A mural honouring footballer Marcus Rashford has been been vandalised with racist graffiti after his penalty miss. Get more on this story:
But their performance was marred by the racist abuse, with three black players - Bukayo Saka, 19; Marcus Rashford, 23, and Jadon Sancho, 21 - targeted online over missing penalties in the game's dying minutes.Rashford mural vandalised with racist graffiti
Meanwhile, organisations vowed further action. Leyton Orient banned a supporter for three years after being alerted to their Twitter posts and estate agent Savills said they were investigating the posts of an employee. He said:"We are bringing forward at the moment measures in our Online Harms Bill to strengthen how internet and social media platforms behave and their responsibilities to take action against this sort of behaviour.
"We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible." England World Cup hero Sir Geoff Hurst said his 16-year-old grandson showed him examples of the"absolutely disgusting" abuse being posted online."It's sad this is making the headlines… the team are magnificent," he added.
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