Staggies support Social Media Boycott

From 3.00pm on Friday 30^th April to Midnight on Monday 3^rd May 2021, Ross County will join the #FootballUnites movement with a boycott of all social media.

This will see no interaction from the club on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn for the entire period as we unite with other clubs and organisations across Scottish football in response to continuing online racist and discriminatory abuse.

Football should always be an inclusive environment supporting and encouraging diversity and equality at all levels. We can all play our part by supporting this boycott to ensure that more is done to pro-actively tackle racist and discriminatory abuse online.

Players, players families, staff and fans across the Scottish game have been exposed to totally unnecessary and disgusting racist and discriminatory abuse in recent times. This campaign is also a call to work with social media companies to ensure we all form a stronger frontier to rid our game and society of this abuse.

CEO Steven Ferguson said “Having taken part in the SFA Equality Summit a couple of weeks ago it is clear to see that as individuals, clubs and as a whole we need to and can do more to tackle discrimination and abuse within Scottish Football and our society. This season more than most has highlighted the need for constructive action and unity to continue to try and stamp out any form of discrimination.”

“Football is for all. Ross County is a community club that covers a vast area and it is our belief that nobody should be discriminated against and everybody should be supported and encouraged to be part of the game we all love.”