England should take great credit for their response to a toxic atmosphere that led to two stoppages for racist chanting on a wretched night for football
Welcome to the new world. We came expecting a football match. What we got was a miserable occasion on a miserable night in a miserable stadium against miserable opposition played out to a miserable backdrop of recrimination and bad blood.
By the end this did not feel like a sporting event at all. It felt like an open sore, an affront to the basic idea of nations coming together to exchange flags, in a stadium transformed into a well of poison.
Written by Barney Ronay at Stadion Vasil Levski
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/oct/14/six-minutes-added-time-racism-england-bulgaria-euro-2020 under the title “Vile and disturbing Sofia spectacle will live long in sporting infamy | Barney Ronay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
