While England were putting six past Iran in their World Cup opener yesterday afternoon, a Yorskhireman was found guilty of sending manager Gareth Southgate a racist message having been incensed by the players taking a knee.
Brian Martin, 36 and from Selby, sent an expletive-laden email to Southgate on 4 June after England lost 1-0 to Hungary in Budapest, according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
The CPS said that Martin used racist language to refer to black players in the team, criticised the England manager for decisions he had taken and for defeats the team had suffered while expressing anger at the team’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
