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Ed Wellard, from Withington, tapes bin liners across offensive wording on the mural of Manchester United striker and England player Marcus Rashford on the wall of the Coffee House Cafe on Copson Street, Withington, which appeared vandalised the morning after the England football team lost the Uefa Euro 2021 final
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THE football world put their arms around Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka today after the trio were subjected to vile amounts of racism following their penalty misses in Sunday’s European final defeat against Italy.
In the immediate aftermath of the result, racists took to social media to hurl abuse at the players, with social media platform Twitter said it had proactively removed more than 1,000 posts over the past 24 hours which violated its policy and also taken swift action to permanently suspend a number of accounts.
Clubs, MPs and athletes not only in football but various sports also spoke out against the horrific messages while offering support to the three black players.
