WELSH RUGBY INTERNATIONAL Liam Williams has apologised for posting a picture of himself ‘blacked up’ as Swansea City player Wilfriend Bony.

The Scarlets fullback appeared as Bony alongside some team-mates dressed a parrots and gladiators.

Williams initially refused to apologise insisting he did not have “a racist bone in his body” and that Bony himself was “okay with it.”

However, after Show Racism The Red Card – an organisation Williams has worked with before – criticised his actions, the player removed the image and issued an apology: