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mo4ch:>#Enough: Football stars announce 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online racial abuse | Mo4ch News

Some of football's biggest names, including David Beckham, Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford and Gareth Bale, have put their weight behind a new social media campaign aimed at highlighting online racial abuse.

The temporary absence of some of the game's top stars from social media in a 24-hour 'boycott' was organized by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA), and comes in the wake of several incidents in recent European fixtures which saw players targeted by some supporters with racist chanting and rhetoric.

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This has also made its way to social media, with more and more instances of players being subjected to vile abuse due to their ethnicity. 

Several additional Premier League players, Tottenham's Danny Rose, Manchester United's Jesse Lingard and Arsenal's Hector Bellerin have also lent their weight to the campaign.

Manchester United also shared a video regarding the #Enough movement, showing several of their top players speaking out against what appears to be a growing culture of racism in some of Europe's top leagues.

"Football is going through a time where we are still seeing discrimination throughout our game," the video, which appeared on Manchester United's Twitter page, said.

"It is just crazy that we are still speaking about these things still today."

The PFA has encouraged players to boycott social media between 9am BST on Friday and 9am BST on Saturday.

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FIFA, meanwhile, have supported the protest and say that they 'applaud' the measures taken by the PFA to help stamp racism out of the sport.

"We applaud the initiative of the English professional football players," FIFA said to the Associated Press. "FIFA is fully engaged in combating racism and any form of discrimination not only in football but society in general."


Source : RT Sport News

#Enough: Football stars announce 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online racial abuse

#Enough: Football stars announce 24-hour social media boycott in protest at online racial abuse