-24 season in England.<\/p>\n

This marked a grim new record for a single season, a 32% jump from the previous year, and more than double of the 610 reports in the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n

Across all levels of the game, there was a 47% spike in racist abuse and 34% for faith-based reports, with Islamophobia and antisemitism surging a staggering 138% and 63%, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cRacism remained the highest form of discrimination that gets reported to the organization every single time we put out our end of season results,\u201d said Townsend, who left Kick It Out this June after almost 13 years, starting as a volunteer and bowing out as head of player engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s over 50% of racism within the pro game and the same in the grassroots game, which means we\u2019ve got a problem flowing through all levels of football.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Will take a lot to change\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

The failure of football\u2019s governing bodies, Townsend said, stems first and foremost from a lack of understanding of just how severely racism impacts an individual, be it a player or those around them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking of severe impact. I\u2019m talking about traumatic experiences. I\u2019m talking about those lived experiences that are very tough to relive. If you don\u2019t understand that impact, then you\u2019re never going to have the right sanctions to apply against it,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

This comes down to the other side of the problem, which is that \u201cwe don\u2019t have enough people in prominent positions to be able to influence the sanctioning process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Penalties at the moment are too lenient, like England has a six to 12 game ban for players and bans for fans, which is not going far enough, he said.<\/p>\n

Then there are other weak measures such as partial stadium closures, which just allows people \u201cto create the same kind of abuse from another area,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen in Spain imprisonment now for the first time in their history. We\u2019ve got to make this an approach, where right around the world, similar actions are being taken,\u201d said Townsend, adding that it all comes down to \u201cthe people in control of the sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe governing bodies of the game are the people with the power to create the course of action that many good people want to see to protect people from being victimized, so we have to hold them accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The problem, he emphasized, extends beyond the playing side, with issues in stadiums and in workplace environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will take a lot to change it to move around, but if we have the right set of people in place, then we should be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called for an overhaul of the current regulations, saying that sincere efforts could bear tangible results.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to see FIFA and UEFA stripped down on the rules that they have at the moment, and create a new set of sanctioning processes that would make this game a much equal game and a much better game for people to experience,\u201d said Townsend.<\/p>\n

\u2018A massive conversation that needs to stay on the table\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

For English football, Boxing Day last year marked the first time in 15 years that a Black referee officiated a Premier League game, when Sam Allison took charge of Sheffield United\u2019s match against Luton Town.<\/p>\n

There are 32,000 referees throughout all levels of football in England, according to the country\u2019s Football Association (FA), but just over 8% identify as Black, Asian or mixed heritage, with the figure dropping to 4% for the professional tier.<\/p>\n

Townsend said the situation with referees is a reflection of a problem that extends across the board in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe only have two Black managers out of 92 in professional football, so we are at an all-time low… We look at owners, management, managing directors, people in boardrooms, so these issues are not just isolated to the refereeing community and managers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to start seeing there\u2019s loads of people who are active and who should be given positions because of their status in the game… I\u2019d like to see us break down the barriers of Black referees, Black owners and Black board members. It\u2019s not just an easy one-topic fix here… It\u2019s a massive conversation that needs to stay on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n

For actual progress, Townsend said, there has to be a change in the mentality where the thinking is about \u201cprotecting ourselves in the face of adversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to actually apply the right and appropriate efforts to challenge and to end it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think racism can be ended in football. I wouldn\u2019t say it can be ended in society, but we can do so much better about eliminating it from our game, so that people can step on the field of play free from fear of actions that are meant to belittle them and degrade them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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