Romelu Lukaku: 'Give him 10 bananas before you stop him' - sacked pundit

- Romelu Lukaku became the reason for the sacking of Italian football pundit Luciano Passirani

- The Italian commentator had made racist comments about the Inter Milan on a TV show

- Director of the channel later apologized to Lukaku and immediately kicked out Passirani

Romelu Lukaku has got an Italian commentator Luciano Passirani sacked on his behalf after the journalist made racist remarks about the Inter Milan forward.

The former Manchester United striker was a guest in a talk show called TopCalcio24 hosted by Passirani.

And the Italian commentator went on to suggest that the only way to stop Lukaku from making his way past defenders could be to "give him ten bananas" in order to out-muscle him.

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He said: "I don't see in the Italian league a player like Lukaku in any team, not in AC Milan, Inter, Rome, Lazio.

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"He's one of the strongest and I like him a lot because he's one of the strongest, he's at least twice as strong as (Duvan) Zapata from Atalanta.

"These players have something more than the others, these are the guys who make the goals and drag the team.

"If they go one-on-one with you you're dead, you fall to the ground. The only way to out-muscle him is to give him ten bananas to eat."

Passiriani tried to play down the joke and quickly apologized he did not intend to be racist.

But he was immediately kicked out after TV channel director Fabio Ravezzani appeared on-air to immediately issue an apology to Lukaku and confirmed Parssirani would never appear on the network again.

Luakku later tweeted: "Only a fraction of the transmission was spread widely, cutting off the guest's subsequent apology that he had a moment of unpredictable confusion thinking of making a joke.

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Lukaku was racially abused during Inter Milan's 2-1 away win at Cagliari as fans made monkey chants at the striker when he stepped up to take a penalty.

Lukaku wrote: "Many players in the last month have suffered from racial abuse. I did yesterday too.

"Football is a game to be enjoyed by everyone and we shouldn't accept any form of discrimination that will put our game in shame.

"I hope the football federations all over the world react strongly on all cases of discrimination!

"Social media platforms ( Instagram , Twitter , Facebook ) need to work better as well with football clubs because every day you see at least a racist comment under a post of a person of colour.

"We've been saying it for years and still no action.

"Ladies and gentlemen it's 2019. Instead of going forward we're going backwards and I think as players we need [to] unify and make a statement on this matter to keep this game clean and enjoyable for everyone."

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Meanwhile,Tuko.co.ke had earlier reported that Belgium international Romelu Lukaku was in superb form on Sunday, August 11, scoring four goals on his debut for his new club Inter Milan in their 8-0 win over Virtus Bergamo.

The encounter was a pre-season friendly and Romelu Lukaku proved that he is a worthy addition to Antonio Conte's team after joining from Manchester United.

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