Jason Lee of the Professional Footballers’ Association believes we’ve reached crisis point as abuse of gamers on media continues.
Former striker Lee, today the Equalities Education Executive of the PFA, was speaking after Reading striker Yakou Meite, Tammy Abraham and Paul Pogba were recently targeted on media platforms.
The Manchester United team-mate Marcus Rashford along with Charlton’s Lyle Taylor of pogba also have been subjected to racist abuse online.
Lee, who played for Watford and Nottingham Forest, welcomed the encounters the PFA have had Twitter to help eradicate the abuse of players, but believes .
“We have come to a point where it is crisis so far as we are concerned,” Lee told Sky Sports News.
“Everyone should come to the table, we will need to attempt to thrash out it and come to some conclusion and try to eliminate what it is happening.
“To be fair to Twitter, they’d have been among the very first to get out to people and we’ve had two encounters together and they were optimistic encounters.
“Coming out of this, they’ve shown a genuine willingness to work with ourselves and enhance things and to participate with the players.
“It’s important they talk to the players right. We can all speak on behalf of players but more importantly, if there’s a dialogue we’ve established and opened, [it may ] give gamers the chance to voice their concerns into the horse’s mouth.”
Twitter also have released a new statement in and the anti-racism organisation Kick Out to try and stop abuse of players.
“In the previous two weeks, we’ve taken action on over 700 cases of abuse and hateful conduct associated with UK football,” it read.
“This vile content has no place on the service. We’ll continue to take action.
“Working together with the PFA, we’ll take part in their participant coaching programme and will be linking a string of educational sessions using its own membership to encourage the PFA’s vision to attack the situation.
“Working with Kick It Out, we’ll continue our working relationship with UK policing to additional short them and offer training about our policies, procedures and committed 24/7 reporting stations to law enforcement.
“we would like to play our role in controlling this improper behaviour – both online and offline – and will keep on engaging with clubs and partners, protecting the conversation from abuse, and taking quick action on account that break our rules.”
There have been a number of events where gamers have been abused on the pitch lately, with monkey chants.
A section of the Inter ultras group’Curva Nord’ insisted that the monkey chants were not supposed to be racist.
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