UEFA President Michel Platini has provided support for Sunderland’s Danny Rose condemning the scenes at Krusevac during the England U21 game against Serbia as ‘disgraceful’.
Rose was subjected to racial abuse during and after England U21s’ 1-0 victory over their Serbian opposition in last Tuesday’s clash.
The British minister of sport Hugh Robertson wrote to Platini personally to express his disappointment and alarm in the aftermath of the match.
General Secretary of the FA, Alex Horne, revealed that the Frenchman provided a swift response of clear support.
He told the Shields Gazette: “Michel Platini has written back and said in unequivocal terms that they were disgraceful scenes that we shouldn’t be seeing on a football pitch.”
The Serbian FA have released footage since the event insisting that no unsportsmanlike or racially provocative behaviour towards the players occurred during the match.
Horne rebuked these claims countering that, “That’s not what I have seen on the video clips and it’s not what I have heard from eyewitness reports.
“What the players went through out there is abhorrent.”
The on-loan Sunderland full back is just looking to put the incident behind him after relishing his first taste of the Tyne-Wear Derby at the Stadium of Light last Sunday.
He was also full of praise for supporters, telling the Shields Gazette, “I’m not just saying this because I’m at Sunderland now, but that was the best atmosphere I’ve ever experienced. It’s a cliché in football but the fans really were the 12th man and they helped us over the finish line.”
Next up for Rose and Sunderland is a Premier League trip to the Britannia stadium to face Stoke City.
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