Jason Lee of the Professional Footballers’ Association believes we have reached crisis stage as racist abuse of gamers on social networking proceeds.
Former striker Lee the Equalities Education Executive of the PFA, was speaking after Reading striker Yakou Meite, Tammy Abraham and Paul Pogba were lately targeted on social networking platforms.
The Manchester United Charlton’s and team-mate Marcus Rashford Lyle Taylor of pogba also have been subjected to racist abuse on the web.
Lee, who played with Watford and Nottingham Forest, welcomed to help eliminate the abuse of gamers, but believes more must be done to help address the problem.
“We’ve arrived at a place where it is crisis so far as we’re concerned,” Lee told Sky Sports News.
“Everybody needs to come to the table, we will need to try and thrash out it and come to a conclusion and try to eliminate what it is going on.
“To be honest to Twitter, they would have been one of the very first to get out to people and we have had two meetings with them and they were optimistic meetings.
“Coming from this, they have demonstrated a real willingness to work together and improve things and also to engage with the gamers.
“It’s important they talk to the players right. We can all talk on behalf of players but more importantly, if there is a dialogue we’ve established and opened, [it can] give players the chance to voice their concerns into the horse’s mouth.”
Twitter also have released a new statement in and the organisation Kick It Out to attempt to stop abuse of players.
“In the past two weeks, we have taken action on more than 700 examples of misuse and hateful conduct related to UK soccer,” it read.
“This informative article has no place on the services. We will continue to take action on the minority which try to undermine the dialogue for the majority.
“Working together with the PFA, we’ll participate in their participant training programme also will be linking a collection of educational sessions with its own membership to support the PFA’s ambition to attack the situation.
“Dealing with Kick It Out, we will continue our working relationship with UK policing to additional short them and provide training about our policies, processes and committed 24/7 reporting stations to law enforcement.
“we would like to play our part in controlling this improper behaviour – both online and offline – and will keep on engaging with partners and clubs, protecting the conversation out of abuse, and taking quick action on account which violate our rules.”
There are several events where gamers have been abused on the pitch recently, with monkey chants.
A part of this Inter ultras team’Curva Nord’ then insisted that the monkey chants directed at Lukaku by Cagliari fans were not supposed to be racist.
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