An online article by the BBC, examing the differences between Cricket and Football

I was reading BBC sport online and I found a delightful article by Johnathon Stevenson which points out why football should take a back seat to the Cricket which currently has England on the edge of their seats at the moment.

What I loved about reading the article was the pathetic truth that football exhibits some of the ugliest scenes in sport, whilst on the other hand displaying the work of art that is an entertaining football game.

In Cricket on the other hand, such deliquent images as the one your eyes are probably staring at right now are rarley present. There are not the 22 men brawls when a player is fouled, the players do not dish out fowl lanague when a decision by a match official does not go their way - and most importantly there is a greater mutual respect between the opposition.

The reason this article strikes an emotional chord for me is because it brings to mind the vicious problems that exist in football. The main one being racism - football's ugliest face. We have seen it recently in Russia when Liverpool played there, we have seen it in Spain, when the Spanish national coach labelled Thierry Henry a "black sh*t", and we even got a taste of racism in the premiership when Dwight Yorke returned to Ewood Park, and received monkey chants from the Rovers faithful. Ridiculous behaviour.

There is not much to say about racism, besides it being the most disgusting piece of a global sport. Ironically, more ethnic minorities play football professionaly than caucasians, though such a poignant statement should not be needed to slap the high beams on a problem that cannot be stamped out of the "beautiful" game. The British media themselves were even exposed when Ron Atkinson's off air blast at Chelsea's Marcel Dessailly, apparently for "poor defending" in a Champions League game against Monaco, (a fuc*ing lazy ni**er) raised specific questions about the elevation of racism at the very top of the game. Pathetic once again, on football's part.

So when the FA are asking themselves why they are seeing empty seats at football grounds around the Premiership, consider this - there are some people in Britain who would rather spend a morally satisfying afternoon supporting their country defeat Austrailia, rather than spend 90 mins listening to racist yobs crying monkey chants to players of a different colour.

Where would you rather put your passion?