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Footballers Urge Fans to ‘Stand Together’ Against Racism in Holocaust Memorial Day Video

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Harry Kane, Jürgen Klopp and Gary Lineker are among two dozen leading football personalities featured in a video shown at FA Cup fourth-round matches urging people to stand up against hatred and discrimination.

The two-minute video, marking Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 January, features images from the Holocaust cut with images of antisemitic graffiti, Islamophobia and a lesbian couple attacked on a London bus in 2019.

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Man United Tops List of Racism-Related Arrests

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Source: Statista

The Press Association has released data under a Freedom of Information Request which shows the number of football fans arrested by police where racism was a factor. In the four seasons from 2014-2015 to 2017-2018, Manchester United supporters were involved in the most arrests where racism was an aggravating factor – 27. Championship clubs Leeds United and Millwall came joint-second with 15 arrests each while Leicester had 14 and Chelsea had 13.

The figures show that there were 75 arrests at football matches in the 2017-18 season where racism was a factor. Manchester United cited the club’s large attendance figures for the arrests, stating that the percentage of supporters who were involved was miniscule. England and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has been one of the loudest voices against racism in the game and was allegedly targeted during a match against Chelsea last season. In April, the Crown Prosecution Service announced that there was insufficient evidence that the words were racially aggravated.