RACISM & the ENGLAND football team | What you need to know | Newsround

Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka all received racist abuse on social media following England's loss to Italy in the final of Euro 2020. Social media companies are facing new criticism for failing to deal with racist abuse directed at black footballers.
The Football Association said social media companies "need to step up and take accountability", including taking action to "ban abusers from their platforms".
"I felt as if I'd let everyone down," Rashford wrote in a statement. The 23-year-old added: "I can take critique of my performance all day long, my penalty was not good enough, it should have gone in but I will never apologise for who I am and where I came from.
"I've felt no prouder moment than wearing those three lions on my chest and seeing my family cheer me on in a crowd of 10s of thousands."
It is not the first time black players have been targeted with racial insults on social media following a football match. Rashford, who campaigned to help child food poverty during the coronavirus pandemic, has received multiple racist messages over the last year. In January 2021 he said he had experienced "humanity and social media at its worst".
"I have beautiful children of all colours following me and they don't need to read it. Beautiful colours that should only be celebrated," he said.
The abuse meant there were calls for social media companies to fix the problem of racism online. But over the months that followed, black Premier League stars such as Raheem Sterling, Reece James, Romaine Sawyers, Anthony Martial, Axel Tuanzebe and Fred all received racist abuse.
They are just a handful of the athletes across many sports who have been targeted with racist or other hateful messages on social media platforms.
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