The Manager of Tottenham Hotspur, Ange Postecoglou, wants the authorities to “give examples” of anonymous online trolls who are guilty of submitting players, managers and referees to threats and villages.
The Premier League Michael Oliver Referee was put under police protection After a huge reaction arising from his decision to send the arsenal Myles Lewis-Skelly against wolves For an attack, he considered it a serious game. The automatic prohibition of three games that the 18 -year -old was submitted was later rescinded in appeal.
Substantial abuse and threats to Oliver Online, on social media platforms such as X and Instagram, is not, unfortunately, not new, with often led players that can send messages anonymously without fear of repercussions. .
Speaking to the media, postcoglou, who has faced a wave of criticism in the middle TottenhamExecuting the bad form, insisted that there are some “quite easy things” that can be done to start fighting online abuse, starting to eliminate the ability to retain a person’s identity.
“What can we do? Postcogle he said.
“Unfortunately, the anonymity of the world of technology today means that people can hide and allow it to be brave that they would never have if they put their face and name on something, so they are cowards to start. But if They discover, name them, shame on them, put them there and see if anyone goes the same.
Postecoglou added that the laws were launched before social media days to prevent individuals from going in this way, with the problem that seems to be out of control, as society accepts the dangers of technology. Modern.
He continued: “But there should be no tolerance for anyone, be it a referee, a player or anyone else. I think he has been out of hand for some time and we accept it too much as part of society.
“We would never have accepted it before social media if someone said something like this and we knew who said or wrote it. There were laws that made it almost impossible to do Anonymous, the cowards have a voice. “
