Glasgow Times

Kamara speaks out on Kudela incident

- Chris Jack

GLEN KAMARA has broken his silence about the alleged racist abuse he received against Slavia Prague and admitted he wished he had walked off the park at Ibrox.

Kamara has claimed that he was called a ‘f ****** monkey’ by Ondrej Kudela as Steven Gerrard’s side were knocked out of the Europa League last month.

Slavia have defended their Czech defender – who will be banned for at least 10 games if found guilty by a UEFA disciplina­ry panel – and have accused Kamara of assaulting Kudela in the tunnel following the last 16 fixture.

That charge could result in a five-match ban for Kamara but it is the alleged comment from Kudela – and the targeted racial abuse he has been subjected to online in recent weeks – that is his main concern as spoke for the first time about the incident.

Kamara said: “I had so many different emotions and felt like a victim, I just felt like a little boy.

“It was a very weird feeling... it was such a big stage Europa league, a big tournament and it was... I don’t know what it’s called, really explain how I felt. Hopefully I never have to feel that again, really.

“If I could go back to the time of the game, I’d walk off the pitch a hundred percent.

“My manager was actually trying to get me off the pitch, but like I said, I was on my own on the pitch. I couldn’t hear anybody.

“And I was just different emotions. So I wasn’t listening... Because this kind of thing, shouldn’t be in the game. Um, you know, it’s, it’s an everyday life thing.

“I think, I don’t know if in our lifetime we will see it change, but if I can make a change in some way, I’ll do

“I haven’t paid much attention to what he’s done after this whole incident, but I’ve seen their fans, how they’ve reacted, and I’ll get [racist] abuse probably every day on my Instagram.

“Every day, every day easily, I’m not one that gets really affected by it, so I’m all right. But how the team has reacted and taken it. It’s sad to be honest.” it.

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