Racist abuse targets 3 English players who missed penalties

Racist cowards, losers and scum. Inevitable that the Black players were scapegoated. I bet these were the same type of animals booing all through their opponents anthems, and while the players "took a knee".

Hunt them down and charge the filth. They shouldnt be allowed to bring shame on the England teams great achievement.

We should not make racist remarks toward the black players.

Let's however think about football in England and the kneeling. The only reason the footballers are still kneeling is that when it started there were no fans in the stadiums to stop it from happening. Those fans only got the chance to show they were against the BLM movement during the EURO's.

If people think the views of people on social media is a real representation of a nation they truely need to get out more.

If you think that you can remove predudice by calling those people out as 'low educated idiots' then expect it to be here for a long time to come. Most of us live in Japan and deal with low level predudice on a daily basis. I was removed from a job I had for two years because I was not Japanese. I have sat at hello work when they have been arranging a job for me and as soon as my name is mentioned there is a conversation about if the job is still available.

As for the abuse these players are getting it is wrong but they do not have to use social media and if they do they could quite easily afford to pay someone a good wage to read and delete everything before they get to see it. In fact I am sure they could also afford to have someone read all the papers and just cut out the stuff they think would be of interest to them.

They missed penalties and that would have upset the fans and the best thing they could have done is taken a few days off social medai or any media and spent it with their family and friends instead. Actually I expect they have and this is just a media story they could easily go away if not stoked.

Hardly surprising, soccer fans from England tend to be some of the most unsportsmanlike and crude sporting fans around. There's footage of them booing Denmark's anthem, with Danish fans being spit upon and harassed.

Systemic racism. And typical of what social media allows people to get away with. Poor the 3 guys who missed. Will haunt them for the rest of their lives.

Hurling any kind of abuse is infantile. Racist abuse doubly so because it isn't even clever.

I am glad they lost because taking a knee is virtue signalling of the lowest order.

Having a shootout to decide any team sport is stupid. Double so when it is a game with consequences. Triple so for a championship match. Fans want to see the best TEAM, not the best/luckiest shot.

Having a shootout to decide any team sport is stupid. Double so when it is a game with consequences. Triple so for a championship match. Fans want to see the best TEAM, not the best/luckiest shot.

Agreed. They should extend tied championships at LEAST 20 minutes before going to a shootout.

No to shootouts at all. Play till one team scores. All these 'innovative' ways that pro sports use to end tie games are idiocy. The true purpose isn't to be exciting to the fans, but to fit the games into tv time slots. True sports fans would LOVE to see a match go for 3 extra periods if necessary, as long as a real winner is found. No shame in losing that way, to a better side. But the TV execs won't do it.

That may be part of the frustration for England. Losing to a better team- it happens. Losing to a lucky shot in a shootout? Frustrating! A year of preparation and sweat gone in 3 seconds.

I have to agree entirely with Attilathehungry ( nice name BTW)

How deserved and appropriate this after ‘taking the knee’ and then losing the game

and how stupid a game of this order being decided by chance like this.

Agreed. They should extend tied championships at LEAST 20 minutes before going to a shootout.

They already extend it by 30 minutes.

Anyway, the racist trash are as predictable as ever. Keep educating but some just don’t have the IQ to take it on board.

The obvious thing to say here is that racism persists and that is why the team continues to take the knee. Something which people in the UK government were criticizing them for just a few short weeks ago.

The Japanese basketball star Hachimura said he gets racist messages "almost every day" on social media. This is a problem worldwide.

Just what happened to 'Sensational' British. The reason why England lost is because of loudy annoying disrespectful British fans. They should just stay gentlemen like in the 50s,60s then they will win.

Anyway, i don't know for how long British going to avoid ordering pizza but i am pretty sure the owner of Chinese takeaway will be smiling more.

 were subjected to racist abuse online

nothing new here

Attila, you have a point here. In tennis, there has been a lot of debate about tiebreaks at grand slams, and finally they broke the tradition and introduced them. Both for logistics (it is difficult to have a final stretched over a few days), TV ratings, spectators, and most importantly, players well being. Old school boxing was the same, they were fighting until one could not stand anymore. Some compromise is necessary.

All through the tournament this has been simmering.

I knew when the shootout finished that this was going to happen.

Too much booze and cheap cocaine leads to these clowns feeling brave.

Disgraceful

Isn’t that completely normal? If they are playing in Europe, want to be seen as professionals and also receive the according salary that probably surmounts that of all of us here summed, then they just have to make the three goals or at least two, even also from statistical probability. It’s quite a strange coincidence that especially all of those three failed. Maybe it’s even intentional, we don’t know, but it looks so a bit. If you would work for a Japanese company or any other in a country that is not your birthplace, and become there head of a project group and everything completely fails…are you pampered, receive special gratification and still be seen as cute and cool foreigner? No , you are fired within a minute and they will of course talk about foreigners and don’t give the next project to foreigners so fast again.

