Anyone else catch the Santander v Barca game last night? Absolutely sickening amount of monkey noises being made anytime Eto'o got the ball and the chanting when he scored was shocking. Santander should get hammered but no doubt it will be another 'Spanish' punishment as always.

That is shocking. I think Britain should take pride as racisim here isn't tolerated and even the slightest hint of it is seriously dealt with.

im clueless on the subject but the Spanish dont seem to abuse the high number of 'Black' players from Brazil. But the African 'Black' players seem to get it tight. Or maybe it is just Etoo is a Lennon type figure and the racist card is the obvious way to get at him.

When he scored the goal (Barcas second) he ran towards the corner flag and kicked it to show how pissed off he was with all the abuse he was getting but that just made it worse. You could hear the monkey chants from the stands.

It's absolutely shocking, I don't know how the guy puts up with it.

Eto'o for Chelsea?

...not totally unrelated but there are two interesting sounding prog's on BBC4 tonight regarding other 'isms' in football - starting at 11.10 fascism in football, followed by communism in football at 12.10...time to set the video ( or sky+ ) kids.

The Santander manager came out and condemned it but Rikjaard said he never heard anything. Apparently trying to defuse the situation. Fine rumoured to be in the region of 60,000 EUROs - what is that in shiny new English pennies?

about 45K