Race Row: Rio vs Arsenal’s Fabregas

Cameroon’s Idriss Carlos Kameni, who was abused while playing for Espanyol against Atlético Madrid, who were fined €6000.

But the idea that fans in Spain are racist is "extreme" apparently.

Ferdinand has admirably said the England team are prepared to play anywhere, in light of a friendly with Spain being announced, however says the team have plenty of bad memories of that encounter in 2004.

“Going back to Madrid is not a problem,” he said. “Wherever the FA ask us to play isn’t a problem. The players won’t mind that. Everyone knows what happened last time. If we did go back there, it’d be nice to imagine that the same kind of stuff that happened to the black players last time doesn’t happen again. You remember different games for different reasons. That one was remembered for the wrong reasons, which isn’t nice. The Bernabeu holds a lot of great memories for different players and fans across the world, but those were bad memories for us from that one international.”

"Race Row: Rio vs Arsenal’s Fabregas" was originally published at The Republik of Mancunia.

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