{"id":2088,"date":"2020-11-23T15:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/arsenal-leeds-condemn-online-racist-abuse-aimed-at-pepe-alioski\/"},"modified":"2020-11-23T15:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:20:45","slug":"arsenal-leeds-condemn-online-racist-abuse-aimed-at-pepe-alioski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal, Leeds condemn online racist abuse aimed at Pepe, Alioski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.4836523126\">\n<div readability=\"31.695374800638\">\n<p>Arsenal and Leeds United have issued statements after Nicolas Pepe and Ezgjan Alioski were the targets of online racist abuse following Sunday&#8217;s goalless draw at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>The two players were involved in a heated altercation during the second half of the contest, which resulted in Pepe being sent off for headbutting the Leeds defender.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was followed by an abundance of racist abuse on social media aimed at both players, which will be investigated by police and football authorities.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Arsenal reads: &#8220;We utterly condemn the vile abuse directed at Nicolas Pepe and Ezgjan Alioski on social media following our match against Leeds United.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is completely unacceptable and we will be working with the police and authorities to do everything we can to trace and prosecute the culprits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-segment--image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/cropped_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/w220xh124_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221 220w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/w320xh180_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221 320w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/w640xh360_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221 640w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/w768xh432_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221 768w, https:\/\/assets-cms.thescore.com\/uploads\/image\/file\/428146\/w1080xh607_GettyImages-1229737347.jpg?ts=1606140221 1080w\"\/><figcaption class=\"article-segment--image-caption\"> <span class=\"article-segment--image-attribution\">MOLLY DARLINGTON \/ AFP \/ Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In response to the incident, former Manchester City and Chelsea winger Shaun Wright-Phillips called on Twitter to protect people from racism.<\/p>\n<p>Alioski and his family were reportedly also targeted with threats, according to James Olley of ESPN FC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will work closely with the police and the footballing authorities to ensure those responsible are identified and punished,&#8221; Leeds said in a separate statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal and Leeds United have issued statements after Nicolas Pepe and Ezgjan Alioski were the targets of online racist abuse following Sunday&#8217;s goalless draw at Elland Road. The two players were involved in a heated altercation during the second half of the contest, which resulted in Pepe being sent off for headbutting the Leeds defender. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-premier-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballvoyage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}