Semenyo speaks out after reporting racist abuse

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Premier League footballer Antoine Semenyo says supporters who racially abuse players need to face much tougher punishments. The Bournemouth star has spoken out for the first time to ITV News since he reported a racist comment during their match against Liverpool last week. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00It's kind of shocking to be honest, I feel like there was so much emotion behind the game,

00:05obviously Jota and his brother passing, so I felt like it was just a great way to symbolise

00:10like the first game of the season and obviously 30 minutes in, that unexpected happened to be

00:16honest, so I'm pretty shocked. A lot of things to be honest, I think I wanted to react but I knew

00:22that wasn't the right thing to do so I just stayed calm and I knew when the ball went out again I

00:27just informed the referee of what happened. So you immediately thought I have to do something

00:32about this? Yeah definitely, 100%. I wasn't going to stay silent, I think some players end up telling

00:38the referee after the game where the fan is still in the stadium or maybe left by them but

00:43I made sure that I told him straight away.

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