{"id":348129,"date":"2025-08-16T03:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348129\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:05:12","slug":"police-investigate-after-antoine-semenyo-reports-racist-abuse-from-anfield-crowd-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/348129\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate after Antoine Semenyo reports racist abuse from Anfield crowd | Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merseyside police are investigating an allegation that the Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo was racially abused during his team\u2019s defeat at Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Semenyo reported being racially abused by a Liverpool<\/a> fan at Anfield, and a man in a wheelchair was escorted out of the stadium at half-time by three police officers.<\/p>\n

Liverpool\u2019s head coach, Arne Slot, was incensed that the incident had detracted from a night of emotional tributes to the late Diogo Jota<\/a> and his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, who were killed in a car accident in July. Slot went to console Semenyo immediately after Liverpool\u2019s dramatic 4-2 victory.<\/p>\n

A statement from Liverpool read: \u201cLiverpool Football Club is aware of an allegation of racist abuse made during our Premier League game against AFC Bournemouth<\/a>. We condemn racism and discrimination in all forms, it has no place in society or football. The club is unable to comment further as tonight\u2019s alleged incident is the subject of an ongoing police investigation, which we will support fully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andoni Iraola, the Bournemouth head coach, said Semenyo was upset after the game but praised the Ghana international for maintaining his composure and scoring two fine goals at Anfield to draw the visitors level. \u201cIt\u2019s a shame that in the first game of the Premier League season, with two teams playing a really good game, we have to be talking about something that should be in the past but is not in the past,\u201d said Iraola. \u201cIt is something that is still a big problem. Antoine was calm in the heat of the moment. We asked him if he could continue and he was composed but he is asking why these things are happening today? It is a shame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slot said the night should have been all about the emotional tributes to Jota, which left Mohamed Salah in tears after the game, and Liverpool\u2019s thrilling victory. \u201cIt is unacceptable in any stadium, especially Anfield,\u201d said the Liverpool head coach. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t happen but unfortunately we definitely have to talk about it. It should be about Diogo and how the tributes were. I spoke to Antoine after the game and said the club will do everything we can to find the person responsible. Big credit to him if something happens to him and he can perform like this. He is not only a great player but very strong mentally. But it is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merseyside police are investigating an allegation that the Bournemouth forward Antoine Semenyo was racially abused during his team\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-348129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115036233812180954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}