{"id":9853,"date":"2010-05-19T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/19\/leicester-city-player-in-racial-outburst\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T15:45:22","slug":"leicester-city-player-in-racial-outburst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/19\/leicester-city-player-in-racial-outburst\/","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City player in racial outburst"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Club launch investigation <\/h3>\n<div><strong>LEICESTER City Football Club has launched an investigation following reports a player launched into a racial tirade against ethnic minorities at the clubs training ground.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Reports allege defender Wayne Brown could be sold by the East Midlands club following the outburst. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He allegedly boasted to team mates that he voted for the British National Party in the recent elections before claiming ethnic minorities were \u201ckilling this country\u201d, the Daily Mail reported. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The tirade left team-mates fuming in a dressing room made up of Asian, black and mixed-race players.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The ex-Hull player was suspended from the club&#8217;s Championship playoff semi-final against Cardiff, which Leicester lost on penalties.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Leicester City released a statement saying: &#8220;Leicester City Football Club would like to issue the following statement regarding the recent enquiries concerning Leicester City player, Wayne Brown.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Wayne Brown remains a Leicester City player and any alleged incidents will be investigated and dealt with internally.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Club launch investigation LEICESTER City Football Club has launched an investigation following reports a player launched into a racial tirade against ethnic minorities at the clubs training ground. &#13; Reports allege defender Wayne Brown could be sold by the East Midlands club following the outburst. &#13; He allegedly boasted to team mates that he voted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}