My friends and I were coming back from a night out in central London, it was about 2am and we were making the journey back on the number 25 bus (the worst nightbus in London, if you know – you know). There was a football match on that day and bus was worse than usual. We overheard some football fans talking about a player, saying how rubbish he was etc. The talk then descended to openly bashing him for his race. I won’t put what they said here because it was disgusting but my friend Anna* had enough and asked them to stop. The discussion became an argument and we quickly realised they were racially attacking a player on the team THEY SUPPORTED because they lost! We asked if they would say this if their team had won. They replied, “Nah course not, if we win – he’s one of ours!” They couldn’t even understand why this was so wrong.