Tag: England football team

Some labelled Morgan a ‘disgrace’ for the ‘patronising’ joke

“You can go to a game and if you throw a banana on a pitch, there'll be repercussions. Online, you can post a banana to a black player and you're not going to get punished. How is that right? Can't be," the former England footballer and TV pundit said.

"Drinking the tears of the racists."

"He's absolutely brilliant," Scott said. "He's helped my family and I can't thank him enough."

“I knew instantly the kind of hate that I was about to receive and that is a sad reality that your powerful platforms are not doing enough to stop these messages."

"To all the young people who have received similar abuse, hold your heads up high and keep chasing the dream.”

"Our England team stood up for all of us - now we must stand up for them."

"True fans – of which there are so many – will help stamp out this mockery and abuse and will lift up our fallen stars."

From the newsletter: Still, after all this time, the treatment of people of colour remains brutally transactional.