Fifa have got a huge problem on their hands and they need to tackle it now or move the 2018 World Cup to another country.
Coming just days after Manchester City’s Yaya Toure was subjected to racial abuse during his clubs Champions League match against CSKA Moscow in the Russian capital, it seems as if the amount of prejudice and hate are endemic in the minds of Russian football fans, and that the authorities are not prepared to tackle the problem head on.
Just have a look at the shocking picture taken during last night’s game between Shinnik Yaroslavl and Spartak Moscow in which you can see fans in the stadium with a Nazi swastika flag.
If that was not bad enough the match turned violent needing riot police to enter the stadium as fans hurled missiles and chairs onto the pitch that you can see in the photo’s below.
Fifa need to take action now telling Russia they have one year to sort out their problems or else the World Cup will be played somewhere else.
