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It's 2018 and fighting against sexism is a thing of common sense - both sexes should have equal rights and should be treated equally. However, Moscow Spartak's twitter account screwed it all up and tried to backpedal out of the situation.

On September 24th they posted a photo with one of teams TV reporters - Julia Ushakova on their twitter account stating that she would be put on injured reserve with a ''lower-body'' injury.

Many would ask what is wrong with that right? Well... the image was very graphic and very unacceptable by many standards.

Травма нижней части тела у нашей ведущей Юлии Ушаковой. #Спартак поместил нападающую в список травмированных.
Подробности по ссылке: https://t.co/ZEClh44LwQ pic.twitter.com/AMTw7ZhDm4

— Spartak Moscow (@spartak_hc) September 24, 2018

Obviously, teams account was put on blast by multiple world-wide known media outlets describing it as ''wrong and discriminating''.

What happened next... probably was a really bad attempt to fix what had happened and most likely didn't work either.

On October 3rd Ushakova's TV colleague Artyom Batrak had undergone a procedure at a Moscow Hospital and was announced to miss no more than one week and that he would also be put on the IR and the picture that followed was clearly an attempt to save the situation.

Вчера Артём Батрак был успешно прооперирован в одной из московских клиник. #Спартак поместил ведущего клубного телевидения в список травмированных, срок восстановления не более одной недели.
Подробности по ссылке: https://t.co/W6QGuwYrhe pic.twitter.com/s9Mni3Tr9t

— Spartak Moscow (@spartak_hc) October 3, 2018

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