BBC Sport looks at the rise in racism towards East and South East Asian players and fans in football.
The seven-game ban given to Tottenham's Rodrigo Bentancur for a racial slur about team-mate Son Heung-min has restarted the conversation about racism towards players and fans of East and South East Asian descent.
"It’s fans sending us a clear message they are not willing to tolerate discrimination and it’s a message that football needs to listen to." Show Racism the Red Card also called out viral social media posts linking Asian players to the coronavirus outbreak in 2020. Manager Ange Postecoglou will speak to the media on Friday and previously said his midfielder made a "big error" and that "he has got to take the punishment"."To be brutally honest, we run into these kind of things every week," says London-based Premier League video content creator Kevin Yuan.
"I asked one fan what did that chant mean? And he said, that's it's a Real Madrid chant, that we are champions," he said.
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