‘Brexit songs are out at Belgium match’

ENGLAND could be punished if fans chant pro-brexit songs during their World Cup game against Belgium.

Fifa confirmed to The Daily Telegraph that the Football Association would be sanctioned if supporters broke rules on “displaying insulting or political slogans in any form” and “uttering insulting words or sounds” at Thursday’s match.

The fixture in Kaliningrad is the first between England and Belgium since the UK voted to leave the European Union two years ago.

Given the EU’S seat of power is located in Brussels, the Belgian capital, the game could end up being seen as something of a “Brexit derby”. Many England fans were vocal about their voting intentions at the 2016 European Championship, chanting, “F--- off Europe, we’re all voting out”, during a series of riots in Marseille that led to the team being threatened with expulsion from the tournament by Uefa.

After the June 23 ballot, the song morphed into: “F--off Europe, we all voted out.”

There has been no evidence of the chant being repeated at the World Cup so far, but England are yet to play an EU nation.

England fans in Russia caused outrage last week after allegedly being recorded singing an anti-semitic song and performing Nazi salutes in a bar during the team’s opening World Cup match against Tunisia in Volgograd.