Tottenham haven’t covered themselves in glory as Manor Solomon continues to be embroiled in controversy.
The Lilywhites shared a post via X (16 June) which highlighted four of their players and major life updates away from North London.
This featured a pregnancy announcement for James Maddison, while Dejan Kulusevski was married, and Richarlison welcomed a new child to his family.
Solomon was included in this by Tottenham, as he and his wife were also married after the winger won the Championship title while on loan at Leeds United.
This sparked widespread comments about the 25-year-old and his nationality, which sparked behaviour from the admin behind Tottenham’s X account, which has since been apologised for.
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With Solomon being a full international with Israel, some of the replies to Spurs’ post on X referenced the war in Gaza and the player’s previous backing of Israel, while some replies were abusive.
In response, several of these accounts were blocked. However, this in itself has sparked controversy on social media, and rather than releasing a statement via official channels, the Lilywhites have opted to apologise via The Times (17 June), in an article behind a paywall, while confirming that the accounts which were wrongly blocked had now been unblocked.
The Tottenham statement reads: “Tottenham Hotspur is proud of the rich diversity that exists within all our communities and amongst our global fanbase. Abuse and discrimination of any kind has no place at our club, within our game or within wider society.
“In line with our published sanctions and banning policy, the club reserves the right to take action against individuals using discriminatory and/or threatening or abusive language towards players, whether in the stadium or online.
“This may extend to reporting, removing or hiding comments and, in some instances, blocking offending accounts on all social media platforms other than X. This is an automated process carried out via an online tool deployed by the club.”
This may be a fair and well-reasoned apology, but not releasing it to the wider public due to the payment needed feels incredibly sly.
With that in mind, Tottenham News have approached Spurs for comment, but are yet to receive a reply.
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Unfortunately, social media is always going to have an element of toxicity surrounding it, something which the Lilywhites aren’t going to be able to control.
There has been constant negativity surrounding the likes of Daniel Levy for many years, but blocking accounts won’t help that.
This has already been showcased with Solomon, proving that this method does more harm than good and causes additional problems.
With that being said, there are better ways to go about rectifying these sorts of issues and sticking a statement behind a paywall certainly isn’t that.