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I think Neymar had a brilliant reaction to the banana being thrown on the pitch where he simply ate it. Iirc Sterling had a great match one time he had received abuse abroad with England, if it's going to bother you being called names may as well use the emotion to your benefit. Harness the power via your own processing.
Personally I cannot understand how anyone takes online verbal abuse seriously.
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Easy too say when you're not the the one actually suffering the abuse and haven't been dealing with it your whole life, like they have.
You don't know how much of racism a particular player (or person) has had to deal with when they get to that point that that banana thrown at them is the final breaking point and last straw for them that causes them to finally lose it, walk off or to get mad.
You don't know how many times they've already had to,... 'let it slide', ....as it were, or ignore it ,or 'turn it around use it as motivation or whatever',... however you think they should in their lives, prior to that point.
And also, even if they can't or don't, who is anyone to judge someone else if they don't have as high a threshold for abuse as one may feel they should have - particularly if they've never walked a mile in said person's shoes and known what it's like to be treated that way, especially day in and day out?
Different players just like different individuals will deal with it differently as we all have different coping levels in life.
That's just human nature.
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