Kevin Danso racially abused by Spurs fans after Brighton draw

Since yesterday’s fixture towards Brighton, which occurred in the course of the Premier League’s No Room For Racism weekend, Kevin Danso has been, and continues to be, topic to vital and abhorrent racist abuse on social media.

We’ve got heard and seen vile, dehumanising racism. Behaviour that’s no doubt a legal offence. It won’t be tolerated.

The membership is taking rapid motion. We’re reporting all recognized content material to the Metropolitan Police and to the suitable authorities within the nation the place perpetrators reside, in addition to to related social media platforms. We are going to push for the strongest attainable motion towards every particular person we establish.

Kevin has our full and unconditional help as a participant and as an individual. Nobody at this membership will ever stand alone within the face of this.

Nothing about type or league place can ever excuse or clarify racist abuse. There is no such thing as a connection between efficiency on the pitch and the precise to focus on a participant with discrimination. Criticism of performances is a part of the sport. Racism shouldn’t be.

We work with specialist third events devoted to monitoring on-line abuse, investigating incidents and figuring out perpetrators.

Abusers might face custodial sentences, soccer banning orders, legal information, fines, neighborhood orders or police-mandated instructional programmes. We’ve got efficiently secured legal convictions following abuse of our employees and gamers, together with people based mostly abroad, and we now have additionally issued indefinite Membership bans.

We name on X, Instagram and all platforms to behave rapidly and decisively when racist abuse is reported. We additionally encourage anybody who sees abuse of this sort to report it on to us at report@tottenhamhotspur.com so we are able to take the strongest attainable motion.

There is no such thing as a place for racism at Tottenham Hotspur. There is no such thing as a place for racism in soccer.

— Assertion, Tottenham Hotspur