I have been to most of the home games and many of the away games in the past few years and was commenting to somebody recently that I have heard maybe a couple of racist comments in the past 10 years.That's interesting as strangely enough I was only thinking earlier today about incidents of racism I've directly seen/heard at a football match and I could only remember one - when one of our own fans called Liam Davis a monkey. This incident was reported to a steward and the offender was removed from the stadium. I've been a ST holder every season since we moved to the Kassam and have probably averaged about 10 away games a season in that time, so not a bad sample size.
It really is a shame to think there's a player potentially about to join the club that will have that memory of our fan base. Based on my own experiences of attending games I thought we were better than most. Apparently not.
What Ryan said is awful however. Even though it is a small minority, I believe, it does have to be stamped out. And clubs have to take it more seriously. If players are taking the knee and stewards are ignoring racist incidents that is ridiculous.