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Brentford striker Ivan Toney has obtained a ‘barrage’ of racial abuse after his equaliser against Arsenal on Saturday, the west London club have said.
Toney headed residence after 74 minutes on the Emirates Stadium to extinguish out Leo Trossard’s opener in a controversial purpose which became awarded by VAR, nonetheless will deserve to have been ruled out following an offside which became now not observed by video assistant referee Lee Mason.
“Directly after Brentford’s sport against Arsenal, Ivan Toney obtained a barrage of abusive, racist bid messages by capacity of his Instagram tale,” Brentford said in an announcement on Sunday.
And in addition they added: “We are disgusted and saddened that Ivan has needed to take care of this but again.”
Arsenal have also condemned the abuse in an announcement of their have.
“We stand with Ivan Toney and are working with Brentford to identify of us that despatched racist abuse,” the north London club said.
“At Arsenal we condemn all forms of discrimination and seize a zero tolerance capacity. We can practice the strongest likely action to anybody we are able to identify sending hateful messages.”
The body liable for match officials across England, PGMOL, admitted on Sunday that the resolution to award Toney’s purpose became one of two “main errors” made by VAR on Saturday.
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