If I could add my views into the mix.
I grew up with Trevor on hillock estate in whitefield in the 80s, lived round the corner from eachother , went to the same school, played in the same football teams and hung about in the same gang together with other kids on the estate.
I can say with absolute honesty that he suffered racist abuse quite a lot, him and his sister got it from older lads, parents, strangers, I've seen him get into fights on numerous occasions after being called horrible and degrading names, things a 10, 11, 12 year old should never have been subjected to.
Now I'm not saying what he did was right and that it was some kind of retribution but he got racially abused up until his early teens and I've no doubt he suffered it on and off the football pitch in his career.
He'd obviously reached boiling point and reacted and gave it back.
This incident might have absolutely nothing to do with what has gone on in his life and I'm not saying what he's done was justified but he had it tough growing up and no child whatever race, colour or creed should have had to endure what I witnessed in the 80s.