COLLY: DRASTIC WAY TO BEAT RACISTS

STAN COLLYMORE is calling for drastic action by England players to combat the unacceptable levels of racist abuse.

Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho were targeted after missing penalties in the Euros 2020 Final defeat by Italy.

Former Liverpool and England striker Collymore (right) said: “The only way we’re going to deal with the situation English football finds itself in with racism is by taking people’s toys away from them.

“I’m not talking social media boycotts – it needs to be bigger.

“Something like England’s players refusing to play in one of their World Cup qualifiers against Hungary, Andorra or Poland.

“Club allegiances will kick back in the second any of England’s black players do something against a rival team. They will be subjected to the sort of abuse they suffered this week. So I’d like to hear the FA come out and say, ‘Against Andorra at Wembley on September 5, the black players who represent England have decided they will not be making themselves available for the national team. And, on the back of it, neither will their white teammates’. Then we can decide whether to put out the Under-21s or forfeit the game.”

Germany’s Olympic football team walked off the pitch yesterday after Jordan Torunarigha, 23, was allegedly racially abused by a Honduras player.

The friendly – ahead of next week’s Tokyo Games – was abandoned at 1-1 after the 85th-minute incident.

Germany coach Stefan Kuntz said: “When one of our players is racially abused, playing on is not an option.”