The irony. Just before their final against Italy, the England football team took a knee on the field, a symbolic gesture that many other teams had also earlier replicated during the tournament to take a stand against racism.
But barely hours after England lost, three of its young players were the target of the most vicious racist attacks, both on social media there are reports that almost 2000 abusive tweets were posted after the game, and offline.
The mural of Marcus Rashford, one of the players to have missed a penalty in the final was defaced and an MP had to apologise after her message saying the player should have focused on perfecting his game rather than playing politics she was referring to Rashford’s high-profile campaign for free meals for poor students in schools last year, was leaked.
Why does nobody talk about the racist abuse aimed at Priti Patel?
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We learn more about society when we lose, far more than we learn when we win
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