Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has vowed to help kick racism out of football in light of a section of Tottenham Hotspur fans abusing former player Sol Campbell in their Premier League defeat to Portsmouth on Sunday at Fratton Park.
Wenger signed Campbell from bitter North London rivals Spurs in 2001, which still rankles with some Tottenham fans, but the Gunners manager defended Campbell and wants to see racism kicked out of football. With stadium bans being a good solution against the minority of guilty individuals.
However, Wenger has also claimed that he believes English football has a much better attitude towards racism, with the Frenchman insisting that other European countries are far more permissive.
“My reaction is that abuse cannot be tolerated from anybody towards anybody in the world,” said Wenger.
“How can you fight against it? You can single out people who do it.
“You can punish them individually by not letting them in, then maybe single out a group of people who go from game to game and do it.
“Sometimes stupidity is contagious as well and sometimes in the crowd there is a competition to see who can be more stupid.
“That is why you should not let these people be together. There is, though, a big tolerance and the abuse only becomes singled out when it is racism.
“That is not the only abuse which you get in the stadium, but maybe people only get touched by it when it is racism. Insults of any way should not be tolerated either."
“The racist abuse is much worse in some other countries than in England. I believe that England has shown the right direction and the right way by not tolerating it and has done much more than any other country maybe in the game.
“That's why the problem we saw comes up again because people don't accept it. In this country I find they are a model to copy in (other) countries."
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