All it takes is perhaps just a sudden unexpected loss in a football match, not a battle lost in a world war, to expose the crumbling core at the heart of a crippled humanity.
Last minute surprise replacement for Eric Bailly, Axel Tuanzebe, suffered racial abuse after Manchester United’s shock defeat to Sheffield United at Old Trafford on Wednesay.
Manchester United’s Axel Tuanzebe immediately deleted his Twitter account and removed a post on Instagram after the defender was bombarded with racist abuse following his side’s defeat to Sheffield United on Wednesday night.
The centre-back was a last minute draft into Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s starting XI after Eric Bailly suffered an injury on the eve of the game. Tuanzebe, like many others among his supposed dazzling peers at Old Trafford, failed to impress during the shock defeat to the Blades and Oliver Burke’s winner ten minutes from time deflected off the defender’s thigh into the net.
Although at worst to be faulted for being caught off guard at a crucial time when his reflexes should have been razor keen, the defender was but just one of a string of way-below-par performers in a totally lacklustre United side that lacked the recent come-back-from-behind play that had catapulted them to the top of the Premier League.
Obviously the entire team, not forgetting the manager, are accountable for the humiliating loss, but sadly some rotten apples among the United fans went online to target their racially-slanted abuse at Tuanzebe and the defender’s post-match Instagram post was inundated with replies of the derogatory monkey emoji and other racially-motivated reactions.
Though some fans came staunchly to Tuanzebe’s defence, the centre-back swiftly deleted the post and disabled his Twitter account.
For those ugly, crass idiots who are not in the know, Tuanzebe was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but had relocated to the UK at the age of four. The defender joined United’s academy at the age of eight and made his first team debut for the club under Jose Mourinho in 2017. Tuanzebe had gone on to captain his UK boyhood club, who he’s made 30 appearances for in the first team.
And even if he or any other player never had a UK heritage and upbringing, which is clearly not so in his case, it’s damned high time to extirpate this deep-rooted racist sentiment that continues to run deep under a deceptive guise of acceptance.
NO TIME FOR RACISM!!!
Read more:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK |
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/