Huddersfield contact police after midfielder Billing racially abused

Billing, a Denmark international of Nigerian descent, earlier tweeted an expletive-laden message he received on Instagram on Tuesday, in which the sender made a racist remark and asked the 22-year-old to "leave our club."

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"Huddersfield ...has a zero-tolerance stance towards any form of discrimination. We will give our full cooperation to the police to deal with this matter in the strongest possible way," a club spokesman said on Wednesday.

Billing, who has made 26 league appearances for Huddersfield this season scoring two goals, received backing from anti-discrimination group Kick It Out, which called on social media companies to tackle online abuse.

"Players should be protected from abuse on and off the pitch," it said in a Tweet.

Huddersfield, bottom of the league with just 14 points from 30 matches, travel to West Ham United on Saturday.

(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Christian Radnedge and John Stonestreet)