Jason Lee of the Professional Footballers’ Association believes as racist abuse of players on social networking proceeds, we have reached crisis stage.
After Reading striker Yakou Meite, Tammy Abraham and Paul Pogba were lately targeted on media platforms former striker Lee the Equalities Education Executive of the PFA, was talking.
Pogba’s Manchester United team-mate Marcus Rashford and Charlton’s Lyle Taylor have also been subjected to racist abuse online.
Lee, who played for Nottingham Forest and Watford, welcomed the meetings that the PFA have had Twitter to help eliminate the abuse of players, but feels more.
“We have arrived at a point where it’s crisis as far as we’re concerned,” Lee told Sky Sports News.
“Everybody should come to the table, we will need to try and thrash it out and come to a conclusion and attempt to eradicate 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 together and they were positive meetings.
“Coming from that, they’ve shown a genuine willingness to work with ourselves and enhance things and also to participate with the players.
“It is important they speak to the players directly. We can all speak on behalf of players but more importantly, if there is a dialogue we’ve created and opened, [it may ] give gamers the chance to voice their concerns to the horse’s mouth.”
Twitter have also released a statement in and the anti-racism organisation Kick Out to attempt to stop abuse of players in their own stage.
“In the last two weeks, we’ve taken action on over 700 illustrations of abuse and hateful conduct associated with UK football,” it read.
“This vile content has no place on the services. We will continue to take speedy action on the minority which attempt to undermine the dialogue for most.
“Working together with the PFA, we will participate in their participant training programme and will be joining a series of educational sessions using its own membership to encourage the PFA’s vision to attack the problem.
“Working 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 for law enforcement.
“we would like to play our role in curbing this improper behaviour – both online and offline – and will keep on engaging with partners and clubs, protecting the dialogue out of misuse, and taking rapid action on accounts which violate our rules.”
There are numerous events where players have been racially abused on the pitch lately, with monkey chants.
A part of the Inter ultras team’Curva Nord’ insisted the monkey chants aimed at Lukaku by Cagliari fans weren’t intended to be racist.
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