Grimsby Town Football Club is supporting the EFL\u2019s Together Against Racism campaign at tomorrow\u2019s game against Gillingham, kick-off 3pm.<\/p>\n
At Grimsby Town FC, we believe that Football is a game for everyone, everywhere, and we are proud of the welcoming atmosphere that you create at Blundell Park every matchday. However, last season there were still 141 incidents of racist abuse at EFL grounds, and likely more that went unrecorded.<\/p>\n
Racism will not be tolerated, and we stand together to remove it from our game.<\/p>\n
Those engaging in racist abuse face up to five years in prison and football stadium bans of 10 years. Last season, 17 fans were banned from their Clubs and 24 faced police convictions for racist abuse at EFL grounds, with many more being referred for restorative justice or still under investigation.<\/p>\n
Grimsby Town FC strives to ensure it is truly reflective of the diverse communities it represents and stands side by side with players, managers, supporters and the EFL to tackle racism in our game.<\/p>\n
How to report an incident<\/p>\n
We are committed to tackling incidents relating to discrimination or inappropriate behaviour in order to reduce the incidence of such occurrences.<\/p>\n
If you encounter a \u2018hate crime\u2019 \u2013 any incident that the victim or anyone else thinks was motivated by hostility or prejudice based on one of the personal characteristics outlined above \u2013 you can report it immediately by filling out the online form at\u00a0gtfc.co.uk\/reporting-discrimination<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0report@gtfc.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you are attending any home matchdays and you have received or been witness to, or have any concerns about any hate incident, you can report it immediately by texting\u00a007926 575610\u00a0\u2013 this will be picked up by our matchday safeguarding officer.<\/p>\n Kick it Out also provide a reporting app, which allows supporters the ability to attach video, photo and audio evidence to complaints to help support investigations into discriminatory abuse and behaviour. Visit the\u00a0Kick It Out\u00a0website or download their app for free from the Apple App store or from Google Play.<\/p>\n If you encounter similar incidences at away fixtures, please speak to a steward or club official at the venue or report the incident via the home club\u2019s designated reporting system.<\/p>\n Please note that reported acts of disciplinary conduct by the Club\u2019s supporters, home or away, are also highly likely to lead to formal disciplinary action by the FA.<\/p>\n One Club. One Community. Together Against Racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grimsby Town Football Club is supporting the EFL\u2019s Together Against Racism campaign at tomorrow\u2019s game against Gillingham, kick-off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-220068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}