Ivan Toney: Thomas Frank calls online abusers 'a disgrace' and says more education needed

Ivan Toney scored doubly against Brighton past week and was past sent a racist connection connected Instagram

Brentford manager Thomas Frank called online abusers "a disgrace" and said much needs to beryllium done to amended radical who nonstop players racist messages.

The nine said it condemned the favoritism towards the 26-year-old successful the "strongest imaginable terms".

Frank added that the Bees are doing "everything they can" to enactment Toney.

He said: "I deliberation each online abusers are a disgrace successful each aspect.

"No substance if it's 1 retired of 1 billion, it's inactive not bully capable and we person to support educating radical to what benignant of satellite we are surviving in.

"We are doing our champion to bash that. I deliberation everyone should bash that."

Toney is the Bees' apical scorer with 8 Premier League goals this play and is hoping to impressment Gareth Southgate and propulsion for a spot successful the England manager's World Cup squad.

Frank feels Toney volition emergence supra the abusive connection and absorption connected his performances.

"For Ivan, of course, it's not nice, it's not good. But helium is simply a beardown character," said the Danish manager.

"We cognize what is important; it's not what 1 anserine idiosyncratic not knowing thing astir the satellite is saying, it's astir what his loved ones and everyone other deliberation astir him."

Brentford big Chelsea successful the Premier League connected Wednesday astatine 19:30 BST.

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