Daily Stormer
April 24, 2015
The entire world stands in confused shock as they realize there are groups of White people who do not hate themselves.
Shooting the messenger might as well be the national sport in Croatia. As Zoran Stevanovic, who works with Uefa as head of the Fare (Football Against Racism in Europe) network in Croatia found out, there seems to be a widespread feeling in the country that racism isn’t really that big a deal unless someone from the outside finds out about it. After Croatia were ordered by Uefa to play their next home game, against Italy in June, behind closed doors, Stevanovic found himself targeted by CFF, the national football federation.
His crime? Telling on Croatia supporters’ racist behaviour during the qualifier against Norway on 28 March – or so the CFF claimed. It started two Wednesdays ago, after news of the ban emerged. “We are shocked by this draconian punishment for five firecrackers and two racist chants,” Damir Vrbanovic, the CFF executive president, told Jutarnji list daily, adding that the federation would appeal and that the man responsible for bringing Uefa’s attention to racist chants was Zoran Stevanovic.
Two days later the CFF addressed an open letter to Stevanovic, starting with: “It is clear to us that your organisation makes a living off informing Uefa against Croatia supporters. It is clear that, in that fight, you won’t hesitate to use the battle against racism as a cover, without feeling any guilt, for your agenda to have Croatia national team play its home games without fans …”
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After Vrbanovic accused Stevanovic of being a “grass”, Uefa’s website was inundated with “Za dom spremni” comments and an angry lynch mob formed on social networks, calling the Fare man a “Serb” and a “traitor”. Part of the media joined in, albeit in a more subtle way, despite Stevanovic saying it wasn’t he who reported it and explaining that the network doesn’t really work that way.
In the end, Fare headquarters released a statement, saying it had sent two independent observers to the Croatia v Norway game. “Fare observers are highly trained and experienced individuals who are independent and carry no affiliation to any clubs or national teams involved in the matches they observe,” the statement said. “Our member groups are unconnected with the action taken by football authorities and should not be subject to recriminations of any kind.”
I lol’d.
Seriously though, sending spies to sports matches to make sure no one in the audience says something offensive? And then just look at the way the Guardian phrases it.
We truly are living in 1984.