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("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Semenyo, who was then playing for Bournemouth, was allegedly racially abused by Mark Mogan, 47, as he went to take a throw-in about 30 minutes into the opening match of the Premier League season on August 15 last year.
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he → play → August
Simon Jones, prosecuting, told Liverpool Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday the footballer saw Mogan, a wheelchair-user, to his right-hand side and heard him shout: “Hurry up and take the throw-in, you black bastard.”
He said: “That racial abuse was shouted directly at Antoine Semenyo, who was close to him.
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who → prosecute → him
Mr Semenyo briefly froze as he couldn’t believe what the male had said.”
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male → freeze → what
Mogan then shouted “I’m talking to you, you c***”, the court heard.
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court → shout → *
Mr Jones said: “He looked straight at Antoine Semenyo when directing this abuse to him.
“Antoine Semenyo didn’t say anything back to him and went to take the throw-in, however he was clearly hurt and upset with the racial abuse that had come his way.”
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that → say → abuse
The footballer, who now plays for Manchester City, reported the incident to match referee Anthony Taylor when the ball next went out of play and Mogan was removed from the stadium at half time, the court was told.
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court → play → time
Two short video clips of the incident were shown to the court, in which Mr Jones said the defendant could be seen in an “agitated and angry state”.
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defendant → show → state
He said witnesses saw Mogan take chewing gum from his mouth and throw it at Semenyo, striking him on the right side of his shorts.
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Mogan → say → shorts
Mr Jones said: “We say that was plainly an unsavoury action from an angry man.”
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that → say → man
In a statement read to the court, fellow Liverpool fan Neil Sherratt said he saw Mogan, who sits next to him at matches, leave his bay in the disabled section of the Main Stand and approach the pitch as Semenyo came to take the throw in.
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Semenyo → read → throw
He said he heard Mogan shout something along the lines of “hurry up” and saw Semenyo turn towards him.
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Semenyo → say → him
He said: “Semenyo had a shocked look on his face and I believe he has replied back by saying ‘you what’.”
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you → say → face
Another fan, Nicholas Collins, said after the incident Mogan became “very cocky and brazen” and said: “If the bizzies (police) come I’m going to deck them.
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I → say → them
I’m not going anywhere.”
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I → go → ?
Mogan, who had an intermediary with him in court, was interviewed by police the following day and told officers he had shouted at Semenyo to “hurry up”.
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he → have → Semenyo
“His account was that Antoine Semenyo called him a cripple which upset him,” Mr Jones said.
“He said he then threw some chewing gum onto the floor but not at Antoine Semenyo.
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he → call → Semenyo
“The prosecution say Mr Mogan clearly lied in that police interview.”
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Mogan → say → interview
Semenyo is expected to give evidence over a videolink on Wednesday afternoon.
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Semenyo → expect → afternoon
Mogan, of Templehill Close, Dovecot, denies racially aggravated behaviour.
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Mogan → deny → behaviour
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