Now Toronto

On Sunday, Italy beat England in the Euro Cup final, Toronto’s Italian community went wild, and for a few very noisy hours it felt like European football mattered to everyone. And in Toronto, it really does matter to a lot of people … and so does the racist invective thrown by England supporters at their team’s players of colour immediately after the loss. Norm talks to Ainsley Romany, a teacher and soccer coach at the Athlete Institute in Orangeville, and Brendan Dunlop, a sportswriter who’s been covering Euro 2020 for the Toronto Star, about how that impacts Canadian kids from racialized communities dreaming of a future on the pitch.