Raheem Sterling calls for stadium bans after racist violence | Football News

Reports of racist abuse against Danny Rose jeopardize Britain's 5-1 victory in Montenegro

Raheem Sterling has suggested that racist abuses should be punished by teams playing behind closed doors after chanting Britain's 5-1 victory in Montenegro.

England continued its qualifying campaign at Euro 2020 with another emphatic victory – three days after scoring five unanswered goals against the Czech Republic – but the performance was tainted with abuse by the part of the visitors.

England manager Gareth Southgate said he had heard of Rose being mistreated, while Sterling called for tougher penalties for abuse, wondering what impact the fines had.

Rob Dorsett of Sky Sports News asked him if there was any justification for a stadium ban or for teams playing behind closed doors. So he said, "Yes, it's something serious for them, to make them think twice before doing it again."

He said earlier: "It's now time for officials to direct the draw because you can fine someone, but what will he do?"

"You have to make things harder – you have to punish all the fans so that they can not attend the matches, you have to do something that will really make them think twice. do not play with the fans, it will be difficult for them and make them think twice.

"I can only, we can only, the FA can only do a lot, we have to leave that to the leaders to take a position appropriately, just to ban one or two people will not change anything, even to our fans, I would say exactly the same thing. "

Although Sterling said he had not heard of the badault personally, Southgate said he heard the Tottenham Rose defender mistreated after a 93rd minute booking. Callum Hudson-Odoi also insisted that he hear monkey singing from local supporters.

Sterling celebrated his late goal by plugging his ears, and said the message was that it would not be enough to abuse the players.

Sterling said: "To be honest with you, I did not hear it personally, but Danny made it clear that it was what they were doing, I just wanted to show them that you're going to have need more than that to get angry and stop us because what can I do?

"We know, we all know what skin color we are, so I do not know what the problem is, it's not like you're telling us something new."

"It's not just a young black man, it's young children growing up in various cities.It's not just the black kids that I want to reach.In England we have a diverse country and we live in 2019, as I always say, different phases in our country and raise awareness so that people know that these are new times, it's different. "

Hudson-Odoi: It's unacceptable

Hudson-Odoi, who made his first start to England on Monday at just 18, also said on to be sporty: "This is not correct, it's unacceptable." When I went there, Rosey and I heard that they were saying, "Ooh, ahh, ahh ", it's a monkey story.

"We just have to keep our heads, keep a strong mentality, I hope Rosey is fine too, and if anything has cost us, we'll discuss and discuss what happened."

"It's not ok at all … I enjoyed the game too, but hearing things like that is never correct, but as I said, you have to have a strong mentality. "

Southgate: We will press for sanctions

"It is not acceptable that he is always in the game, but it is not acceptable that it is always in the society.

"We are far from home, but I have already said, we are not clear on this problem at home and we have to make sure that our players are supported, we have to put some order in we at home and we will push for the right sanctions here. "