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Football, racism & the courts

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23 July 2021 / Professor Mark Engelman
Issue: 7942 / Categories: Opinion , Criminal , Cyber
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Mark Engelman on racism & publishers’ responsibilities

The Football Association has said it is working with politicians and social media companies to extinguish discrimination of all kinds, following the online racist abuse of the three England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka after England’s Euro 2020 final defeat by Italy earlier this month, but there might be better means of curbing such behaviour. All three players missed penalties in the 3-2 penalty shootout.

Rome may have burnt ages ago but at least as at May 2020 when the High Court in a series of three judgments refused to grant any relief for a Mr Sube and his family when viciously attacked online by members of the public, Rome is still aflame (Sube and another v News Group Newspapers Ltd and another [2020] EWHC 1125 (QB)).

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Mr and Mrs Sube—a married couple with nine children, who moved to the UK from France in 2012—were in dispute with their local council in 2016 about

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