Connor Goldson is encouraged by the fact that society is willing to have difficult discussions about racism within sport – but the Rangers defender insists that more can be done to eradicate it from the game.

Goldson has himself been subjected to racist abuse on social media with depressing regularity, particularly when he and his team-mates started ‘taking the knee’ before matches to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Speaking on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by American police, Goldson feels that the greater awareness of racism throughout society can only be a good thing – but the 28-year-old reckons far more can be done to stamp out abusive behaviour online.

He told Sky Sports: “I feel it’s got more visible in both senses. The world is becoming more aware of it. Take Sky Sports for example – I see Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher speaking openly about it on Monday Night Football.

“They’ll speak for long portions of time and you’ll see them admitting that they never used to see the problem but now they are.

“I think that can only be good because it makes it more visible. But it’s also becoming more visible in the sense that there’s more of it.

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“You look at social media and we’ve all seen what’s happened with the boycott but I’ve said it before – it’s not enough.

“Every single weekend there’s someone targeted. It’s just such an easy place to be able to write whatever you want and get away with it.

“I think it’s a good thing that it’s becoming more visible as it means more people are able to see that it’s out there and that it happens every single week, every day.

“The more we can shed light on it, the more we start talking about it – it can only help the education of younger people, the education of our generation and the education of older people.

“We’ve come through generations where it’s been allowed and it’s been accepted. It’s gone on for so long that the next generation after us can see it clearly, so they can stamp it out as much as possible.”