Aberdeen ‘condemns racist abuse’ targeting captain Anthony Stewart

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Aberdeen has condemned the alleged racist abuse aimed at club captain Anthony Stewart.

The centre-back was the target of alleged racist abuse on social media following the 3-1 defeat to St Mirren on Christmas Eve.

The 30-year-old had shouted the comment himself, with Aberdeen FC now investigating the matter.

Stewart said on his personal Instagram page: “There are a lot of ups and downs in this beautiful game and I take full responsibility for my mistake, which cost us three points.

“But I will not take racist abuse lightly.”

Stewart was sent off in the loss at Paisley after taking down Jonah Ayunga to concede the first of three penalties against his side.

Now Aberdeen have released a statement from the club confirming a ‘rigorous internal investigation’ is underway and saying ‘we simply will not tolerate this type of abuse’.

A statement from Aberdeen read: We strongly condemn all forms of discrimination and are shocked by the racist abuse directed at our captain, Anthony Stewart.

Anthony has our full support and as a Club we are currently carrying out a rigorous internal investigation to try to identify the person responsible.

Aberdeen FC are free from any form of discrimination and we simply will not tolerate this type of abuse.

After the weekend loss, Jim Goodwin said: It’s hard to take. Giving away three penalties in any game is pretty weird.

And being up front and playing as well as we did in the first 15 minutes of the game and then shooting ourselves in the foot like we did was the hardest part.

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