Anthony Elanga targeted with racist abuse

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Manchester United's 19-year-old winger Anthony Elanga was targeted with vile racist abuse after missing a penalty against Middlesbrough on Friday night.

What is wrong with people ?

 

[Harry190]

What the heck?

 

[2 man midfield]

Predictable as hell. As soon as he missed and I’d sighed because we were out, my mind immediately turned to the shit I knew would be flung his way. It’s such a shame it’s so expected.

 

[Amarsdd]

don't think anyone's surprised. That says it all really.

 

[Steven Seagull]

I’m absolutely shocked

 

[Reapersoul20]

What? A sub-section of football fans are racist, contemptable pricks who deserve a smack? :O

 

[TwoSheds]

Presumably a few twats on social media rather than people in the ground?

 

[Ronaldo's ego]

Doubt it’s actual genuine United fans, disgusting none the less.

 

[Swiss_Red89]

I think we've already for some time reached the point where people on social media doing it just to take the piss. Knowing that it will lead to headlines.

Absolute idiotic and childish behaviour.

 

[led_scholes]

These people need a private tutoring from Cantona.

 

[Regulus Arcturus Black]

Don’t give knobheads on social media the air time. An incredible amount of people are simply there to play the cnuty troll behind the safety of their keyboard and absolutely lap up the people who get offended.
Why anyone thinks it’s worth highlighting or discussion time spent on it blows me away, you’re giving them exactly what they want.

 

[Plant0x84]

What? A sub-section of football fans are racist, contemptable pricks who deserve a smack? :O

Exactly that.

 

[Pickle85]

Ugh. Just grimly predictable. Some people are so shit.

 

[adexkola]

Gotta love social media. These idiots have always existed, but it was harder for them to expel their dregs emanating from rotted brain tissue

 

[RedDevilQuebecois]

Presumably a few twats on social media rather than people in the ground?

Even so, those feckers need to be identified and brought into the spotlight of being shamed publicly. Let's see how they would react when being identified as a racist in the open results in being suspended from their jobs, sacked from their jobs, or even dragged to prison (if police can trace a long history of criminal racism).

 

[Sparky_Hughes]

Utter wankers, cowards and inadequate pointless piles of manky helmet scrapings, he will rise again.

 

[calodo2003]

It was bound to happen.

 

[Walters_19_MuFc]

Shock!

 

[Lee565]

I think there is more to it than just random racist trolls abusing elanga.

It's just too predictable to the point that I believe these are either media outlet or state backed professional trolls

 

[Denis79]

Manchester United's 19-year-old winger Anthony Elanga was targeted with vile racist abuse after missing a penalty against Middlesbrough on Friday night.

What is wrong with people ?

Apparently a whole lot.

 

[giggs-beckham]

Wasn't there something in the news today that said they're going to stop abusive sm posts and that fb twitter et al would be fined if they don't remove the offending posts?

 

[Paul_Scholes18]

Abuse is maybe what we expect after events like this. Saka got the same I guess.

Using the miss as an excuse to say abusive things.

 

[redmanx]

What? A sub-section of football fans are racist, contemptable pricks who deserve a smack? :O

They are not "football fans" and as a sub section they are sub human. Hopefully some of these vermin will be found out and then they should be banned from ever attending any sporting venue again, once their 20 year prison sentence is up.

 

[Oranges038]

Scumbags.

But, like the last bunch of gowls, I bet they was all hacked.

 

[UnRational]

Yea I’m shocked cnuts.

 

[izzydiggler]

I don’t want to diminish it but if a black person cured Covid, within the first few comments there‘d be bottom dwelling racists spewing shit.

It‘s nothing to do with football or Manchester United, it’s just fecking arseholes.

 

[Jeppers7]

Disgusting…..honestly you feel like you live in a world where generally these things don’t exist and then every time people prove you wrong. I hope Elanga sticks two fingers up at these Neanderthals

 

[golden_blunder]

Wasn't there something in the news today that said they're going to stop abusive sm posts and that fb twitter et al would be fined if they don't remove the offending posts?

Reacting after the fact though. The people still get abused.
until such times as users are forced to post under their own names this will continue to happen

 

[arthurka]

Idiots.

 

[lex talionis]

Sickening

 

[RedDevilCanuck]

Giving attention to racist idiots want to get a reaction is dumb.

Move on. Some people are idiots, most aren't. Big suprise.

 

[mavradal]

Truly shameful if true, but could you provide some tweets/posts as source please? Thank you

 

[Cloud7]

Very depressing, but even more predictable. When it was him that missed the penalty I just knew this was going to happen. It would have been nice to be surprised though, but I guess that’s asking too much of society to not be racist pricks.

 

[Maxii]

Sick of this shit, just fed up with it all really

 

[Relevant]

Doubt it’s actual genuine United fans, disgusting none the less.

No because all our fans are saints it's just other team's fans that are racist idiots, probably did this purporting to support us for devilment.....

 

[Will Singh]

I got into a Twitter argument with a bunch of them who targeted him, he shouldn’t have got any abuse never mind racism.

 

[Red Dreams]

Things have got so much worse these days.

Wonderful Tory Britain.

 

[Jippy]

I think there is more to it than just random racist trolls abusing elanga.

It's just too predictable to the point that I believe these are either media outlet or state backed professional trolls

Seems a bit of a stretch to imagine a state is paying people to racially abuse footballers in the UK. Same with the media, given the grim predictability means the story has less impact.

It's just cowardly racist pricks who get off on the attention. FB or twitter should release their IP addresses.

 

[Ludens the Red]

Don’t give knobheads on social media the air time. An incredible amount of people are simply there to play the cnuty troll behind the safety of their keyboard and absolutely lap up the people who get offended.
Why anyone thinks it’s worth highlighting or discussion time spent on it blows me away, you’re giving them exactly what they want.

This.
Its time to start ignoring this shit. Nothing can be done about it. Stop giving it the air time.

 

[Isotope]

Was I the only clicking that link and found nothing about the abuse?