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| Racism is not just black and white, says Wenger Posted: 19 Oct 2012 08:59 AM PDT
Reacting to questions in the light of John Terry's four-match ban for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand and the ugly events during and after England's under-21 match in Serbia on Tuesday, Wenger said skin colour was not the only issue. "It is not only racism, black and white, it is against all kinds of insults we still have in the stadiums. We must fight more against it," the Frenchman, who has suffered his fair share of taunts over the years, told reporters. "You look at some faces when you walk around the pitch, what they shout at you is scary. That is, for me, racism." England defender Danny Rose said he was racially abused and pelted with stones in the Serbian city of Krusevac at Tuesday's match, prompting the British government to call for tough sanctions against Serbia. Players will wear Kick It Out T-shirts at league matches this weekend, supporting a campaign to eradicate racism from English football — an issue which has been under the microscope in the wake of the Terry case and Liverpool's Luis Suarez serving an eight-match ban last season for racist insults. Some black players have threatened not to support the campaign this weekend, among them Reading striker Jason Roberts, saying not enough is being done to punish offenders. Roberts's stance has been criticised by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson and Wenger also said that all players should be unified in their support of the Kick It Out campaign. "I feel that (black players) are the main targets and if they do not join in it makes the whole thing not efficient and not credible. We need all to fight together against that," Wenger said. "They have faced the most abuse, so I think it is important they are on board. "If they feel the punishments are not hard enough they have to express that in a different way but I think that it would be sad if they do not join in," he added. Ferguson said Roberts's threatened protest was the wrong way to get his message across. "I don't know what point he is trying to make," Ferguson told reporters at his Friday news conference. "I don't know if he is trying to put himself on a different pedestal from everyone but he really should be supporting all the rest of the players who are doing it." Chelsea captain Terry decided yesterday not to appeal against a four-match FA ban after being found guilty of racially insulting Ferdinand in a Premier League match last October. — Reuters |
| In-form Wozniacki reaches Kremlin Cup semis Posted: 19 Oct 2012 08:39 AM PDT
The third seed from Denmark, looking for her second WTA title in a month after winning the Korea Open, will now take on unseeded Swede Sofia Arvidsson in tomorrow's semi-finals. "It was a very good match today as both of us played very well," Wozniacki (picture), 22, told reporters. "The difference at the end was that I could just keep my highest level up and I managed to win the most important points, especially at the beginning of the third set." Arvidsson eased past seventh seed Maria Kirilenko 6-3 6-3, knocking out the last remaining Russian in both the men's and women's singles of the Moscow indoor event. On the men's side, Malek Jaziri beat Czech Lukas Rosol 7-6 6-3 to become the first Tunisian player to reach an ATP World Tour semi-final. Jaziri, who upset third seed Viktor Troicki in the second round on Wednesday, saved all seven of the break points he faced and converted one of his eight opportunities to claim victory in one hour 44 minutes. "I'm really happy to reach the semi-finals here and if I'm lucky enough, why not make my first Tour final?" said the world number 112, who will face second seed Andreas Seppi tomorrow. Italy's Seppi thrashed eighth-seeded Japanese Tatsuma Ito 6-2 6-1 in less than an hour. But French qualifier Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who knocked out top seed Alexandr Dolgopolov yesterday, could not repeat his heroics, going down to giant Croatian Ivo Karlovic 7-6 6-3. Karlovic, who at 2.08m is one of the tallest players on the Tour, fired 23 aces against 116th-ranked Roger-Vasselin. — Reuters |
LONDON, Oct 19 — Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said English football's campaign against racism should be widened to include other insults.
MOSCOW, Oct 19 — Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki showed glimpses of her past form to beat last year's champion Dominika Cibulkova 6-2 6-7 6-1 in the Kremlin Cup quarter-finals today.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Sports To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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