The people of Aberystwyth will take the knee this evening in solidarity with those who experience racism, after three black England football players were racially abused earlier this week.

Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho experienced an outpouring of online racist abuse after they missed penalties in the Euro 2020 final shootout against Italy.

In the wake of this, Aberystwyth Together: Say No To Racism have organised a ’take the knee’ event in the Castle Grounds tonight, at 7pm.

Organiser Rhodri Francis said: “This isn’t just in England; we have to be united as brothers and sisters across the world.

“It’s part of a wider international thing, it does affect us, not just footballers. My wife suffered online racist abuse a few weeks ago.

“It happens everywhere and people don’t talk about it. It’s not their fault, it just feels as though there isn’t anybody to speak to.

“The purpose of this event is part of a wider movement, we have people now contacting us to speak about the racism they have suffered. They want to get it out of their system and we want to put pressure on the authorities and ask them the questions.

“This is not an anti-police thing, it’s just us asking questions.”

Rhodri is keen to “keep the momentum” of the movement after they held a Say No To Racism rally on 26 June.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson today announced that football banning orders will be changed to cover online racism in the wake of Sunday.

He said the UK government was taking ‘practical steps’ to ensure the rules are changed to include online racism which would lead to people being banned from attending football matches if convicted of online racist abuse.