{"id":7327,"date":"2018-02-07T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2018-02-07T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T10:28:47","slug":"discrimination-in-english-soccer-soars-60-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/discrimination-in-english-soccer-soars-60-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination in English soccer soars 60 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7328\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Spo.jpg\" alt=\"Spo\" width=\"340\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Spo.jpg 340w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Spo-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/>Discrimination in English soccer soared 60 percent in the first half of the season.<br \/>\nThe Premier League accounted for 64 of the 282 incidents of abuse reported to anti-discrimination group Kick It Out, a 50 percent jump on the first half of the previous season. Racism accounted for just over half of the reports gathered by Kick It Out.<br \/>\n\u201cOur latest statistics reveal a significant increase in incidents of discrimination in football, which should act as a wake-up call to everyone in the sport,\u201d Kick It Out chairman Herman Ouseley said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe spike in these mid-season reporting statistics comes against the backdrop of rising hatred in our society.\u201d<br \/>\nReporting incidents of abuse has also become more accessible as Kick It Out\u2019s phone app becomes more prevalent. In the 2012-13 season only 53 discriminatory incidents were reported by the halfway point.<br \/>\n\u201cUltimately, tackling discrimination must be a collective effort,\u201d Ouseley said. \u201cThe leaders across all sections of society and football, as well as the broader public and football supporters themselves, need to take action, report discrimination and help us eradicate hatred.\u201d<br \/>\nAfter racism, incidents of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia account for next largest source of reports of discrimination (22 percent), followed by anti-Semitism (9 percent).<br \/>\nIncidents in the Premier League accounted for half of the reports in the professional game. Social media is becoming a growing outlet for discrimination, with most incidents on Twitter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/discrimination-in-english-soccer-soars-60-percent\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discrimination in English soccer soared 60 percent in the first half of the season. The Premier League accounted for 64 of the 282 incidents of abuse reported to anti-discrimination group Kick It Out, a 50 percent jump on the first half of the previous season. Racism accounted for just over half of the reports gathered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}