停止种族主义言论(4)

But racist chanting can be harmful for players, supporters, and other people listening to or watching a sports game. It encourages bad opinions and bad behaviour.

It influences younger people at the game. It influences opinions in the community. Sports governing groups try to control bad things that happen between players.

They may ban a player for saying racist things. They will not let him play anymore.

They may even make the team pay an amount of money. Or they may ban a whole team from playing the sport.

But it is much harder to punish crowds of people - even when they are clearly doing bad things. Sports governing groups try to stop supporters who are chanting bad things.

But often, they are not able to do much to stop or control the chanting. They may not even know where the chant started.