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Romelu Lukaku discusses racism in football and how to stop it

Romelu Lukaku said the English players should have left the field against Montenegro "to make a statement" against racism.

English players were chanted by monkeys and other racist attacks during the European qualifying match in Podgorica last month, described by UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin as a "catastrophe".

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Montenegro was later charged with racist conduct by UEFA after the match and faces a partial closure of the stadium.

Harry Kane, the English captain, said the next time he would hear about racist abuse, he will pull his team off the field, but Lukaku believes that they should have done so at that time. the.

When asked about the incident, Lukaku said Sky Sports News: "England should have gone, I think, personally.

"To make a statement I saw it happen in countries and then the team was doomed and that sort of thing, for some players it gives us an advantage but other players can overreact, then you make a mistake A man at sea.

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"It's something that we, the players, have to defend and argue, so the best-placed people act, something that should be sorted and sorted out, because football is a multicultural game.

"We do a lot of things for a lot of people, so let's not forget the problem of racism, I hope we can fix it, it's going to take time."

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