Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has decided to start a new program named ‘The Senior Player Program on Diversity and Equality’. The motive behind starting this is to inform the various players of the Premier League not to use abusive language on the field or in the dressing room, jokingly or seriously.
There are five ways in which a player cannot be abused, which includes race, religion, disability, gender, and sexual orientation.
Last few seasons witnessed some senior players getting involved in verbal controversies. Notable names among them are, Chelsea captain John Terry, who racially abused QPR’s Anton Ferdinand, Liverpool’s Luis Suarez, who racially abused Manchester United‘s Patrice Evra.
According to PFA: “Players will be given a list of unacceptable words and will also be warned not to wind-up opposition by using “any reference to someone’s colour, religion sexuality or anything related to disability”.
Guilty players will not be warned and instead their contracts with the respective clubs will be terminated.”
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