Anton Ferdinand racially abused on social media with monkey and banana emojis after promoting anti-racism documentary where he opens up on alleged abuse by John Terry in 2011

Daily Mail | November 25, 2020

Anton Ferdinand has been subjected to racist abuse on social media in response to promoting his upcoming anti-racism documentary.

The former QPR and West Ham defender posted a clip on his Twitter page for the BBC documentary titled 'Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me'.

Ferdinand addresses the alleged racist abuse by John Terry in 2011 for the first time before widening the debate to explore the deeper issues of racism in football to this day.

Anton Ferdinand (pictured playing for Southend United in 2017) has been subjected to racially abusive messages on social media after he promoted his upcoming anti-racism documentary

John Terry (third left) was alleged to have called Ferdinand (far left) 'a f***ing black c***' back in 2011. Ferdinand reveals that he embraced Terry afterwards having been oblivious

The 35-year-old received hundreds of replies to the clip and one reply, which appears to be from an anonymous account, simply included monkey and banana emojis.