Romelu Lukaku, Marcus Rashford, Tammy Abraham, Paul Pogba and Kurt Zouma have been subjected to racist abuse, online or in person.
Monkey chants were heard and he was understandably extremely upset. The fact is that some of the club's own 'Curva Nord' fans do not believe those chants were racist.
Where was the club statement condemning the remarks of the vocal few? More importantly, where was an action plan to ban and/or educate those supporters?
Yes, the overwhelming majority of fans will be law-abiding citizens. But more needs to be done.
Inter Milan feel they are doing enough on a daily basis to challenge discriminatory behaviour and their 'BUU' campaign has been regarded as a bold statement in Italy.
They do not feel the need to comment on the inflammatory fan statement.
Cynics will suggest they do not want to publicly criticise an influential group of their own fans. If that is the case, it is pathetic.
In contrast, Cagliari said it wants to ban "those ignorant individuals whose shameful actions and behaviours are completely against those values".
UEFA say the matter is for the Italian Football Federation and won't get involved until discriminatory behaviour takes place in one of their competitions.
FIFA have yet to give their reaction to the statement from Inter's supporters.
The Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) should be rightly applauded for their latest action plan, which urges social media companies to permanently delete the accounts of anyone who has posted a racist comment.
Twitter's latest response still raises more questions than answers.
What, specifically, is the "swift action" they will take? What, exactly, are the "number of proactive measures" taken? They have yet to elaborate.
Twitter says it has taken action on more than 700 examples of hateful conduct in the last two weeks.
For context, Twitter has 126 million users every day. A tiny percentage of those users engage in racist behaviour but it still too many.
There is no doubt that clubs and governing bodies have good intentions. But, aside from glossy PowerPoint presentations and well-crafted statements, will they actually change behaviours?
Kelvinabakah
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if they say you're monkey tell them monkey is better than a pig[Crylaugh]
raynknight
176
Racism is Combined worse than Mustafi's defending, Young's Crossing , Xhaka's Tackling , Icardi's Loyalty and Vinicus's Finishing.......!!! Say No To Racism.....!!
Hacker65
117
talk is cheap and action is expensive
wubceiorsz
87
Racism is for ignorant. us blacks beat them in their own game. Before I went to Europe to study I thought whites were all clever. When I joined University, I realised that we were equal of not better than them. I was shocked when one asked me where East Africa was. my response was that if he didn't know then he must have been stupid in high school. Being white or black does grant someone a right to abuse another.
DhanMm13
66
All racists shall be so gruesomely punished, that the pain inflicted on them slowly bringing them to a horrible death shall force them to beg the torturer to kill them instantly, because they shall not be able to bear the pain they deserve and are inflicted upon.
mweuc654
63
I don't understand why most of color racism occurs in Italy... These kind of manner is not good coz all of us have came from the same father and mother. That is why most of blacked players shine in serie A, But all in all work hard bro and prove themselves wrong. From reds fans
Abtheking
62
racists don't have any right to exist in this world. #say no to racism guys
Abhiram13
61
Remember football fans,mainly Premier league club's fans. Stop discouraging people on their colour. U people cheer if they score as well as disencourage if they give a bad perfomance. That shows the cheap character of football fans. And it even disencourage's the young footballers who are the future stars
Canada2777038
47
The fear is that what amounts to racism is too large in scope that every good thinking and appreciation will be erroneously interpreted as racism. Monkey chats to me should be used for whites too in that way it has no meaning. There are white faced monkey and they have make chattering noises just like other monkeys. Any Whiteman doing the monkey chats is merely admitting his ignorance or his stupidity or insanity or admitting he is descendant of white monkey. Let us ignore them those guys belong to psychiatric hospital or mental health homes.
basketballer
45
Why to pay Attention to the 2% of the Racist and Haters there, Instead we should Ignore them and rather pay attention to the 98 % of People that Support Truely and Respect the Game Football with their All heart. 💪😤 - @basketballer
AG7F
44
We all breathe the same air...Say no to Racism
Charlesugwu
41
In that case, players especially black players should as well celebrate excessively as they wished such as "a rezor-cutting neck celebration", "dance naked each time they scored a goal". Or maybe all black players should start wearing white mask during football matches to conceal their identities. From slavery to racism, what a world of the blacks!