International week

It was a week for world cup qualifiers but unfortunately some fantastic football has been overshadowed by a couple of ridiculous and laughable incidences...

First, in England's U21 game against Serbia, fighting broke out after England scored the winning goal and it seems that Danny Rose was subjected to racist abuse of monkey chants. As the brawl continued players, coaches and even some fans jumped to the pitch. In the aftermath there is now a vendetta against the Serbian FA and in my opinion rightly so after they made outrageous claims of England players behaving inappropriately after scoring. Even if their downright disgraceful statements did have some solidity (which they don't) it would not excuse the Racism Rose had to face, they're denial is ridiculous due to the video evidence found of clear monkey sounds taken by a member of the crowed.
What has infuriated many people, including myself, is the fact that there is even a possibility of Serbia getting away with a fine... A mere slap on the wrist, sanctions need to be put in place to prevent this kind of abuse, fines are pointless and there needs to be much heftier penalties, such as a ban of their supporters or the national side itself.

On a lighter note, a more comedic crisis occurred on Tuesday concerning the postponing of the Poland v England match due to the waterlogged pitch, this may seem normal except from the fact that the stadium has a state of the art roof that takes no more than 15 minutes to close. Not only this, but they also have under pitch heating as well, so while the referee strode around in comic fashion continuously attempting to bounce a ball on what had become a swamp. By far the most alarming thing in the whole charade was the distinct lack of a decision making from the Polish FA, it should definitely not have taken them over an hour to realise that there was torrential rain pummelling the pitch forming what could have been described as a swimming pool... A pretty shameful day all round for both Serbian and Polish associations!