Going to cheer on Theo just too risky - Walcott brother and dad fear Nazi yobs in Ukraine at Euro 2012
Posted Friday, May 18, 2012 by The Sun
Training ... Ukraine thugs filmed by The Sun
Last night French ex-Newcastle ace Olivier Bernard, now an anti-racism campaigner, said: “It is sad to see but people are scared. Theo’s family may not be the only ones who are not going to travel.”
And Ged Grebby, chief executive of Show Racism The Red Card, said: “It is shocking that it has come to this for his family but it is probably a sensible precaution.”
Arsenal winger Theo, 23 — subjected to monkey taunts with other black stars in Bulgaria last year — is in the squad which will play France and Ukraine in the eastern mining city of Donetsk and Sweden in capital Kiev.
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