Rescheduling matches so they finish before it gets dark would alleviate the issue and the league would be minded to move the kick-off time of a fixture if both clubs agreed. With the price of gas and electricity rocketing - and commercial bills not limited by a cap - there is growing concern about the cost of staging games in the autumn and winter, given the need for more lighting in particular.
The SPFL would be open to any requests to move league games, too.
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However, as the data suggests, racist behaviour is slowly being pushed out at a grassroot level which will provide hope that it can be extended to the professional realms of sport.It is unclear whether that status will continue later in the competition. Racism saw a big upshift and shows it’s slowly rising up as it rose from 184 claims (18/19) to 282 claims (19/20) which provided a 53.3% increase between the two seasons. In short, yes racism is getting worse and despite Kick It Out and Show Racism The Red Card’s best efforts to eradicate it. This produced a 62.5% increase in this type of abuse between the two sporting seasons. However, reports of sexualilty discrimination had increased by five claims over the 19/20 season compared to eight. On the other hand, grassroots sports had seen a downshift in discrimination as the 2019/20 season saw reports fall by 13.8% with 94 claims. While gender-related discrimination and religious abuse fell by 60% and 32.8%. Again, race was the leading issue with 282 claims (63.2%), 165 more reports than that regarding an individuals sexuality which came second with 117 claims (26.2%).īetween the two seasons, reports of abuse towards someone’s sexual preference had seen the biggest increase with 95%, closely followed by racism which increased by 53%. While disability (5.5%), gender (2.8%), religion (1.8%) and sexual orientation (7.3%) remained in the single digits with six, three, two and eight claims repectively.įast-forward to the 2019/20 season, the professional game had seen a 42% increase in discrimination compared to its predecessor. However, race was the majority of the years reports with 90 claims (82.6%). Whereas discrimination towards disability (0.9%) had three claims and gender-related abuse (1.6%) had five.ĭuring that time, football from a grassroots level only had 109 claims of dicrimination across the season. This was closely followed by abuse in regards to an individuals religion (19.5%) and sexual orientation (19.2%) with 61 and 60 claims respectively. In the 2018/19 football season, a total of 313 claims had been reported to Kick It Out with 184 of racist abuse making up 58.8% of that year’s total. However, in the 2020/21 season, racism – once again – reared its ugly head in sport as Alfredo Morelos, Rangers Football Club, was the alleged victim of racist abuse on social media. The annual report also looked at football from a grassroots level, which saw racist claims fall by 20% and overall discrimination decreased by 13.8%.
Despite games being placed on a temporary break from March 2020 to June 2020 due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In an annual report for the 2019/20 football season, Kick It Out had seen increased levels in discrimination involving race and sexual orientation in matches and social media. A close up of the ‘No room for racism’ logo on the shirt of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Raul Jimenez during the Premier League match at Bramall Lane, Sheffield.īetween 20, Kick It Out reported racism had seen a 53% increase compared to the 2018/19 season while all types of discrimination had seen a rise of 42%.
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