Despite the effect of the coronavirus pandemic that brought sport around the globe to a halt, reports of racist and homophobic abuse at football matches in Britain soared to a record high in the last year. | IOLsport
LONDON – Reports of racist and homophobic abuse at football matches in Britain soared to a record high in the last year, despite the disruption to the season from the coronavirus pandemic.
The rise comes amid global pressure over racism sparked by the Black Lives Matters protests, though advocates and LGBT+ fan groups said it was partly due to fans being more willing to report abuse, even by their own team’s supporters. “But obviously it’s quite alarming that we have seen pretty big increases when it comes to all manners of discrimination around football, which we do want to tackle.”
Reports of all types of discrimination on social media fell almost 24%. Kumar attributed this in part to faster action by companies to remove online abuse.
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