[Niamh.]

Absolutely disgusting behaviour. I read one of those tweets and it was really really vile. Hope they catch a few of these assholes

Racist abuse of England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho & Bukayo Saka condemned by Boris Johnson and FA



The UK prime minister and the Football Association have condemned racist abuse aimed at England's Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka after the Euro 2020 final defeat by Italy.

All three players missed penalties in the 3-2 shootout loss and were targeted on social media after the game.

The Metropolitan Police is investigating the abuse and said "it will not be tolerated".

Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the abuse "appalling".

"This England team deserve to be lauded as heroes, not racially abused on social media," he said.

"Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves."

England lose shootout in Euro 2020 final
England's players have taken a knee before games at the Euros to highlight the fight against racial inequality.

The FA said it was "appalled" by the "online racism" of the three players following the defeat at Wembley.

It added: "We could not be clearer that anyone behind such disgusting behaviour is not welcome in following the team.

"We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible.

"We will continue to do everything we can to stamp discrimination out of the game, but we implore government to act quickly and bring in the appropriate legislation so this abuse has real life consequences.

"Social media companies need to step up and take accountability and action to ban abusers from their platforms, gather evidence that can lead to prosecution and support making their platforms free from this type of abhorrent abuse."

Rashford highlighted racial abuse he received on social media in May after losing the Europa League final with Manchester United.

And last year Sancho was among sport stars protesting against racism following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.

Social media companies have been criticised for a perceived lack of action on racist abuse on their platforms, and in April Instagram announced a tool to enable users to automatically filter out abusive messages from those they do not follow.

Following numerous instances of online abuse, a number of clubs, players, athletes and sporting bodies took part in a four-day boycott of social media in April to encourage companies to take a stronger stance against racist and sexist abuse.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57800431

[Cherie]

It's time social media got a grip on this. Scotland Yard are involved and it is not before time

[UserSince2005]

Disgusting.

Rashford deserves abuse for his personality. little mrs woke loser "feed the children because its not the parent responsibility" moaning.
Racial abuse is not acceptable.
And its lazy.
There is so much else to pull him up on other than his skin colour.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

Disgusting.

Rashford deserves abuse for his personality. little mrs woke loser "feed the children because its not the parent responsibility" moaning.
Racial abuse is not acceptable.
And its lazy.
There is so much else to pull him up on other than his skin colour.

He doesn't deserve abuse for trying to help underprivileged kids, get a grip

[UserSince2005]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

He doesn't deserve abuse or trying to help underprivileged kids, get a grip

its not his responsibility hes a fake just trying and make himself a celeb.
and now he has egg on his face because he couldn't achieve his actually responsibility of kicking a ball in the direction of a goal

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

its not his responsibility hes a fake just trying and make himself a celeb.
and now he has egg on his face because he couldn't achieve his actually responsibility of kicking a ball in the direction of a goal

He's already a celebrity regardless of helping anyone, I would argue that it's everyone's responsibility to try and help out those who need it. Good for him

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

its not his responsibility hes a fake just trying and make himself a celeb.
and now he has egg on his face because he couldn't achieve his actually responsibility of kicking a ball in the direction of a goal

Originally Posted by Niamh.

He's already a celebrity regardless of helping anyone, I would argue that it's everyone's responsibility to try and help out those who need it. Good for him

help out, ok


but Jamie Oliver already did take on obesity, with his whole healthier foods at schools thing


tbh someone like Rashford should just understand his football career should come first at all times, and side projects during his free time

but i guess everyone can learn from their mistakes, and i hope he'll practice on pens a lot more now

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

He doesn't deserve abuse for trying to help underprivileged kids, get a grip

The abuse is disgusting. People are actually horrific if they try to take Marcus' achievements for under privileged children away from him after a missed ****ing penalty. Says far more about the people saying these things than anything else

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

The abuse is disgusting. People are actually horrific if they try to take Marcus' achievements for under privileged children away from him after a missed ****ing penalty. Says far more about the people saying these things than anything else

Absolutely.

