{"id":51365,"date":"2026-05-05T20:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=51365"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:20:53","slug":"manchester-city-condemns-racist-abuse-targeting-antoine-semenyo-and-marc-guehi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/premier-league\/manchester-city-condemns-racist-abuse-targeting-antoine-semenyo-and-marc-guehi\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City condemns racist abuse targeting Antoine Semenyo and Marc Gu\u00e9hi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Manchester City has issued a strong club statement condemning racist abuse directed at forward <strong>Antoine Semenyo<\/strong> during their Premier League match against Everton and expressing disappointment over vile racist social media attacks on defender <strong>Marc Gu\u00e9hi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Club Statement in Full<\/h3>\n<blockquote dir=\"auto\">\n<p dir=\"auto\">\u201cManchester City strongly condemns the racist abuse directed towards Antoine Semenyo at yesterday\u2019s match. We welcome the swift action taken by Everton and the police to identify the individual responsible. We are also incredibly disappointed to hear that Marc Gu\u00e9hi was subject to a series of vile racist social media posts last night. We will continue to offer our full support to both Antoine and Marc and never accept discrimination of any kind in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 dir=\"auto\">Incident Details<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"auto\">The statement follows Everton\u2019s 3-3 draw with Manchester City on Monday, May 4, 2026. Reports indicate that a supporter was arrested at Goodison Park after allegedly directing racist abuse at Semenyo. Everton and police acted quickly to identify the individual.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Separately, Crystal Palace and former Chelsea defender Marc Gu\u00e9hi faced a wave of racist abuse on social media after a mistake during the match contributed to Everton\u2019s first goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City has issued a strong club statement condemning racist abuse directed at forward Antoine Semenyo during their Premier League\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":51366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4650],"tags":[3800],"class_list":["post-51365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","tag-manchester-city"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51367,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions\/51367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}