Race in Football Over the years we’ve witnessed racism in football and thought it is disappeared. Recently people have started to question its re-emergence, when racism just evolved to adapt to modernity. Racism seems to be very prominent in football. Raheem Sterling has been very vocal about his experience of how black footballers are treated and portrayed in media. Football is a microcosm of English society. The UK is a country that prides itself on being diverse and insist that it’s not racist, yet racism in football is so normalised to the point where there is rarely punishment for racist behaviour. On Sky Sports News in 2020 they still continue to discuss about racism in football when this issue was supposedly ‘in the past’. Black football players facing monkey chants and objects thrown at them like they are animals is dehumanizing, they shouldn’t have to either ; tolerate it or walk off the field , there should be a punitive approach to the disgusting behaviour of racist f