My mother was in tears: Tammy Abraham after facing racial abuse

Atlanta [USA]: Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham has revealed that his mother was left in tears after learning that he faced racial abuse on social media.
Abraham had to face racial abuse after missing a penalty in the penalty shootout against Liverpool in the Super Cup last month.
“I remember speaking to my mum, she was emotional, she was in tears. You know she is just thinking: ‘Why him? Why him?’ It’s obviously not nice to hear, especially seeing your son getting abused,” CNN quoted Abraham as saying.
“For me, I am always a strong character, it does not affect me as much. But saying that, it could affect people who do not have my personality. It was a challenging moment for me, I went through a lot of emotions. Everyone misses penalties but to miss a penalty I was obviously devastated,” he added.
Over the past couple of months, several players have faced racial abuse on social media. Manchester United’s Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford were also subjected to racial abuse after missing goal-scoring opportunities. Twitter had to intervene and they rolled out a statement saying “action against more than 700 incidents of abuse related to British football was taken”.
“It just gives everyone an excuse to go online, behind their laptops, behind their phones, to say what they want. Some people might not think we see it, but we do see it and they just want to get a reaction. So Twitter needs to understand that,” Abraham said.