{"id":174146,"date":"2019-12-08T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T13:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=174146"},"modified":"2019-12-08T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T13:36:31","slug":"epl-man-city-release-statement-after-2-1-defeat-to-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=174146","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man City release statement after 2-1 defeat to Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2019\/12\/EPL-Man-City-release-statement-after-2-1-defeat-to-Man.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City have released a statement, condemning racial gestures made towards Manchester United midfielder, Fred, during their 2-1 loss in the Derby on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fred suffered abuse and was stoned with objects, as he stepped up to take a corner kick, with United two goals up.<\/p>\n<p>City\u2019s statement read: \u201cManchester City FC are aware of a video circulating on social media which appears to show a supporter making racial gestures during the second half of the match against Manchester United this evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials from the Club are working with Greater Manchester Police in order to help them identify any individuals concerned and assist with their enquiries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Club are also working with GMP regarding an instance of objects being thrown onto the field of play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Club operates a zero tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City have released a statement, condemning racial gestures made towards Manchester United midfielder, Fred, during their 2-1 loss in the Derby on Saturday. Fred suffered abuse and was stoned with objects, as he stepped up to take a corner kick, with United two goals up. City\u2019s statement read: \u201cManchester City FC are aware of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4368],"class_list":["post-174146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-manchester-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}