Kick It Out wants unified effort

Kick It Out has called for a unified effort from football to eradicate prejudice and hate from the game on the day it showcased its ‘Call Full Time On Hate’ initiative. 

Football’s equality and inclusion organisation has released its 2015/16 reporting statistics, which reveal an increase in discrimination incidents of 2.5 per cent from the previous year – from 393 to 402. Discrimination reports to Kick It Out have risen year-on-year since the organisation started collating statistics in 2012/13.

Kick It Out is especially concerned about discrimination and exclusion in many aspects of football at grassroots level with 73 incidents reported over the past year.

Reports of football-related social media discrimination to the organisation have also risen by 18 per cent with 194 incidents reported, highlighting, it says, how hate and prejudice have moved from the stadiums to online.

The organisation says the situation at grassroots level is being exacerbated by the recent worrying levels of hate and prejudice in society that negatively impact on the sport, with incidents of hate being witnessed every …

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