Predictable. Take a knee, blow the game, and then cry racism. Most pro athletes are crybabies.

It’s not a coincidence they missed, they were benched for the whole tournament and put in literally one minute before the shootouts in the final without even touching the ball before their penalty. And exactly because they are professionals, they did what they were asked under big pressure and, as it happened to many great and not so great players before them, missed. Only those who don’t kick penalties don’t miss penalties.

The only thing that is NOT an acceptable outcome of a sport event is the racism. Even less, accusing them of deserving to receive racist insults because they dared to protest against…racist insults.

By the way, I would like to inform you that they are English citizens, hence the eligibility for playing for the England national team. Sweet lord.

I got a bunch of minus votes during the "taking a knee" debate for pointing out that deep down many, if not a majority of football fans from certain clubs are racist to their core. The banana throwing and monkey chants have gone but the bigotry is unchanged.

Those players took on the task that some of the better players passed on.

But this racist abuse fo them is not surprising given England's racist history dating back to at least when it began the slave trade. Throughout the country stand statutes commemorating many of those who started the whole slave trade and others who participated and profited from it.

Thrown into the mix you get the 'fans' who boo the Danish national anthem, shoot a laser into the eyes of the Danish goalkeeper, and then boo the Italian anthem.

Predictable. Take a knee, blow the game, and then cry racism.

Well, they were racially abused.

I don’t get your logic here.

I am glad they lost because taking a knee is virtue signalling of the lowest order.

What a Pathetic Thinking Process!!!

Saying people deserve to lose because they stood up to racism can come from only the worst kind of racists.

The racist abuse is abhorrent, but it's hardly surprising.

Institutions such as the police are inherently racist. The tabloid press push nationalism bordering on racism on a daily basis. Anonymous social media accounts have given a public voice to anyone who wishes to espouse extreme views. The tabloid press love this because it gives them even more extreme sensationalized material to fill its pages.

It's such a deep problem that obviously has social roots, as well as class, and historical roots too.

What is different now is we can see more evidence of these comments, whereas 20 years ago the racist comments were hidden behind the doors of the pub, or people's own houses.

You can 'fix' it by regulating Twitter and the like, but all that will do is put it out of public view again.

It's a start I suppose, but the issue requires much deeper solutions than that. It always starts with education.

It’s not a coincidence they missed, they were benched for the whole tournament…

And that includes not training to play soccer, shoot goals or being capable of doing the job when called on the field? They are all damned high paid professional players and therefore just have to do it whenever the situation for need of fresh players arises and their full power is demanded. That’s why they are amongst the spared and benched. Otherwise they can also keep some sheep in the nature for a pocket money or dishwash some plates at restaurant for the there assigned low pay.

Why do people get so excited and take it all so seriously. Football is just a game played by millionaires. I like to watch football sometimes but if my team loses, so what, move on.

These footballers should just delete all social media accounts. Who needs all the grief?

Thomas TankToday  02:25 pm JST

Having a shootout to decide any team sport is stupid. Double so when it is a game with consequences. Triple so for a championship match. Fans want to see the best TEAM, not the best/luckiest shot.

Agreed. They should extend tied championships at LEAST 20 minutes before going to a shootout.

They extended the game by 30 minutes.

Or are you being funny?

This a small minority, the megaphone affect of social media amplifies provides a platform for these halfwit village idiots.

Lotsa ignorant louts, the detritus and scum of mindless MEGA xenophobia, need skimmin' off the grounds and cancelling from SM to clean up the sport.

Penalty shootout in the finals is never easy. There are a handful of spot kick takers who can do the job with some consistency. Harry Kane, Harry Maguire, Leonardo Bonucci, Ronaldo, Messi, Lukaku and a few others. Power, precision, good eye, and experience, are vital ingredients to beat those agile shot stoppers who keep practicing their craft under the bar.

Racism is wrong and not at all acceptable.

Now, after a sports failure, no matter who fails, a boy, a girl, a chinese, a black, a latino, a white, a short guy or a tall guy, etc. Everytime there will be hateful words thrown at them in the spat of the moment. I can bet it has happened to all of us. In the heat of things we have at least once hurled an insult at somebody that pertains to his persona, his self, be it weight, color, personality, size, height, voice, disability, etc. In the heat of heats of altercations. deceptions, disappointments, people will almost unconsciously recur to hurling insults that use those characteristics of the other person, because almost innately it is what is understood as going to cause the greatest pain or insult. Not saying it is excusable or permittable. Just saying it is a human reaction. It may come from deep rooted racism or just spiteful rancor or disappointment of the moment.

And anyone who would have missed those kicks and those who have missed have summited to such all kinds of abuse from one side or the other. It's not just them and it's not just racism.