It was a grim scene at the Madrid derby once again on Sunday night, with the game suspended, after lighters were thrown at Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois. However that was not the only disgraceful incident at the Metropolitano.
As reported by Relevo, one fan in the stands was kicked out by the security staff after an altercation. A black Brazilian fan turned round to confront another fan who had been making monkey noises at one of the players, and as he tried to confront the fan making those noises, was removed by the security staff.
As reported by Relevo, a fan was kicked out of the Metropolitano last night. He confronted another fan over monkey chants towards a black player. #AtleticoMadrid #RealMadrid pic.twitter.com/mx4hQkqMwF
— Football España (@footballespana_) September 30, 2024
It is noted that the Brazilian fan was removed because of the violent nature of his confrontation, and the security staff were trying to prevent a fight. The instigator of the incident was not removed, as the security staff did not see any insults towards the players.
🚨🇦🇷🇧🇪 Diego Simeone: “Thibaut Courtois? The club will make a decision about the people involved in those incidents. We don’t need those people in the stands, but that doesn’t justify the actions. In my opinion, there should be a punishment for the one who provokes. Since they… pic.twitter.com/wjfMgbXGPM
— Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) September 29, 2024
It is a tricky situation that the ground staff have been put in, but the optics are certainly the wrong ones. While clearly if violence was on the table, the Brazilian fan had to be removed, the fact that the racist was not, makes it look like there is impunity for racism, and conssequences for confronting it, even if that loses the nuance of the situation. It remains to be seen whether Atletico Madrid will take action.
I Just wonder what’s the thing with atletico fans when ever they playing real @ home: do you see tebas has not done enough to curb these racist chants in la liga? Why generate so much heat during a derby? The club,coach,management still has alot to do to put sanity into the heads of their fans- infact, suspend these fans during any other games that’ll play with any records of racist chants or abnormal conducts by placing fines.
Diego Simeone is a poor loser in SPORT – that is exactly what this is… SPORT. He exhibited this exact same behaviour in 2014 when Real Madrid beat them in the CL final and Varane kicked the ball towards him. He is like a virus that has infected the other half of Madrid. It simply cannot be that one half of the great city of Madrid is this out of control, racist and mean. They are the same people… some households are split down the middle between the 2 teams. I think La Liga and Football in Spain should charge him with bringing disrepute to the City. Pay very careful attention to Simeone’s words towards Courtois because it is the same justification he used in the Vini Jnr racist case earlier. Like Trump he cannot disown these crazy fans that are nothing but fat hoodlums in masks. His team paying tribute to those fans after the match is utterly shameful.