{"id":489669,"date":"2026-03-22T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:27:09","slug":"newcastle-sunderland-match-halted-after-report-of-racism-towards-lutsharel-geertruida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/489669\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle-Sunderland match halted after report of racism towards Lutsharel Geertruida"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a statement, Sunderland<\/a> said: “We stand with Lutsharel, who has our complete backing, and we commend him for displaying bravery and leadership by reporting this incident to the match officials.<\/p>\n

“Racism is completely unacceptable. It is abhorrent, and has no place in our game or in society.<\/p>\n

“We acknowledge Newcastle United<\/a>‘s statement and expect those responsible to be identified and held accountable.<\/p>\n

“There can be no tolerance, no excuses, and no ambiguity when it comes to incidents of this nature.<\/p>\n

“Football must be a safe and inclusive environment for everyone – without exception – and we will continue to work with the relevant authorities to support that aim.”<\/p>\n

Sunderland<\/a> boss Regis le Bris, said: “He [Lutsharel Geertruida] looks OK. It is unacceptable and important to report and manage the situation properly. He looks OK, but we need to support him.”<\/p>\n

While Newcastle<\/a>‘s Eddie Howe added: “We don’t condone racism in any form and the club will investigate.”<\/p>\n

Newcastle<\/a> were leading their Tyne-Wear rivals 1-0 at the time, although the match ultimately finished 2-1 to Sunderland<\/a> thanks to Brian Brobbey’s late winner.<\/p>\n

The season-opening Premier League game between Liverpool<\/a> and Bournemouth<\/a> in August was stopped after then Cherries forward Antoine Semenyo reported being racially abused<\/a> by someone in the Anfield crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, Sunderland said: “We stand with Lutsharel, who has our complete backing, and we commend him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-489669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}