I'd have to guess this was done to inflame the black players, but it only demonstrates ignorance on multiple levels. Monkeys have tails. Apes do not. So if those responsible were attempting to inflame, they should have made ape sounds - but racists aren't that bright.

A lot of Americans probably don't know this about Serbia, but imagine a nation full of backward rednecks. I mean welfare-sucking, trailer trash, unwashed, white-power rednecks. That's Serbia.

Mickey-1983943 i'am American mickey, i was deployed in kosovo and i seen what the truth really is over in that part of the world.

The serbian team should be banned from soccer and the England team should have just packed up and left since the opposing team showed no honor or sportsmanship...end of story. People that display this kind of behavior should be denied the right to participate in any sports or anything else for that matter.

First of all, let us consider the country that this happened in.

A 3rd world country that has beliefs like that has no business playing in world soccer matches.

It take a lot for a soccer crowd to get worse than English soccer fans, but the Serbs have succeeded in setting the bar to new depths. Refs just need to stop the game and assign the win to the opposing team when this happens ... don't let it play out.

in the end this makes serbians look like the monkeys. what kind of adult does this sort of thing? hmmm, i dont know, maybe the type that would commit ethnic cleansing and mass rapes of other groups....

Humans are evolving to the ape, not from it.

Sounds like the old South Africa. Of all Serbia should have learned from being victimized by the Nazi's in WWII. But don't look that way.

It's very simple.

Disqualify the offender, stop the match and move on until they want to win fair and square with good sportsmanship.

Next?

The US Marines went to Kandahar and then a Serbian soccer match broke out!

Just a quick reminder: it was a Serb who laid the basis for the First World War. The Serbs are historically the "trouble is my middle name" people in Europe. I would ban them from international soccer for 2 years and/or no transfers allowed (income for talented players).

Monkey chants!!! How infantile. The only way to stamp out this
type of imbecilic behaviour is to find people whom these mental dwarfs respect
and idolize and have them strongly reject racism and these types of childish
behaviour. Racists’ behaviour in the Caucasian people is deeply ingrained from
centuries of brain-clogging influences from a religion that taught that the
Lord-Creator of the Heavens and Earth had a Caucasian son which led to the
conclusion that The Creator must also be a Caucasian (a carryover from Greek
and Roman mythological gods into Christianity). Anyone who accepted that
foolish belief would then treat other ‘racial’ groups as inferiors and not
worthy to be respected as are the members of the Caucasian ‘race.’ The Caucasian
people have been subtly influenced by false religious concepts into believing
that it was their god given right to conquer and dominate other ethnic groups.
Remember the slogan "the white mans' burden?" That meant that only
the Caucasian race had the superior intelligence to rule the Earth. To those
who think the same way today, President Obama is an affront to them. Him being
president is a confirmation that everything thing that they have been led to
believe about the superiority of the Caucasian 'race' has been a lie. Intelligent
and righteous people from the Caucasian 'race' must stand up and bring to an
end this centuries old ignorant belief. The victims should not be the only ones
speaking out against racism.

Racist = Ignorance; which is worse than being stupid. Shame really

How many blacks are on the English team? Are they ringers or are there that many blacks in England now. Anyway, soccer fans over there are a bunch of hooligans. Look how wild Scotland and other countries get. Some of you are writing in a vein that you expect proper manners and good behavior at soccer matches.

No surprise here - the Serbians are a barbaric people, Kosovo was proof.

Despite what most people seem to believe our ancestors didn't descent from apes. It most likely is the opposite. Monkeys and apes descended from man. In the Holy Qur'aan G-D says:

'Say: "Shall I tell you who, in the sight of G-D, deserves a yet worse retribution than these? They whom G-D has rejected and whom HE has condemned, and whom HE has turned into apes and swine because they worshipped the powers of evil: these are yet worse in station, and farther astray from the right path [than the mockers]."'

Physcially the apes and pigs have much similarities with humans, but we are not descended from them.

In a world of constant war, terror and blatant disregard of human life, what in blazes do you expect? Civilized society evaporated over the last 100 years or so. Does anyone truly expect things to be better tomorrow? Not likely.

I've just crossed serbia off the list. Who on earth would give them tourist dollars?

How many cases like this does it take for people to figue it out - multiculturalism is a lie! Whether it is Nazis hating Jews, liberated women hating conservative men, blacks hating whites hating blacks, orientals hating anyone different at all - that's the way humanity is wired. Trying to deny and change it is just like trying to "retrain" a gay person - it's built into the system! Maybe we should be trying to accept the fact instead of denying it, and then figuring out how we can all work together, accepting that we are different!

I'm not excusing racism in any way, but when I visited a country that is not ethnically-diverse, I noticed that people are much more open about their racism.

chris65

"England has done a good job in the last 20 years of reducing, almost stamping out this kind of behavior at home. Unfortunately, many parts of europe, especially eastern europe, are still in the dark ages. Look at the way black people are treated in russia, for instance. I am a white european soccer fan, but I would be ashamed to be associated with those retards like the serbian fans. Disgraceful."

lol - he is anti racism but calls the Serbs "retards"

Oh, this article is not about me. Wow maybe the comments should be about the Serbian fans, not you.

...Why in the heck does everybody have to be so darned sensitive?

Remove Serbia from competition. Case closed.