“To be brutally honest, we see things like this every week,” says Kevin Yuan, a London-based Premier League video content creator.
High-profile athletes aren’t the only ones facing racist abuse. Fans spoke to BBC Sport about their post-football experiences.
Ewan and a female colleague were racially abused by Real Madrid supporters outside Wembley Stadium after the Champions League final in June.
Yuan produces soccer content for the Chinese media market and sings racist chants about Chinese women in Spanish to his colleagues (unbeknownst to him) at Madrid. He was filming his fans celebrating.
“I asked one fan what that chant meant and he said it was a Real Madrid chant, we are champions,” he said.
“The next day, my Spanish friends told me that this was actually a very racist song. I thought it was incredibly offensive.”
Ewan revealed that he had encountered a similar incident while filming at a club in the UK.
“I feel like it’s part of our job (to take abuse),” he said. “We shoot at different stadiums before and after games, and it seems like it happens literally every week.
“I don’t know if it’s because of the way I look or the way I talk.
“I’m in a chat group with Manchester United’s Chinese supporters, and there’s a saying that you’re very lucky if you avoid at least one racist incident during the season.
“It happens regardless of which team you support. I came to England in 2008 and have been going to games since then, but I feel as if I’m a foreigner. , I feel like I don’t fit in. I hope people understand how unsettling that is, and put yourself in my shoes. ”
