Soccer: Lower-tier team protests lack of penalty for racism

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 8 - A third-category Sardinian soccer team boycotted its match against a Sassari team Saturday in protest at the lack of penalties for monkey chants against a Gambian-born player in a match the previous weekend.
    The team, Gymnasium, refused to play after their player Ba was racially abused by the chants at Mamoiada last Sunday and the football league issued a suspended sentence after awarding the game to Gymnasium.
    "We were shocked. You think it could never happen to you, and yet it happened." club chairman Fabrizio Usai told ANSA. (ANSA).