Premier League<\/a> and police.<\/p>\n“Everyone at Burnley FC is disgusted by the online racist abuse directed at Hannibal following today’s Premier League fixture,” the club said.<\/p>\n
“There is no place for this in our society and we condemn it unreservedly.<\/p>\n
“The Club continues to be unequivocal in its stance — we have a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination.”<\/p>\n
Fofana also shared screenshots of racist messages he had received.<\/p>\n
“2026, it’s still the same thing, nothing changes,” he wrote. “These people are never punished. You create big campaigns against racism, but nobody actually does anything.”<\/p>\n
Chelsea said they would “work with the relevant authorities and platforms in identifying the perpetrators and take the strongest possible action.”<\/p>\n
“Chelsea Football Club is appalled and disgusted by vile online racist abuse directed at Wesley Fofana,” the club said.<\/p>\n
“The targeted racist abuse Wes has been subjected to following today’s Premier League fixture against Burnley is abhorrent and will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n
“Such behaviour is completely unacceptable and runs counter to the values of the game and everything we stand for as a club. There is no room for racism.”<\/p>\n
“We stand unequivocally with Wes. He has our full support, as do all our players who are too often forced to endure this hatred simply for doing their job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 21, 2026, 07:37 PM ET Burnley and Chelsea have condemned online racist abuse directed at their respective…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-491648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}