It's not often but I've heard it when watching Sts Bradford back in the Hanley days
It was awkward at first as it was a big group of Sts lads but eventually prople started teli g them to shut up and they moved on.
It's bound to happen but so far rugby league fans have made it clear it isn't acceptable so has been pushed out.

It's been around for donkeys years and anyone denying it walks round with their fingers in their ears. I've had arguments with so many supporters of different teams that I wonder why I've never got a crack.

I remember David Barends when he played for Wakefield having monkey noises directed at him, appalling.

Agreed but relative to football we are a million times better. In football, it's organised and endemic and nobody steps in, in football mate you most certainly would have had a crack or fifty by now

Yep you're so right, but conversely when I've confronted racists at Wakey games the only people that have my back are my half a dozen mates. There aren't many police (compared with football) and the stewards aren't much help. As for getting cracked I've usually talked my way out of trouble, not had a scrap for 41yrs.

I too am a lover, not a fighter

Me too but the missus reckons I’m not very good at that either.

She told me the same

Boom boom.

I've had a season ticket for Barnsley FC for twenty years and sit in the East (family) stand. I can honestly say I've never heard a racist remark shouted out, although I have heard one or two mildly racist remarks ie "They've got a lot of s in their side", or words to that effect passed between fans in adjacent seats.

That may have been considered 'mildly racist' in the 70's; now it's just *actually* racist.

Although I do hear it at times at rugby grounds, I certainly don't think its rife.

Heard it down at Belle Vue, and it was targeted at the late Roy Powell, also heard it more recently against Jamie Jones Buchanan at Magic Weekend