Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw: Nikita Parris and Jordan Nobbs call the abuse of the city of the city “scary” and want sharp penalties | Football news

Racist and misogynistic abuse suffered by Man City striker Khadi ‘Bunny’ Shaw is completely unacceptable with the stronger actions needed by football authorities to abolish it from the game, said Nikita Parris and Jordan Nobs Sky Sports’ Pitch to Pod Podcast.

City reported about abuse directed to Shaw police after their defeat of 4-3 women’s super league from Arsenal on February 2nd, and the striker did not participate in the win of the Cup League Club over Gunners a few days later because of his mental well-being.

City promised to fully support Shaw – who returned to Sunday’s Women’s Fa Cup victory against Leicester, leaving the bench to achieve the results in winning 3-1 – because of the “disgusting treatment” she received.

The incident happened the same weekend, Captain of Chelsea Millie Bright heard explicit insults directed his journey after the WSL 1-0 win in Aston Vili, going to social media to remind the fans that players are not robots.

Midfielder Aston Villa Nobbs believes that there is still a lot of work to do to educate people that there is no room for this type of abuse in the game.

“It’s simply unacceptable, don’t we? We don’t want it in the world of women’s football,” she said Heavenly sports’ ‘Pitch to under’. “Well, in any part of life. But it is so sad to see how the player must stay home, miss the game because of that kind of abuse and racism.

“We want it anywhere near our game. And we have always said that the media platform is so big for women’s football and pushing the game. And obviously, we probably need to be much stronger just as we say it’s not acceptable. And we don’t want you to be you People involved in football.

“We must obviously repeat and make strong messages to inform the game and ensure that it is still made so that it is inappropriate.”

Brighton ahead Parris agrees with his international teammate of England, saying that a “scary” player who could be forced to miss the game for the abuse they have suffered and that should run “Alarm Bells”.

“Players can say how much they want,” she said. “We can continue the campaign and show our support measures. But when will the institution take any action? Because if you are a bunny, imagine that the level of that abuse to prevent you from playing next week? You can imagine just what it was sent.

“The messages obviously took an emotional tribute to the bunny, forcing her to stop doing what she loved and take the time out of her so she could re -examine and breathe. It’s scary for me and should be a huge alarm of bells on her own.”

In fact, the English striker says she would even be ready to start off the field if such abuse occurs during the match.

“I would,” Parris says. “I think that depending on the type of person, your reactions will be different. I just think that I felt abuse in an instant only overflowing [to the referee]. I know what I am. I know what a person I am. “

Parris says that while football players open public control and exposure, it still does not give people the right to abuse them.

“We know we play public sports,” she added. “We know that we are opening to the comments of people because of the sport where we also play a platform where we want our sport to get bigger and better.

“But it still does not give people the right to openly say everything they feel straight out of their brains in their mouths and outside. It is simply not acceptable – there must be a level of respect for people.”

In the meantime, Parris also wants to remind people that such incidents may have an exhausting effect on player mental health, as you can see when Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka were both racially abused online after missing penalties in English loss in Italy in the Euro 2020 final . Wembley.

“We pointed out young players,” she said. “I think it is a very difficult situation to enter football like today with the amount of opinion, both online, out of the net, on the field, in the stands, so that you can handle the abuse level that you could only get if you have a bad game.

“Simple leakage of punishment can cause incidents that could change the course of the rest of your life. Since people don’t think it happened on Friday, by Tuesday it will be okay. No, the level of gravity of what you said is that it can change the course of one’s life .

“It’s a difference. But some people just don’t see it like that. They just see it as a flaptant comment. I only said it in the moment. But what you say in the heat of the moment can change the course of one’s life.

“We heard well documented Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, these people have repeatedly told you what an incident is, those who missed the punishment, literally helped to abolish their mental health. And fortunately, they managed to renew themselves. But some people are could be restored.

“They had support, resources, family members who could help them renew and make them see strength in themselves and help them overcome the challenge they faced. But what if you do not have that support?

“It’s actually quite scary what can happen to a person’s life based on one person’s comment – many will say it’s a job, but ultimately it’s a football game. It’s a football game.”

‘There’s more work for sure’

One course of action that could be taken to reduce the internet abuse that the players have suffered is that regulators use their powers to keep the social media company on account, says “Kick It Out” Executive Director Samuel Okafor.

And as part of this, Okafor also calls for Ofcom and regulators to ensure that these different companies provide multiple tools to empower users.

“You can see the influence that internet abuse has toward the players,” he said Sky Sports News. “A Bunny Shaw is just one of those examples we have seen over the years, and also in recent weeks. So we believe this is an opportunity for regulators to reinforce and hold social media companies to count, to use their powers to ensure that there is a responsibility Inside the social media companies.

“We believe that companies on social networks must be able to provide multiple tools to strengthen users. We invite the Ofcom and regulators to really reinforce and do it.

“We really support a new football regulator. We believe that will help protect the long -term future of the game, make a game sustainable, putting fans at the center of the game. But we believe it will help to deal with some cultural challenges and challenges for the national team that the game had and on the roles on the field and on the roles outside the field.

“In addition, this year will be the first year, FA introduces a mandatory report on the diversity of labor, which means from June 1, the clubs will have to publish their workforce information. We urged football to be more transparent with its information, to make it They brought their information into light, which is really important to initiate cultural changes.

“There will be more questions that will appear when this information is public in terms of clubs that reflect their community, which is a key message for us, because football is at the center of so many community.”

Ultimately, however, he comes down to education, with Okafor saying that even more work should be done in this area, the is the players of players and fans.

“We believe the game should be open to everyone and this is an increasing area of ​​concern in terms of discrimination and we believe that it is necessary to work more here in terms of education,” he said. “It’s not just campaigns or ribbons. It is actually how to increase education, both at the level of the players and at the fans’ level, but I think that in this area of ​​discrimination, more work should be done.”