The London derby between Tottenham and Chelsea in the run-up to Christmas was the latest English football match to be marred by incidents of racism. Figures obtained by the Mirror using Freedom of Information requests suggests the number of incidents has almost doubled in just four seasons. A request for the number of racist incidents reported by officers at football games over the last four seasons was sent to every police force who cover a Premier League or Football League club. There were 193 race hate crime incidents reported in 2018/19, up 47% from 131 the year before. Racist incidents recordedSeason // Incidents15/16 // 3316/17 // 3217/18 // 4218/19 // 63

Source: Daily Mirror January 02, 2020 17:37 UTC