• Reece James among those targeted online
  • Abramovich: ‘We cannot allow this to continue unchecked’

The Chelsea owner, Roman Abramovich, has written to his players promising to increase funding to efforts to stamp out discrimination after a spate of incidents of online abuse over the last week.

Chelsea’s Reece James shared vile messages he had been sent, while Manchester United trio Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Axel Tuanzebe were also targeted by racist abuse along with West Brom’s Romaine Sawyers.

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