Rashford is latest player to receive abuse as FA vows action against online racism

• FA will work with government and social media platforms
• Rashford: abuse is ‘humanity and social media at its worst’

The Football Association has vowed to work with the government and social media platforms to eradicate racist abuse after a succession of incidents. The Chelsea defender Reece James, West Brom’s Romaine Sawyers and the Manchester United duo Axel Tuanzebe and Anthony Martial were all targeted this week and on Saturday night Marcus Rashford said he had received offensive messages after United’s draw at Arsenal.

Rashford chose not to share screenshots of the messages he had been sent as “it would be irresponsible to do so … I have beautiful children of all colours following me and they don’t need to read it.”

Related: Premier League managers call for tougher action on online racist abuse

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