Colin Sheridan: Craven chants at 'rat' Bruno Fernandes hardly a super Sunday
Sitting there, bemused, I got the feeling that the only reason people who go to football matches don't chant racist things is because they are not allowed to. That is to say, they would if they could.
OVER AND OUT: Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes reacts to a missed penalty at Craven Cottage on Sunday. Pic: Adam Davy/PA Wire.
Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
“Bruno Fernandes, he looks like a rat.” - Fulham fans
It must be quite a thing. 10,000 people on a sunny Sunday afternoon on the banks of the River Thames chanting your name, only for them to chant, over and over again, that you look like a rat.
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