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Racism group want action over Silva's tweet

Kick It Out have called on the Football Association to punish Bernardo Silva after branding a tweet sent by the Manchester City midfielder as "offensive behaviour."

Silva tweeted -- and subsequently deleted -- an image that compared teammate Benjamin Mendy to a character on a packet of chocolate sweets.

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The Portugal international, a close friend of Mendy's after playing together at Monaco, later tweeted: "Can't even joke with a friend these days.