A pundit, Luciano Passirani with an Italian TV has been suspended for making a racist remark on air about Inter striker Romelu Lukaku.

Passirani commented on Sunday’s TopCalcio24 while praising Lukaku’s Inter performance this season after the Nerazzurri defeated Udinese 1-0  in their third victory of Series A matches this season.

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A clip was subsequently shared on social media and Passirani has now been banned from appearing on the show.

“Mr Passirani is 80 years old and to compliment Lukaku he used a metaphor that turned out to be racist,” programme director Fabio Ravezzani, who also confirmed Passirani had apologised, stated.

“I think it was a terrible lack of momentary lucidity. I cannot tolerate any kind of errors, even if momentary.”

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Lukaku made the switch to Inter from Manchester United in the August and has scored twice in three Serie A outings thus far.

Lukaku was the target of abuse in Inter’s win over Cagliari last month.

Monkey chants could be heard as the Belgium striker converted a penalty in the 2-1 win, with Lukaku posting on Instagram afterwards: “Football is a game to be enjoyed and we shouldn’t accept any form of discrimination that will put our game in shame.

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“Ladies and gentlemen it’s 2019 instead of going forwards we’re going backwards.”

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