Italian sports newspaper accused of fuelling racism with ‘Black Friday’ headline

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Italian daily Corriere dello Sport has been accused of fuelling racism with its front page headline in Thursday’s edition of the newspaper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The paper ran the headline &OpenCurlyQuote;Black Friday’ alongside pictures of Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku and Roma’s Chris Smalling&period; The two former Manchester United team-mates will face each other in Friday’s Serie A meeting between the two teams&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The anti-discrimination Fare network tweeted a picture of the front page along with the message&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The media fuels racism every day&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roma’s English-language Twitter account also expressed its shock and disgust at the headline&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No one&colon; Absolutely nobody&colon; Not a single soul&colon;” it said before adding &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Corriere dello Sport headline writer&colon;” together with an image of the front page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">No one&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Absolutely nobody&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Not a single soul&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Corriere dello Sport headline writer&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;u2xpMLV5IH">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;u2xpMLV5IH<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; AS Roma English &lpar;&commat;ASRomaEN&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;ASRomaEN&sol;status&sol;1202489958281437184&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">December 5&comma; 2019<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Inter did not reference the newspaper article&comma; but tweeted&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Football is passion&comma; culture and brotherhood&period; We are and will always be against all forms of discrimination&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Serie A has been plagued by racist incidents this season&comma; with Lukaku himself and Brescia forward Mario Balotelli among those to make allegations of being racially abused by supporters during games&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed33d79ba8b">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed33d79ba8b'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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