“The arrests woke up a lot of people because some people just thought ‘I never thought it was wrong’ — that’s unbelievable — [or] ‘That wasn’t me’, as if football turns people into some different kind of person. ‘I’ve paid my money and I can say and do whatever I want at any time I want within that 90 minutes’. There is a level. You say that on the streets and you’d be arrested or put away.” Portsmouth defender Sol Campbell, on the need for tougher penalties for clubs whose supporters are convicted of racist chanting.
