[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

[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…

[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

[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

[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

[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

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by 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

I knew he'd do that stutter run....I left the room when he stepped up as I knew it wouldn't go in. He had zero game time though....the decision to bring him on so late was not the best

[Ammi]

… ‘…Rashford said that one of the individuals who had sent him abuse was a teacher. “I’m more outraged that one of the abusers that left a mountain of monkey emojis in my DM is a maths teacher with an open profile. He teaches children!! And knows that he can freely racially abuse without consequence,”…’…

[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.

[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

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

… ‘…Rashford said that one of the individuals who had sent him abuse was a teacher. “I’m more outraged that one of the abusers that left a mountain of monkey emojis in my DM is a maths teacher with an open profile. He teaches children!! And knows that he can freely racially abuse without consequence,”…’…

Really? That's disgraceful, what the **** is wrong with people?

[The Slim Reaper]

In a country that demonises decency as wokeness and uses it as an attack, there will only ever be one result. Unless people start standing up to this nonsense, then we're in for a really dark couple of decades.

The PM and home secretary defended the people booing the players taking a knee, further encouraging them.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

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

It had nothing to do with obesity Nicky, it was providing free meals to under privileged kids who usually get school meals during the lockdown. Some of those kids only get a decent meal at school. So yes his football is important to sports fans but his "side project" actually fed kids who otherwise may have not eaten

[Ammi]

…that’s a different abuse incident actually…that article was in May….

https://www.theguardian.com/football...pa-league-loss

…so basically it’s a regular occurrence to receive racial abuse….in his words…’happening on a daily basis…’….and stands…(..or taking the knee…)…to highlight the extent of abuse isn’t necessary and is booed…?..

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

… ‘…Rashford said that one of the individuals who had sent him abuse was a teacher. “I’m more outraged that one of the abusers that left a mountain of monkey emojis in my DM is a maths teacher with an open profile. He teaches children!! And knows that he can freely racially abuse without consequence,”…’…

That was from some time ago wasn't it?

oh I see you have edited it now soz

[The Slim Reaper]

Gary Neville nailing it.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

In a country that demonises decency as wokeness and uses it as an attack, there will only ever be one result. Unless people start standing up to this nonsense, then we're in for a really dark couple of decades.

The PM and home secretary defended the people booing the players taking a knee, further encouraging them.

…it feels as though racism has to be ‘severe’ in its abuse or involving violence etc …the time to address these things is when they’re rearing their head at all because those are the seeds of beginnings that will grow and become so ugly….but sadly it isn’t always recognised as being an issue until it’s very extreme ….

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Gary Neville nailing it.

….I wasn’t aware actually that Boris had said that it was ‘ok to boo the taking the knee gesture…’….that’s pretty horrendous…

[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.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…it feels as though racism has to be ‘severe’ in its abuse or involving violence etc …the time to address these things is when they’re rearing their head at all because those are the seeds of beginnings that will grow and become so ugly….but sadly it isn’t always recognised as being an issue until it’s very extreme ….

Unfortunately, those racist grievances have been fed into and given credence to make up the base of the most powerful political party in the country with an unassailable majority. There is no way they can or will turn against the racists.

They have no interest in putting the genie back in the bottle.