Antonio Neill: Man who racially abused footballer Ivan Toney banned from all UK stadiums for three years in ‘landmark ruling’
Antonio Neill: Man who racially abused footballer Ivan Toney banned from all UK stadiums for three years in ‘landmark ruling’
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Good. But one thing I would like to see is for papers to quote those texts. If you can show us a video footage of someone being strangled to death you can show us exact wording of the text. If you must hide it behind a NSFW click option to expand but when someone says “send a racist text” I want to know what it was. There are degrees of racism all bad but it’s worth knowing how bad it was
I have searched a little more deeply. The offending remark was “black c***.” For those of you who do not like me quoting from Ivan Toney’s own repost, feel free to report me.
That said, I believe the remark was offensive and should not have been made. I also agree with the ban that has been handed to him. It is only by knowing this information that we can appreciate whether our legal system is proportionate. There are worse things he could have said and then I would have here calling for a more strict punishment.
3 years seems light. Just give him a lifetime ban, idiots like that shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near sport
Stretching the definition of the term ‘man’ to near breaking point.
Good, but genuinely curious how something of this scale could be enforced. Not like it’s just one team/ground that needs to be on alert for him trying to enter.
Similarly the “report to police station during the match” technique, with the football schedule in this country he’d basically have to live there.
Unless it’s kind of like parole restrictions or restraining orders where there’s nothing physically stopping you but if you get caught the book is thrown at you hard.
Absolute pinnacle of being a keyboard warrior. Ivan Toney would fold that boy in half.
If he does not like goals being scored, I am not sure you can call him a football “fan”. More like an anti-fan?
What an odd punishment. Banned from stadiums that have football but not any other sport.
I know this is kind of beside the point, but he must have spent a lot of his life explaining that his name isn’t Anthony O’Neill.
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