I think it might well be time for Mario Balotelli to get out of England before he's shipped out in a pine box, if the latest figures from a social-media racism/discrimination report regarding English soccer are to be believed.
The anti-racism group Kick It Out reported today that over 134,000 discriminatory social media posts have been made this season, with over 39,000 of them regarding players in the English Premier League.
Over 20% of that latter figure were pointed toward the African-heritage Balotelli (8,000, with 4,000 of that figure being declared outright racist).
Two other players were also directly researched, including Danny Welbeck (about 1,700 discriminatory posts, half that being declared outright racist) and Daniel Sturridge (1,600 discriminatory, about 1,000 of which actually refer to sexual orientation for some reason).
The fact is this isn't going away until some of the games are simply stopped. Even though anti-racism campaigns have at least been at the fore of FIFA and UEFA affairs for a number of years now, it is evident the problem is becoming worse and more widespread with each passing year.
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