As a black football fan who grew up going to matches in the seventies and eighties, I know more than most about the beautiful game’s troubles with racism.

I can still remember my own club West Ham United being the first English Football League side to select three black players in their starting team on Easter Saturday 1972; and I can still recall, for two seasons in a row, a particular section of fans in the old west side stand ‘Sieg Heil’ saluting during every home game.