Dele Alli will be denied a trade-in against Manchester United due to his discriminatory joke on Snapchat. The English international had published a post in early February in which he implied that Asians were responsible for the coronavirus epidemic.
Before the pandemic came to interrupt the football season, Alli had published a video on the Snapchat social network entitled “Corona what? Listen and turn up the volume. " We saw the player wearing a protective mask then filming without his knowledge an Asian-looking person sitting near him, then a bottle of hydroalcoholic gel with the legend "This virus will have to be faster than that to catch me".
Apologies and stereotype
The post was later deleted and the player apologized on the Chinese social network Weibo. The English football federation (FA), while considering that Alli was "not racist", had considered that he "had not thought enough" by using "unacceptable racist stereotypes".
An argument that the independent disciplinary committee accepted on Thursday. In addition to the suspension match, Alli will have to pay a fine of 50,000 pounds (56,000 euros) and follow an awareness training course on the subject. His absence against Manchester United is however very bad news for the Spurs, 8th with 41 points, and who hope to reduce their gap by four units on the Red Devils, 5th and at the gates of qualifying places for the Champions League.
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