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Trevor Sinclair, former Manchester City star is now under investigation by talkSport after the Englishman said that \u2018black\u2019 and \u2018brown\u2019 people should not mourn the Queen\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
The sports radio outlet where Sinclair works as a football expert and commentator is looking into him.<\/p>\n
Shortly after the Queen\u2019s passing was revealed, the former City star is rumored to have tweeted that racism in the UK had \u201cthrived\u201d during her 70-year reign.<\/p>\n
The Queen, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 96 in Balmoral, set the sports world on edge.<\/p>\n
However, Sinclair believed that people who are black or brown should not pay the monarch their last respects.<\/p>\n
\u201cRacism was outlawed in England in the 60\u2019s & it\u2019s been allowed to thrive so why should black and brown mourn!!\u201d he boldly tweeted, according to Manchester Evening News.<\/p>\n
READ ALSO:<\/strong> Premier League Postpones Weekend\u2019s Games To Honour Queen Elizabeth II<\/p>\n And shortly after his tweet, Talksport announced that it was attempting to make contact with the former Premier League star to discuss the tweet.<\/p>\n It said: \u201ctalkSport does not support those views expressed and is investigating the matter.\u201d Sinclair\u2019s comments further received a furious backlash from colleagues.<\/p>\n Former Crystal Palace owner, Simon Jordan, who also works with talkSport with Sinclair, said, \u201cTrev, I\u2019m really not sure that is an appropriate thought, let alone tweet.<\/p>\n The country has lost a very significant person and respect and value should be the overriding sentiments not division!\u201d<\/p>\n Georgie Bingham, another colleague of Sinclair at talkSport, said: \u201cBloody hell Trev. What the hell are you thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n And former Peterborough United striker, Aaron McLean added: \u201cTo say I\u2019m confused as to why you\u2019ve felt the need to tweet this is an understatement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trevor Sinclair, former Manchester City star is now under investigation by talkSport after the Englishman said that \u2018black\u2019 and \u2018brown\u2019 people should not mourn the Queen\u2019s death. The sports radio outlet where Sinclair works as a football expert and commentator is looking into him. Shortly after the Queen\u2019s passing was revealed, the former City star […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}