Sport 23-11-2004 who: Birmingham City chairman David Sullivan what: Says Dwight Yorke claims have been blown out of proportion as police step in where: St Andrews Stadium, BIRMINGHAM when: Yesterday snippet: "If you said to me, `do you want someone to punch you in the face or make a racist comment?`, I`d take the racist comment," says Sullivan in The Guardian, which says he is "a man out of synch" and "at odds" with the club`s official viewpoint on racist abuse hurled at Birmingham`s striker at Ewood Park on Sunday. "I heard absolutely nothing [racist]. If three out of 22,000 people make racist comments that`s not very nice, but I go to football virtually every week and there is virtually no racist abuse at all." [... more]

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