Derby County is confronted with a return for recording Stefano Eranio, fired as a TV expert for racist remarks, in their new Walk of Fame, but omitting Jack Kirby, a keeper who tarted Hitler's Nazi regime on a pre-war tour through Germany.
The new position was unveiled in Pride Park prior to Saturday's championship match against Coventry.
It is designed to improve the RAMS heritage and to supplement images and images, already around the site to commemorate legends from the past, including Brian Clough, Dave Mackay and Steve Bloomer.
Fans were invited to nominate players and the first 12 Inductees were unveiled on Friday with their photos on the outer wall of the eastern position. The plan is to add more annually.
But not all fans were impressed by Eanio's photo in the first boar.
The Italian winger, a strong favorite with Derby fans for four years in Pride Park from 1997, was fired by the Swiss TV channel RSI after comments about Real Madrid Center Half Antonio Rudiger, who was then in Roma, during a 4-4 draw against Bayer Leverkusen in 2015.
“Black players, when they are in a line of defense, often make certain mistakes because they do not concentrate,” said Eranio, whose later attempts to clarify only worse.
“If I had to explain time, I would say that I meant that black players have never had a school of football in tactical terms that are similar to ours,” Eranio said.
'Rudiger read the situation poorly because black players are not used to paying attention to certain details. If they were as details oriented as we, they would dominate the sport because they all have it when it comes to strength and technology. '
John 'Jack' Kirby was born a keeper in 1909 who made 191 performances in nine years in Derby before the Second World War.
In 1934 the team toured through Germany and was stuck as the only player who is resisting the pressure to perform a Nazi greeting before each of the four games played in four different cities.
Instead, he made it a point to turn away from the flags that his teammates greet.
Kirby died in 1960 at the age of 50 and earlier this year his grave was restored thanks to fundraising led by Derbyfan, local historian, teacher and author Kal Singh Dhindsa, who campaigned to see Kirby's courage honored in Pride Park.
“Kirby was a symbol of resistance to the Nazis and fascists,” said Dhindsa. 'His recording would have been a source of immense pride and an excellent opportunity to teach everything.
'Instead, Derby County opened the locks to encourage more fans to think in the way Eranio expressed itself.
“That is not with me and personally I would be quite ashamed to see Kirby there if he was added at a later time in the company of Eranio.”
Dhindsa is subject to personal abuse after expressing his feelings on social media.
“There are many fans who feel the same as me, but are too scared to call it,” said Dhindsa. 'There are other fans who will only see a great football player and have only kept those in their heads.
'Then you have the ugly side of football that not only thinks that Eranio was a great football player, but fully agree with his comments from the past. Nothing will change their opinion, especially if someone like me has expressed these worries. I have heard the last day or so much of this types.
“Rejecting attention at every occasion to support Eranio and his views, happy to point my finger at me, to call me names, ask my loyalty and integrity from my club and my country.”
The ugly side of football brought his head to Anfield on the opening evening of the new Premier League season when Bournemouth attacker Antoine Semenyo was a target for racist abuse.
Dhindsa added: 'What bothers me the most is that this is not the first time I had to wonder how the club deals with certain parts of our fan base. I would not need to point this out for these kinds of things and to have them act accordingly. '
Derby County has been invited to comment.