Echo News Southend United condemns racial abuse sent to Oldham player after Wembley final

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Southend United has condemned racial abuse sent to an Oldham Athletic player following Southend United's loss in the play-off final at Wembley

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[JCB]

Inexcusable and stupid thing to do to anyone - let alone a footballer who represented our club so well during a difficult period. Hope they find the idiot who did it and throw the book at him

 

[lreed567]

Absolutely ridiculous and no need for this, I'm sure they will get the idiot that's done this and rightly so should be banned, and a player who never really did anything wrong at our club when he was here. To be honest even if he had left under bad terms he doesn't deserve that

 

[Hooly]

Not acceptable at all & very unfortunate given the service the player gave plus the fantastic rapport there was between the two sets of fans on Sunday. This moron does not represent the Southend United I recognise.

 

[Trucking shrimper]

Absolute scumbag. Don’t care if they’re season ticket holders who go to every away game. We don’t need or want them anywhere near our club. Lifetime ban at the very minimum.

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

Lifetime ban and involve the police! Unforgiveable from the individual and not the kind of person we want to be connected to the club.

 

[in the know]

Hope publicly shamed with pics exposing who they are.

 

[RobB11]

So daft so dumb hang your head in shame you cretin.

 

[Andyhsufc]

Shameful

 

[Tinks]

I was a Shaun Hobson supporter when he played for us and always kept an eye out for him after he left. I have a lot of time for Shaun as he was a good servant to us and stayed with us during some of the darker times and the ONLY REASON he left us was for him to be closer to his family (who he did miss)
I really don’t like seeing and reading things like this and now we are talking about one person out of thousands that went yesterday

 

[gatecrasher]

Shaun was a consulate pro, in fact wish we still had him, great player at this level. How is it now we are 50 odd years on from black players being part of the game that this crap still happens - ridiculous

 

[* ORM *]

Neanderthal scumbag

 

[bazzashrimper]

Not wanted near our great club. Ban them for life

 

[Target man]

Hope they find the culprit, name and shame them and give a life ban. Inexcusable and disgusting.

 

[The Original Tribal Chief]

Pearls clutched.

For the record, I don't have an account on X anymore.

 

[Special Blue]

This scumbag makes our fantastic fan base look bad!
People reading this in the paper will think this is a Southend supporter.
I don't for one minute feel this is a genuine supporter, a daytripper who's last game at any stadium was 10 years ago!
For all the good words from other teams for our support one ******** sets it back.

 

[Hampshire Shrimp]

These Scumbags think they can hide behind their keyboards and post what they like without being found. This Scumbag when found, because he will be, needs to be named and shamed and not ever allowed to set foot in a football stadium ever again.
It would be the clearest message to all that it will not be tolerated.

 

[The Original Tribal Chief]

I think that's enough internet for me today.

 

[Fitz]

Scumbag, lifetime ban, feel for Shaun, lovely guy from what I saw and wish him all the best in the EFL with Okdham.

Such a shame one idiot can tarnish our reputation

 

[CanveyCastle]

Many of us on the Zone use names other than our own.

Anyone can pretend to be a fan of any club and post offensive stuff on any site on t'internet and cause untold problems --- just saying.