Africa: From Nakamba to Mings, the Racists Appear to Have Finally Crossed the Line

16 October 2019

|JUST nine days after some Aston Villa thugs abused Marvelous Nakamba, his teammate, Tyrone Mings, suffered a similar fate in Bulgaria on Monday in an incident which could be the tipping point in football's battle against racism.

Mings, a 26-year-old black footballer who chose England, rather than Barbados, for his international career, came under a shower of vile racist abuse, including monkey chants, on his debut for the Three Lions in Sofia.

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