An Australian football club has issued a grovelling apology after its players dressed in blackface as Serena and Venus Williams

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• An Australian football club has issued a grovelling apology after three of its players were photographed in blackface.
• The athletes were dressed as tennis champions Serena Williams and Venus Williams and Kenyan-born football player Aliir Aliir.
• The incident follows the controversy surrounding Australian newspaper The Herald Sun's mean-spirited crusade against Serena Williams after the American's outburst at the 2018 US Open final.

Three football players have been photographed dressed in blackface as tennis champions Serena Williams and Venus Williams.

The athletes play for the Australian Rules Football team Penguin Football Club, a sports team based in Tasmania, according to The Washington Post.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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