I study law at uni, not done employment law yet but done a bit on human rights and freedom of expression etc. From what I can gather it was bad taste but nothing more than that and so he hasn't done anything wrong in the eyes of the law. It is also not anything directly to do with his job unless he has clauses in his contract about his image rights/representing the image of the club which is probably the most likely reason they have got involved.

You are a resident of the festering cesspit that is known as Kings Town upon Hull (but that was too difficult for it’s inhabitants to pronounce so the locals shortened it to Kingston upon Hull but even that was too hard to get their tiny intellect round so the shortened it even further to Hull but still… too hard so they have ended up calling their hovel ‘ull. By the end of the century it will know by the indigenous simpletons as just “ll”)

This means you sit so far down the food chain that us Loiners can barely even make out your interbred, web-toed figures way off in the distance. You are beneath us so your comments carry little or no meaning.

No pop off you substandard specimen, isn’t it time your mother-sister put you to bed – school tomorrow.

You know what daft lad... Fair play! I haven't got a comeback that would beat that!

Remind me to stay on the right side of you LS16!!!

It is now.

Don't know if its posted elsewhere but a small BBC article on this very subject


rlhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12775389rl