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Manchester: Mandy Fisher didn’t expect to find herself crying in the middle of a suburban Manchester street today. But the mother of two football-mad young boys couldn’t stop tears flowing as she read the hundreds of messages stuck over a mural to Marcus Rashford.
“What’s happening here is really, really special,” Fisher says. “This is a moment where good people stand up and say ‘enough is enough’.”
Crowds gather at the newly repaired Marcus Rashford mural in Manchester.
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Rashford, a 23-year-old Manchester United striker who has arguably done more to advance race relations in Britain over the past year than any political leader, was one of three black players subjected to a torrent of online racial abuse after missing spot-kicks for England in Sunday’s Euro 2020 final.
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