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Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp have led a number of Premier League leaders by saying that they would be willing to take their players off the field to fight racist abuse.
Manchester City President Guardiola believes that racism "is getting worse" in Europe.
Klopp, of Liverpool, believes that football "must do everything" to fight against racism, while Tottenham's director, Mauricio Pochettino, said that "nobody deserves to be the victim of abuse".
"If this happens, I am the first to say," Stop, we will not play ".
Spurs defender Danny Rose was among the English players who said they heard monkey songs in Britain's 5-1 win over Montenegro on Monday.
Pochettino added, "There is nothing more important in this life than to protect values and principles, and no one can abuse them, the most important thing is that you can not feel to someone and treat it that way. "
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock said the punishment should be tougher than today, suggesting that teams whose fans were responsible for racist scandals could be ruled out of a tournament, while that Maurizio Sarri de Chelsea suggests a 10-minute break in the first instance.
Raheem was right to express himself – Guardiola
The question of how football should fight against racism was one of the main topics of discussion, as leaders of the Premier League faced the media before this weekend's matches.
This comes after English players – including City players Raheem Sterling, Callum Hudson-Odoi Chelsea and Rose Tottenham – were targeted in the Euro 2020 qualifier in Montenegro.
After Sterling scored England's fifth goal in the 5-1 victory, he celebrated the victory by putting his hands in his ear and then declaring that the move was a response to racist abuse.
England manager Gareth Southgate said he had heard of the abuse inflicted on his players and that the incidents were reported to UEFA, which accused Montenegro of racist behavior.
"The situation only changes when you do something – when you do nothing, it does not change," said Guardiola, 48.
"That's why, when people like Raheem said what he did, it was better for our society."
"Football is a powerful weapon to defend the principles of humanity," he added.
Napoli director Carlo Ancelotti said his team has asked three times that his match at Inter Milan in January be suspended due to alleged racist chants.
In January 2013, AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng triggered a setback due to racist chants during a friendly match between his team and Pro Patria, the Italian lower division club.
"The deterrent must be much worse"
The Italian Sarri, who opposed Chelsea supporters accused of abusing Sterling in December, said that a rule allowing the interruption of a match must be introduced throughout the sport.
"In all countries, there are stupid people, I think, so it's a big problem, I think we need to do something different," said 60-year-old Sarri.
"It's probably just to stop the game for 10 minutes at the first situation."
Klopp said that he would have no qualms about removing his players from the field depending on the seriousness of the situation.
"What I could do, I would do it … We have to stop the matches, we have to do everything," said the 51 – year – old German.
"If that's all the stand, I would do it 100%." But it's too much power for one or two idiots or three or four idiots.
"If I take out the players and someone says," It was not that bad, "you lose the game.Our job is to win football games.
"But if everyone would do it, then it's completely different."
The Englishman Warnock stated that he would not hesitate to act himself if match officials had been informed of racially motivated violence against players but were not allowed to do so. had not been followed.
"I would take a team if it happened, the referee was informed and did nothing about it," said the 70-year-old.
"It must be harsher than a fine or a slap on the fingers.The deterrent must be much worse than it is."
Fines are not enough – Jenas
Jermaine Jenas, former English midfielder, would have little impact and would only serve to punish fans who are not involved in racist singing.
Jenas, 36, believes that teams whose fans racially abuse players should be banned from UEFA competitions or benefit from point deductions.
"The majority of people who go to games are good people, kids, who just want to watch a football match," he told Friday Football Social, broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.
"I'm not 100% sure that they should suffer.
"All this behind closed doors does not really work for me and the fines do not do enough, we have to start hitting people where it really hurts."
"It's been going on for too long, we're talking about a topic we were talking about in the 1980s, 2019, and we're still suffering from the same thing."
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