Tottenham probe into alleged racist abuse towards Rudiger ‘inconclusive’ as membership scours footage and deploys lip readers

Tottenham Hotspur say their investigation into alleged racist abuse towards Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger has to this point been “inconclusive” – however vowed to proceed to work “exhaustively” on the case.

Rudiger signaled that he had been focused by monkey chants from residence followers at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium throughout Chelsea’s 2-Zero win on Sunday.

That prompted a Premier League first as a stadium announcement was made warning followers that racist abuse wouldn’t be tolerated, as a part of protocols applied to aim to deal with abuse.

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Spurs vowed to analyze the difficulty – however on Monday issued an replace stating that to this point their findings had proved “inconclusive.”

“Throughout yesterday’s match towards Chelsea, Antonio Rudiger reported listening to alleged racist abuse from a person(s) within the South Stand,” the assertion learn.

“We’re capable of monitor each fan by way of the cameras and have spent many hours reviewing CCTV footage. We have now engaged lip readers to review the footage and contacted Chelsea for additional data from their gamers. We have now additionally taken statements from different events current on the time. The police shall be reviewing our proof alongside us. Please be assured we will be exhaustively investigating this matter,” it added.

“This Membership has a proud monitor file of anti-racism work throughout all our communities and we’re decided to make sure that we conduct an intensive investigation. Any fan discovered to be responsible will obtain a lifetime ban. At the moment nevertheless we must always level out that our findings are inconclusive and would ask that remark is reserved till the information are established.”

In the meantime, police have confirmed Chelsea fan was ejected from the bottom and arrested for abusing Spurs’ South Korean star Son Heung-min.

Son was despatched off throughout the sport for aiming an upwards kick at Rudiger whereas grounded.  

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