These are sad times for us.
Football rife with overt racism again in Eastern Europe and closer to home in smaller numbers, potentially large numbers of rugby players eminating from a certain part of the world who clearly hold homophobic beliefs, and as we have seen in cricket with the Root incident, similar views from different parts of the world.
I don't want a witch hunt, but when you see a large number of pointy hat wearing green skinned ladies on brooms casting spells shouting "look at me, I am a witch" it is pretty hard to ignore them....