Abuse Quote by John Barnes

I was brought up in a football environment where we saw a lot of racism - whether it was abuse from other players or…

— Chris Hughton

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist…

— John Barnes

When I started at Portsmouth in 1974 there was a strong National Front element in the crowd and they would abuse me even though…

— Chris Kamara

Sometimes, the fact that you're a footballer makes you think that racism can't happen to you because you bring that passion and you express…

— Samuel Eto'o

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

— Neil Warnock

I have been racially abused by fans and players, but sometimes it's just a way to get under your skin.

— Edgar Davids

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the…

— Ruud Gullit

You can get racially abused 10 times before you even reach the football stadium. If you've been confronted every day with something like that,…

— Edgar Davids

The thing is that racism is systematic, so of course it sometimes manifested itself within the clubs. But I have certainly experienced racism outside…

— Craig Seymour

I was one of the first black players in Italian football. But I didn't suffer any racism.

— Marcel Desailly

It's very difficult, but if I'm talking from my personal view and what I do as a job, which is playing football, how the…

— Dominic Calvert-Lewin

When we talk about racists, first, racists still exist on this earth. They're in Europe and in Austria and Germany where we play, in…

— David Alaba