racism in sport

I read this worrying article today on the bbc news website:

"French football clubs and the authorities have vowed to clamp down on football hooliganism in France after a lethal confrontation between police and supporters of the Paris Saint-Germain team.

"Some 100 supporters of the team chased a Jewish man, shouting racist and anti-Semitic slogans, after their side lost 4-2 to Hapoel Tel Aviv last Thursday.

"A black plain-clothes police officer who tried to protect the French fan of the visiting Israeli team also became the focus of the crowd's anger.

"When he too came under verbal and physical attack, he drew his gun amid the chaos and shot and killed one Paris Saint-Germain supporter and seriously injured another.

"France was horrified by the picture of football-related violence, racism and anti-Semitism revealed by the tragic incident."

The whole incident is a horrible reminder of the ever present existence of racism in sport - in addition to this England Cricketers Panasar and Mahmood had racist abuse shouted at them at the ashes in Australia last week.

Things don't seem to as bad as this in the UK, but racism is still bubbling under the surface in some spoting areas - why dont you see more ethnic minorities going to football matches, and why are there no South Asian footballers?