{"id":477763,"date":"2024-02-07T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477763"},"modified":"2024-02-07T14:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:16:16","slug":"ivan-toney-racially-abused-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ivan-toney-racially-abused-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Toney racially abused on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brentford forward Ivan Toney has again been subjected to racial abuse online, the London club shared today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Brentford have called for criminal prosecutions following another instance of racist abuse directed at Ivan Toney on social media.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bosherL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bosherL<\/a> \u2b07\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ApPiN2fqcq\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/ApPiN2fqcq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/1755230034267181455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Bees admitted that they are &#8220;angered and frustrated&#8221; by the abuse that their player suffered and added that\u2019s not the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time that this has happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team is angered and frustrated to share that Ivan Toney has been subjected to racist abuse on social media again,&#8221; Brentford wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club has initiated investigations into this vile harassment, which we condemn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, this isn&#8217;t the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time Toney has been the target of such abuse. A similar thing happened 4 weeks ago, leading us to identify who did it, and we reported it to the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, there is nothing happened vs. that individual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bees also criticized media companies today for the lack of will to overcome the problem and hold the user accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brentford forward Ivan Toney has again been subjected to racial abuse online, the London club shared today. Brentford have called for criminal prosecutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477764,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18007,16827,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[19417,17886,2644],"acf":{"announce":"The Brentford striker target of more racial abuse online.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477772,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477763\/revisions\/477772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477763"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477763"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}