There needs to be some perspective about all this. As Brighton Sky Blue has pointed out, we are not returning to the bad old days of thousands of fans making monkey chants whenever a black player touches the ball, or throwing bananas onto the pitch or even going as far as refusing to buy a season ticket because the team you support has signed a black player, all of which were a common occurence back in the 1970s and 1980s, pionering black players such a Cyril Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendan Batson suffered horrendous abuse when they played, both from fans and other players and it certainly was a dangerous environemnt to even attend matches if you were black. Thankfully society and football has moved on for the better. What wer are really talking about is one high profile case, John Terry, and the resultant punishment meeted out to him, which seems to have upset a lot of players. It would help if the players involved in the "protest" had actually outlined their reasons for it, I find that, generally speaking, if you have a protest it's a good idea to 1) know yourself what it is about and 2) explain to other people/media what you are protesting against/for. Looking at it from the outside it just appears to be a hissy fit by a bunch of multi millionaires. There is not an epidemic of racism in the game, either on or off the pitch, and to make out that playing football in the premier league (or any of the other divisions) is akin to living under aparthied in South Africa is just very silly and counter productive.