Racism has no place in football just as it has no place in any workplace anywhere
On Sunday, The Sunday Mirror published a feature on three Leicester City Football Club players were filmed partaking in a sex orgy in Thailand. During the footage, the teammates used racist language and frankly brought not only themselves, but also football into disrepute.
Given that Leicester City is owned by the Duty Free billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and his son Aiyawatt – themselves Thai by origin – and that their club is sponsored by the Tourism Authority of Thailand, not only were there actions offensive, they were also potentially damaging to their employer.
Of the antics of Tom Hopper, James Pearson and Adam Smith, one of Thailand’s most famous former football players, commented:
“This incident is unforgivable for a professional footballer because if you’re a professional footballer you usually sign a contract which says you’re forbidden to do certain things. The professional footballer must be able to concentrate, be confident, have vision and be responsible and have discipline and should not act badly in public”.
Hopper, Pearson and Smith have since apologised, but this is not enough. There is no place for racism in any workplace and it will send nothing but the wrong signal if this trio of bigots are not anything other than promptly sacked.
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