Lukaku racially abused again on Italian TV

[oakiecokie]

An Italian television station says it will not use one of its pundits again after he made a racist comment about Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku.

Speaking on TopCalcio24, Luciano Passirani said: "If you go one-on-one with him he will murder you.

"The only way to come up against him is maybe give him 10 bananas to eat..."

Programme director Fabio Ravezzani said, despite Passirani's "immediate apologies" that "he could no longer participate in our broadcasts".

Lukaku, who moved from Manchester United to Inter in the summer, helped his side to a 1-0 win against Udinese on Saturday.

"Mr Passirani is 80 years old and to compliment Lukaku he used a metaphor that turned out to be racist," added Ravezzani.

"I think it was a terrible lack of momentary lucidity.

"I cannot tolerate any kind of errors, even if momentary."

 

[HelloCity]

An Italian television station says it will not use one of its pundits again after he made a racist comment about Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku.

Speaking on TopCalcio24, Luciano Passirani said: "If you go one-on-one with him he will murder you.

"The only way to come up against him is maybe give him 10 bananas to eat..."

Programme director Fabio Ravezzani said, despite Passirani's "immediate apologies" that "he could no longer participate in our broadcasts".

Lukaku, who moved from Manchester United to Inter in the summer, helped his side to a 1-0 win against Udinese on Saturday.

"Mr Passirani is 80 years old and to compliment Lukaku he used a metaphor that turned out to be racist," added Ravezzani.

"I think it was a terrible lack of momentary lucidity.

"I cannot tolerate any kind of errors, even if momentary."

Bloody hell.

 

[citytill1die84]

Wow

 

[oakiecokie]

Bloody hell.

One of the world nationalities in Europe for this type of behaviour.

 

[KentBlue]

Stupid thing to say, absolutely bloody ridiculous. Don't TV shows have some kind of test to ensure that the person being interviewed is of sound mind, or something?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Wow - Italian football....

At what point does someone from outside the game step in.

 

[Mayor West]

And yet the director is STILL trying to defend the comments in the statement!!!? Unbelievable.

 

[bluemoon32]

Awful comment ffs, what the fcuk is wrong with people.
In saying that, bet Mr Passirani wishes he worked for Sky and played for Liverpool.
Few weeks off air and then welcomed back with open arms would have been his punishment,

 

[KS55]

Stupid thing to say, absolutely bloody ridiculous. Don't TV shows have some kind of test to ensure that the person being interviewed is of sound mind, or something?

Especially stupid since it is well known that Lukaku prefers pies, apparently.

 

[Proy]

The Italians have a major issue.

Its clearly not being dealt with internal so time for someone outside to step in and deal with it.

I love Italian football, often making trips for serie a games, but this part of it really leaves a sour taste. Makes me think twice every time I book.