Arteta condemns online abuse towards Havertz

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has called for change following the online abuse aimed at Kai Havertz and his family

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00:00We really have to do something about it, because accepting that and hiding this I think has

00:07terrible consequences and it's something that we really have to eradicate from the game

00:13because it's so cynical as well and it's so dependent to a result of an action and there

00:19is no other story like this.

00:2127th of December at home, we win 1-0, Kai Havertz scores a goal and the whole stadium

00:31after that is singing the Waka Waka, that's 20 days ago.

00:36Guys, what is the perspective?

00:39So we are all responsible and all means you guys are responsible, everybody is responsible

00:44for the narrative, everybody is responsible for how we talk and we cannot look somewhere

00:49else.

00:51That's a really serious matter guys and it affects him and it affects me and it affects

00:56everybody that is in the industry in a way.

00:58We can accept and we say that's our job, yes, but there are certain limits and the line

01:03has to be drawn and we put a lot of attention on technology and what is next, what is next

01:09in football.

01:10Next in football might be that this is prohibited, it cannot happen, that's it, that's what we

01:17should aim for.