{"id":24140,"date":"2024-12-22T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T16:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/burnley-v-watford-clarets-condemn-alleged-racial-abuse-of-watford-player\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T16:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T16:29:47","slug":"burnley-v-watford-clarets-condemn-alleged-racial-abuse-of-watford-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/burnley-v-watford-clarets-condemn-alleged-racial-abuse-of-watford-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley v Watford: Clarets &#8216;condemn&#8217; alleged racial abuse of Watford player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lancashire Police are investigating an allegation of racial abuse aimed at a Watford player during yesterday&#8217;s Championship match at Turf Moor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Clarets, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cy098gwdkp2t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">won the game 2-1<\/a>, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burnleyfootballclub.com\/content\/appeal-for-witnesses\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">club statement<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> appealing for witnesses and said that they &#8220;will ensure that those responsible are held accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement also said: &#8220;Burnley Football Club is deeply concerned by allegations of abuse directed towards a Watford player during the first half of today&#8217;s fixture at Turf Moor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Discrimination has absolutely no place in football or society and we condemn such behaviour in the strongest possible terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watford urged anyone with information to come forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.watfordfc.com\/news\/2024\/december\/21\/club-statement--burnley-v-watford---alleged-abuse\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">and added<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;Watford FC will be offering its fullest support to the player towards whom the alleged abuse was directed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz0rn38l18mo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancashire Police are investigating an allegation of racial abuse aimed at a Watford player during yesterday&#8217;s Championship match at Turf Moor. The Clarets, who won the game 2-1, released a club statement, external appealing for witnesses and said that they &#8220;will ensure that those responsible are held accountable.&#8221; The statement also said: &#8220;Burnley Football Club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24142,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions\/24142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}