While Arsenal walked this Saturday on the lawn of Leeds (4-1), the meeting would have been marked by racist insults intended for the Arsenal bench.
2021 and the same evils reappear. While French football is illustrated by the violence in its stadiums, English football could be marked by the return of old demons.
Based on information from Sky Sports, racist slurs were said to have been uttered by an individual in the stands at Elland Road during the Leeds debacle in the face of Arsenal this saturday in Premier League (1-4). These incidents would have occurred shortly after half an hour of play, when the score was already acquired for the Gunners (3-0).
The substitutes and the Arsenal board forwarded the information to the fourth referee who noted it in his match report.
In a post-match press conference, Mikel Arteta returned to the incident at the Sky Sports microphone. “This has been reported. The authorities will take care of it. I am very disappointed because we have done so much in football to try to avoid this … but it was only one person. I don’t think it deserves an entire stadium to pay the price. “
“This is an isolated incident and it must be reported. It has been reported, and now the authorities are going to have to work with the clubs to figure out what happened, ” he said in particular.
Later in the night, The Athletic reported that a Leeds fan was arrested in connection with the same investigation.
