North Melbourne's Majak Daw. Picture: Michael Dodge. Source: Getty Images
RACIST fans should expect their fellow AFL supporters to turn on them, AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou says.
The AFL boss is pleased supporters helped identify a Hawthorn supporter who was racially abusing North Melbourne players during Sunday's match.
The man was ejected from the MCG match and subsequently issued a penalty notice by Victoria police.
"There is no place for any discrimination in not just our game, but in society,'' Demetriou told reporters in Adelaide today.
"And the sooner people wake up to themselves, that it will be their fellow supporters that turn on them, the better. And that is what's happening.''
No North Melbourne or Hawthorn players heard the weekend abuse.
Demetriou felt a major shift last year in Collingwood's Dale Thomas' "significant moment" of dobbing in a Magpie supporter for racial abuse.
"This is how far people have moved,'' he said.
"And if people want to continue to go down the track of discriminating against people, abusing them, or vilifying them, then there will be no place for them in the game.
"They won't come to games, they won't be tolerated. They may as well just chuck in their membership and follow something else.''
Earlier today, North Melbourne coach Brad Scott implored football fans to continue to report racially abusive behaviour.
"We're passed that as a society. I'd like the commend the (Hawthorn) supporter because we're beyond keeping your mouth shut when you hear or see something like that. Report these people,'' he said.
"There's no place for that in our game. None of our players heard what was said, so they can't be offended by it, but I can't stress enough that there's no place for that in our game.
"If you hear it, report it. It's your responsibility, you shouldn't just sit idly by. It's everyone's responsibility to report it because we've got to stamp it out of our game. It has no place in footy and no place in society.''
-with Bruce Matthews
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