Eto'o believes a strong response in the www.feelfootball.com 'What Fans Feel' survey could start a campaign to finally rid the game of racist abuse.

The 26-year-old striker, who has the backing of former Arsenal skipper Patrick Vieira, almost walked off the pitch at Real Zaragoza in February 2006 due to racist chants.

The chants were repeated two months later during Barcelona's encounter with Racing Santander.

Continued abuse has made him determined to act by drawing both fans and his fellow players into taking a hard line on the issue.

Eto'o told Feel Football: "If we experience this in football it means our society is rotten and that means we're in a dangerous situation. That's what we need to be fighting against. I think that football is a small thing, but society...just imagine!

"I am treated first and foremost as a footballer, as Samuel Eto'o, but away from the cameras a black man is suffering from racism and nobody cares. That's the problem.

"Promises have been made for change, for sanctions to be enforced, but the first move needs to be made and it needs to be made by those who are being subjected to racism. Part of me hopes that one day someone will manage to walk off the pitch (in protest)."

The Cameroon international also criticised some members of the media for "shooting down" his comments on the racist attacks he has suffered and called for them to change their attitude and support his cause.

"I think the media tried to shoot me down (in the past) as if I was making too much of it, but the whole time I was just expressing how I was feeling, something that no one at that time could have felt," he said.