Unsavoury goings on in Bulgaria

[Pearcey3]

Home, America, Russia....I could go on sadly. There seems to be a proper right wing rising at the moment all over the world.

It won’t be forever. Things will turn again but at the moment it’s grim.

[surge]

The one thing I don't want to see happen was the away fans "taunting" Bulgarian fans for their racist behaviour. Racism is evil and should be challenged but I think this is more effectively done by, at least in the moment, challenging racism itself rather than making it a case of our fans are good and your fans are bad. This would hopefully allow the good supporters/football officials in Bulgaria to take the really important stand against racism without feeling they are taking a stand against their own nation.

To clarify, there was a twitter post about Tory party conference recently where one talk was "the issue of Islamaphobia" and nine questions out of ten were about anti-Semitism in the Labour party: if the issue is serious enough then it shouldn't really be about "us" and "them" because it becomes too easy to point the finger at "them" rather than solving the issue for everyone.

Having said that, this is the first game I have wanted England to win in a long time.