abused by a minimum - of 50 bulgarians. so, he s very aware of the l racist issues in this country and in other countries far more than many politicians. - well, mayowa quadri is a freelance football writer and a broadcaster. he s also editorial officer at versus, which describes itself as a platform championing the future of football. mayowa, i know you don t have the backing of a major newspaper like the times, for example, so i imagine that you don t get the same access to top players, or do you? and i wonder how helpful footballers social media profiles are to you. we do to a certain extent. i think ultimately, that has come across social media. i feel that a lot more footballers are going to be in control of the narrative around themselves and tell authentic stories. i mean, print does an amazing job, but of course, broadcasters traditionally are focused on the result and the matter of facts of the game, whereas new media can focus on societal issues, personal habits and things t
anywhere, and they don t it on instagram. they quickly removed comments on sunday and will continue to take action against those who break their rules. mayowa, i wanted to ask you why a footballer would want to be on social media. can you explain the upside for them? there are many. you don t have to look any further than marcus rashford. he managed to galvanise the nation that there was a massive issue with food poverty in the country. he was able to speak to his fans via social media. you can look at other footballers who enable, jordan henderson, in terms of everything he speaks about. he has been able to do that because he can use his social media. there s been times where he wasn t playing because he s injured.
is spend more money on human moderators because the automatic algorithms are not working. they need to put their hands in their extremely deep pockets and pay more people to do better at this, but that s obviously a very expensive solution. mayowa quadri, is this something that you were actually expecting when events unfolded on sunday night? 100%. at first dawned on me probably before this. i just thought to myself, it could go absolutely soui’. against liverpool very early on, and it s something that people just come to expect. i think the situation in particular was even harder because it s the first major final for england. you ve got loads of people out going to watch the game because you ve not have this moment before. i personally had to message friends after the first penalty saying leave now, because i don t know what s going to happen. we saw reports of some