There are elements of racism and hooliganism in the "developed" footballing nations, but the fact is, if anyone had been wearing the racist clothes or holding the racist banners that were shown on Panorama last night in an English football game, the police would have used CCTV to identify and arrest the culprits immediately.
You can't even call it a vocal minority when you have huge banners being shown in the stadium and entire crowds making Nazi salutes and screaming sieg heil. When those Asian guys were getting the brick kicked out of them, did anyone step in? Nobody did anything about it.
In big cities in Eastern Europe like Warsaw or Moscow, I get the impression that racism, while still more prevalent than in the UK, isn't such a big problem. You have people like Emmanuel Olisadebe who is very popular in Poland. But when you go to these small coal mining Ukrainian towns...well let's just say that the people there don't interact with foreigners very often.
Just take a look at the attitude from one of our ex-players to see what I mean:
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11675_2213776,00.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ant-warns-Pavlyuchenko-dangers-Tottenham.html