IT is not easy to warm to some of today’s footballers, especially those that find it hard to resist conspicuous consumerism or consider that with enormous wealth comes permission to misbehave. That aside, in an age where many of the sins of the past are being addressed, racism, anti-semitism, homophobia, sexism and other isms are, rightly, no longer tolerated. Once again, football has let itself down and people are horrified that, in 2019, we are still seeing examples of unacceptable rascist abuse. This time it’s Tottenham versus Chelsea. Britain, since 2016, seems to have given license to bigots, closet racists, the ignorant and the myopic. Or maybe these people just feel that, in the spirit of xenophobia, they can comfortably come to the fore…