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Danny Rose says racism will continue to be a problem in football as long as offending countries are fined small amounts

by April 5th, 2019

Danny Rose says racism will continue to be a problem in football as long as offending countries are fined what he would spend on a night out — and he can’t wait to see the back of the game.

The Tottenham left-back was among the England players targeted with chants by a section of home fans during the 5-1 Euro 2020 qualifying victory in Podgorica on March 25, and UEFA have since charged Montengro with racist behaviour.

“I’d sort of prepared myself anyway for what happened,” Rose said. “Had we not been winning, the yellow card I got at the end might have been a red one, but I’m fine.

“It didn’t affect my game. I’m a big boy now. I know three points isn’t the most important thing when you’re going through things like that, but I just wanted the team to get three points, to move on and get out of Montenegro as quickly as possible.

“Obviously it’s sad [to have to prepare yourself for that] but when countries only get fined what I probably spend on a night out in London then what do you expect?

“You see my manager [Mauricio Pochettino] get banned for two games for just being confrontational against Mike Dean at Burnley. Yet a country can only get fined a little bit of money for being racist. It’s just a bit of a farce at the minute.

“That’s where we’re at now in football and until there’s a harsh punishment there’s not much else we can expect I don’t think.

Rose decided not to speak to the media immediately after the match in Podgorica but said: “I have to say it was a very small minority out of the fans that were doing the chants so I didn’t want the postmatch to be about me.

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