Police are investigating a string of racist messages sent to Southampton defender Kyle Walker-Peters.
Southampton reported the vile abuse that appeared under one of Walker-Peters’ Instagram posts following Sunday’s 0-0 draw at Manchester United, and hit out at social media firms ‘who allow such hatred to breed and fester’.
Some of the messages remained on Walker-Peters’s post on Monday though Meta, who own Instagram, insisted ‘a number’ had been deleted and vowed to continue to take action against any comments that break their rules.
It is unclear, though, why those that still appeared were not taken down.