今日のテキスト BIASED BANNER PUNISHMENT

One of Japan's top professional soccer clubs has got a penalty for unsportsmanlike behavior. The Urawa Reds must now play a match in an empty stadium because some fans showed prejudice against foreigners.
A banner reading "Japanese only" was displayed last Saturday at the Saitama Stadium near Tokyo.
J. League executives reprimanded the club and ordered their March 23rd home game against Shimizu S-Pulse to be played without any fans in the stands.

(Mitsuru Murai / Chairman, J. League)
"Any foreigner seeing that language would have taken it as discrimination. I think it was discrimination, too."

He says Urawa officials failed to remove the banner until the end of Saturday's game. The club's president apologized.

(Keizo Fuchita / President, Urawa Red Diamonds)
"We had not paid enough attention to the problem of discrimination. We thought we were ready to deal with it, but we were not."

Club officials gave an indefinite ban to three supporters who had put up the sign, and they won't allow any fans to bring flags or banners to matches.

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