If someone is racist, they should be punished - TomoriAC Milan's on-loan Chelsea defender Fikayo Tomori has called for more to be done to identify and punish social media users who racially abuse players. "With social media being so accessible to everyone, someone can make a fake account within five minutes and go there to spout racist abuse because someone made a mistake in the game," Tomori said. Manchester United forward Anthony Martial has been abused online twice in three weeks, while his United team-mates Marcus Rashford and Axel Tuanzebe have also been sent racist abuse. Tomori's Chelsea team-mates Antonio Rudiger and Reece James are another two players who have been targeted by abusive messages. Both organisations have said they are committed to tackling racist abuse on their platforms and Facebook, which owns Instagram, recently announced new measures to ban users who repeatedly abuse others.

Source: BBC February 15, 2021 19:40 UTC