[lfc-news] Cisse: Racists won't stop me - Echo

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Liverpool Echo, 11 Aug 2005
Racists won't stop me - Cisse

DJIBRIL CISSE today condemned the racists who marred Liverpool's 3-1 in
Sofia last night and vowed: "They'll never grind me down."

CSKA Sofia are likely to be hit with a UEFA fine after the Reds made an
official complaint following the abuse aimed at their record signing.

Bulgarian supporters made monkey noises during the second half, and UEFA
delegates confirmed the incidents will be included in their match report.

Manager Rafa Benitez blasted the home supporters for their behaviour,
while Cisse branded his abusers 'stupid'.

"It's hurtful when it happens. It began when I tried to cross the ball
in the second half and they started to do all these monkey noises,"
explained Cisse, who scored Liverpool's opener.

"It's a shame this happens but there are a lot of stupid people
sometimes at these games and as a player you can't do anything about it.

"You can say UEFA should take stronger action when it happens, but I'm
not sure what they can do about it. You can't really stop these kind of
people doing this.

"It's not CSKA Sofia's fault and it's not their players' fault, so I
don't know what can be done. When it happens, I'm sorry for football
because no-one wants it.

"Normally I don't have this kind of problem. This is the first time
anything like this has happened to me in any game I've played.

"I think the only solution is to educate people so that they understand
they should not be doing this.

"I'm a strong enough person to deal with this and I don't let it affect
me. I'm just sad we have to talk about these issues rather than the
football."

On the pitch Cisse and Fernando Morientes struck to put Liverpool on the
verge of group stage qualification.

CSKA must now score at least three goals at Anfield on Tuesday.

Midfielder Xabi Alonso believes Morientes will silence the doubters with
a goal rush in the season ahead.

"It was a good night for Morientes," said Alonso. "It's always important
for strikers to score goals and they were very important for us. When
you are a striker at a big club, you will always get criticism if you
don't score, but he has remained focused and we're really happy for him.

"He's been the top scorer in the Champions League before and he has a
lot of motivation to repeat this with Liverpool.

"We all know how good he is." The Liverpool squad returned to Merseyside
this afternoon as the buildup begins to the Premiership opener at
Middlesbrough on Saturday tea-time.

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