Question

Why were the football matches - between AC Milan and Roma in May 2013, the FA Cup fourth qualifying round match between Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town in October 2019, and between MSV Duisburg and VfL Osnabrück December 2021 - suspended or called off?

Answer 1

Fans in the stands chanted racial abuse and/or spat at players
The AC Milan-Roma match was suspended briefly after chants of racist abuse by Roma fans; the Haringey Borough-Yeovil Town match was called off when fans in the stands abused and spat at the Cameroonian goalkeeper; the MSV Duisburg-VfL Osnabrück match was called off when racial abuse from the stands was directed at one of the players. Racial abuse had been a feature of some top-level professional matches, and the response of officials and the teams was been increasingly to stop play.