education to stamp out racism in football following
an offensive social media post aimed at Scott
Sinclair.
Sinclair expressed his revulsion after he became
aware of a photograph posted online in which he is
mentioned in what appears to be a racist caption.
The picture is of a young girl standing in front of an
artwork depicting monkeys and includes the
caption: 'just bumped into Scott Sinclair at
Edinburgh Zoo'.
A force spokeswoman for Police Scotland said in a
widely released statement: "A 17-year-old woman
is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal in
connection with alleged contravention of section
127 of the Communications Act 2003."
Sinclair tweeted about the post, writing:
"Absolutely disgusted yet again, how can a person
use a child to promote racism, it's beyond me."
Speaking at a news conference on Thursday,
Rodgers said: "Racism, whether it's in football or
society, there's absolutely no place for it.
"Scott has been playing the game for quite a long
time and it says something that it's the first time
he has come across it in his life.
"It shows that education and training is needed to
stamp it out as it should never come into play at
all.
"He is absolutely fine. He has got all the support of
all the people here and the supporters and he
moves on from it."
Last Sunday, Sinclair was the victim of a monkey
chant from a Rangers fan that was caught on
camera during Celtic's 5-1 victory in the Old Firm
derby.
The former Manchester City winger said afterwards:
"This is probably one of the first times it's
happened to me in my career.
"There's no need for the racism in this day and
age. The small minority should be kicked out.
"It just seems in football there's still going to be
people like that but, as myself, you've just got to
deal with it and carry on."
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