• Striker is one of many players racially abused this season• ‘To see it spike in last couple of months has been unbelievable’
Marcus Rashford believes football is “going backwards” in the fight against
racism and social media companies have not done enough to combat abuse on their platforms.
The
Manchester United forward is one of many players to have been racially abused this season, after missing a penalty against Crystal Palace, and his former teammate Romelu Lukaku was subjected to monkey chants when taking a penalty for Internazionale at Cagliari last weekend. Rashford admits the rise in racist abuse is “unbelievable” and says social media companies have been ineffective in their response to the problem.