{"id":493299,"date":"2026-02-23T03:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493299\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:31:09","slug":"football-soccer-wolves-sunderland-condemn-racist-abuse-directed-at-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/493299\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Wolves, Sunderland condemn racist abuse directed at players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Wolverhampton \u2060Wanderers and Sunderland said they were \u2060appalled by the racial abuse directed \u200cat their players on social media on Sunday following defeats in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves striker Tolu Arokodare and \u200bSunderland winger Romaine Mundle \u2060both received online abuse, \u2060with the incidents coming less than 24 hours \u2060after \u200cWesley Fofana and Hannibal Mejbri were racially abused following Chelsea&#8217;s draw \u2060with Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves said they were disgusted \u200bby the \u200cmultiple instances of abuse received by Arokodare \u2060following \u200btheir 1-0 defeat by Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand firmly alongside him, and alongside all footballers who \u2060are forced to endure this \u200babuse from anonymous accounts acting with apparent impunity,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland, who \u2060lost 3-1 to Fulham, said they were working with the authorities to identify those responsible for the messages targeting Mundle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The abhorrent \u200bbehaviour displayed by multiple individuals \u2060is unacceptable and will not be tolerated \u200bby the Club under \u200cany circumstances,&#8221; Sunderland wrote on \u200btheir website.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Karan Prashant Saxena in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Wolverhampton \u2060Wanderers and Sunderland said they were \u2060appalled by the racial abuse directed \u200cat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,71209,561,82],"class_list":["post-493299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-na","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493299","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=493299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}