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Bent knees and t-shirt messages are simply knives in a gunfight... racism in football is a cancer and more must be done to stomp it out for good, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI

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Of all the questions asked on Friday night, Antoine Semenyo cut to the heart of football’s racism problem with some efficiency.

It came in a social media post a few hours after a curtain-raiser between Bournemouth and Liverpool that was, by turns, emotional, fabulous, pulsating, and utterly appalling.

Of course, the latter traced to the interaction half an hour in, when a Liverpool supporter is alleged to have racially abused Semenyo, necessitating the pausing of the match and, eventually, the fan’s ejection from Anfield.

Was it the same supporter in a wheelchair who was later escorted out by police?