Fran Prtichard's wife ends silence on 'monkey' racial slur THE wife of Canterbury star Frank Pritchard has vowed to avoid attending games at Manly in future after recalling the disturbing moment at Brookvale Oval last Friday night when she was called a monkey in front of her four-year-old daughter. Raima Pritchard was celebrating husband Frank's try in the first half when she and the group she was sitting with were set upon by a handful of spectators. The abuse occurred in full view of her daughter Kaizen, who was celebrating her fourth birthday. Pritchard said she feared for her safety before the families of Pritchard's teammates Trent Hodkinson and Josh Reynolds intervened. "I told her (Kaizen) don't worry about it, daddy just scored a try, keep going," Pritchard said. We were trying to block her ears. We were very lucky that we had some really great people behind us and they stood up and spoke for us, which was fantastic. It was disturbing. They didn't know who I was and I didn't make it clear who I was or anything. But that kind of stuff shouldn't be at a football game anyway. I had my (daughter) there with me. It was very awkward. We were cheering because we got the try and we were just told to f . . . k off, and sit down, and go back to your own country. That really did upset my family and all of us who were there. I just think that in football it should be stopped, any sport really. Asked whether she had been called a monkey, Pritchard said: "Yeah, yeah, monkeys. To me it's very degrading. The most degrading thing was they looked at us straight away and they told us to go back to Centrelink, stop bludging off the dole. I was very upset about that. I just told my family to keep on looking at the park. The NRL's integrity unit is aware of the incident and is investigating as part of a wide review of the ugly scenes at the Sea Eagles' home ground during the game against the Bulldogs, including spectators spitting on Canterbury fullback Ben Barba. Pritchard's decision to break her silence came on the same day it emerged Canterbury centre Krisnan Inu had been the subject of racial abuse on social media. Inu asked for help in tracking down the culprit before posting a message in which he said: "Like The Lord said, turn the other cheek." Pritchard -- who attended a Canterbury luncheon yesterday where the issues of off-field behaviour and social media were discussed -- also wants to put the incident behind her, although she remains upset at the way she and her family, including Pritchard's father, were attacked. The family had planned to attend her cousin's 50th birthday at Manly Leagues Club this weekend but have changed their mind as a result of last week's incident. "We have had racism throughout our whole entire lives," Pritchard said. We know it's there and we know it happens. The people have hurt us by saying those things. When you start getting personal and looking at some people's skin, what colour they are, that's not on. It's not going to stop me going (to games) but I think I might stop going back to Manly. It's my cousin's 50th this Saturday at the Manly Leagues Club. I have had to ring up and say we can't come because if I have the whole family (there), and there is going to be some fans who are erratic, that's not going to be a good situation to put ourselves into. You can't help what people do. We can only control what we can do.