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Racism & Football: A Conversation.

An article by Moses Teminijesu.  It is simple, you are tired of hearing of this occurrence but at every uproar about racism from a top football league element to a footballer of colour, you cry foul on the media. Few days after the backlash and solidarity chants for the footballer by his club and fans, everything dies down it becomes a thing of the past until it recurs. Rinse and repeat! Rinse and repeat! It's tiring and exhaustive, the proportional efforts by the media and people in order to curb this issue can now be tagged as a "bandwagon effect" or a "thorough appeal to emotion" of the actual perpetrators. Has "Racism in Football" become mere propaganda that can be exploited?  Football is the beautiful game and it is ours! It is the most unifying factor despite differences in race, colour, tribe, clan or continent. It harnesses a world of healthy competition amongst different people from all around the world and brings them to a center stage in whi