[Cherie]

If that pen had gone in we would all be applauding him, I am not a fan myself of waiting for the goalie to move though

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

The abuse is disgusting. People are actually horrific if they try to take Marcus' achievements for under privileged children away from him after a missed ****ing penalty. Says far more about the people saying these things than anything else

Absolutely right.

This really sickens me the racist abuse.
Yet there's still those who'll say it's not an issue in the sport.

[GoldHeart]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

The abuse is disgusting. People are actually horrific if they try to take Marcus' achievements for under privileged children away from him after a missed ****ing penalty. Says far more about the people saying these things than anything else

Anyone would think he's the only footballer to miss a penality in the history of football, I remember other players like Beckham etc missing a penality.

The racist abuse is disgusting but I knew people would resort to this vile behaviour just over football.
They don't deserve this treatment .

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by GoldHeart

Anyone would think he's the only footballer to miss a penality in the history of football, I remember other players like Beckham etc missing a penality.

The racist abuse is disgusting but I knew people would resort to this vile behaviour just over football.
They don't deserve this treatment .

Beckham got dogs abuse for ages after that miss

[Ammi]

…I read that Gareth Southgate is holding a press conference about this at 10.15am…on Sky, I think….not sure if it’s on other channels as well…

[LeatherTrumpet]

Anonymous platforms will always be plagued like this as there is no responsibility


If people thought that they would be found out and dealt with it would end immediately bar the odd drunk/drug related crazy

[Mitchell]

Absolutely disgusting, but completely unsurprising, whilst I love living in Britain, it’s hard to love the country when there’s so many bigoted pricks like these running about.

[LeatherTrumpet]

[The Slim Reaper]

Exhibit A

[Ammi]

…just listening to a bit of Gareth Southgate’s press conference …it was being discussed on This Morning and basically saying what you were saying, Slim…the racist language and terminology that Boris Johnson has often used himself and this is the leadership he has ‘led by example with’….and being very much a part of the issue….

[LeatherTrumpet]

if you google almost any country and add "Racist Trolls" you quicky realise this is not caused by a single government, its worldwide and is down to "anonymous platforms"

ask yourself how nasty and unpleasant this place would be if James said we could have a week with no moderation or comeback?

[Ammi]

…racism would exist anyway, even without a leader who has a history of using racist language/terminology….of course, but it should be addressed also when the government are looking at links and associations etc in their reports, which one recently said that there was no racist issues in the U.K….that the leader of the country that commissions the reports has been quoted for racism and homophobia in the past…


…it could be worse…?…is that the standards that make for a healthy or workable society or that make for equality etc….if our own children were being subjected to racist abuse at school, we would say to them…just think, if the staff wasn’t there, though…how nasty it would be, just think on that…

[The Slim Reaper]

No one has said it was caused by a single government, so straw men won't get you anywhere.

I will repeat, that the racial hatred and bigotry is being purposefully inflamed and pandered to purely for political gain, and the previous support for the racist boo boys confirms it.

No government invented racism, but plenty have used it.

[The Slim Reaper]

Again, as if 20 something generationally wealthy millionaire footballers are Marxists. Seriously, it's insane to use that as an excuse to side with the boo boys.

To continue making that excuse in the face of what we've witnessed just seems a little confusing.

[bitontheslide]

there is a big difference between booing a politically driven gesture and out and out abuse of players that make an error in a football match. Lets be clear, look at the abuse that beckham got when he got sent off in a world cup match, other players missing penalties have had similar abuse. It's not just racial, it happens to anyone that messes up

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

there is a big difference between booing a politically driven gesture and out and out abuse of players that make an error in a football match. Lets be clear, look at the abuse that beckham got when he got sent off in a world cup match, other players missing penalties have had similar abuse. It's not just racial, it happens to anyone that messes up

…hateful racial abuse is what’s being used though and it’s what the discussion is…it’s very specific to being abused for race…this isn’t about ‘messing up’ otherwise those players would have been criticised/abused for messing up but they weren’t….