UEFA - Heavy Handed Punishment...?

Madrid Fined

"Real Madrid CF, meanwhile, have been fined €9,780 following the racist behaviour of some of their supporters during last month's UEFA Champions League game with Bayer 04 Leverkusen. UEFA had instigated disciplinary proceedings following an investigation into incidents at the Santiago Bernabéu on 23 November, which included racist chanting at the German club's black players. Some fans were also seen making Nazi salutes."

Copied and pasted from the official UEFA website:- uefa.com

For me, this is astonishing!

Real Madrid are one of the richest (if not the richest) clubs in the world today. They can boast of at least 6 of the world's greatest current players amongst their ranks, (Figo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Raul, Roberto Carlos and Casillas, in case anyone is mumbling away in the cheap seats..) who command payments from their club far in excess of anything we, as mere mortals, can ever begin to imagine.

So why the flipping fuck are UEFA fining a club whose wealth exceeds that of most African countries (and some lesser European ones too, I may humbly add..) such a paltry sum?

Jesus-effing-forest, what is ten thousand euros to a club like that?

Nothing. Nada. Nicht.

Yet Roma had to play 3 games behind closed doors for being unfortunate enough that a ref was actually hit by an object thrown during a game. If the thrown lighter had missed, absolutely nothing would have been done. Honestly, they are punished because the guy that threw it had a good aim...?

What.
The.
Fuck?

Yet a simple, unequivocal, undeniable affront to decent, dare I say it 'normal' football followers and fans alike, televised throughout the world (and elsewhere) is dealt with in such a derisory way by the rulers of our game in Europe....

What sort of message is UEFA sending out to the supporters of such reprehensible behaviour? The racists and bigots and neanderthal, knuckle-scraping, oxygen-thieving idiots who regularly think nothing of shouting racist and obnoxious abuse, safe in the knowledge that they are beyond reproach?