SINGAPORE — Singapore football officials vowed "zero tolerance" of racism on Wednesday after a visiting Liberian player responded to racial taunts by raising his middle finger to the crowd.
Abuse of Terengganu's Francis Forkey Doe, 26, began in the warm-up of Tuesday's Malaysia Cup quarter-final second leg against Singapore's Lions XII, and was also directed at a dark-skinned linesman, according to witnesses.
"There was a group of maybe seven or eight fans at the opposite end of the grandstand who were making racial slurs... Orang hitam (black man) and even nigger also came out," undergraduate Muhammad Nadjad Bin Abdul Rahim, 24, told AFP. Full story