I was talking to a Scottish friend yesterday who was at the game on Saturday. They were surrounded by England supporters one of which was using language that wasn’t polite to abuse Scotland and the Scottish. This tyrant continued until Scotland equalised, then  he quietened down. My friend is female as were many around her but at no point did anybody say anything to this vile person about his language or racist rantings. I’m sure there are many reverse situations but this sort of behaviour is out of order either way.

I'm pretty sure it's not racism, but totally agree on the point -- we always ask people not to talk like that if they do at HQ. But as others have said, the crowd has really changed in the 10 years I've been going regularly. We were in the upper tier on Sat, and there were far fewer of the old pink trouser brigade, which is a massive bonus - but there were a few groups of lads around who clearly would have been happier at the races, or boxing or somewhere else where being really obviously drunk and badly behaved is acceptable.