Damning new evidence passed to the Sunday Mirror shows how the player was subjected to disgraceful monkey chants for almost two minutes at the end of last week’s U21 international.
The shocking scenes were captured in a video taken on a mobile phone by a Serbian supporter sitting in a stand overlooking the tunnel.
We had the vile abuse heaped on Rose translated by a Serb journalist and in the footage several home supporters can he heard screaming: “Get him, kill him.”
The Serbian FA has tried to distance itself from accusations of racism by saying there were no incidents before or during the game.
But our footage will leave officials there under pressure to apologise.
The scenes after last Tuesday’s match have sent shockwaves through world football. Rose, 22, was shown a red card for kicking a ball into the crowd out of fury at the abuse he’d received from the stands.
It sparked a brawl between players, coaches and backroom staff from both teams. But the reaction of the Serbs in the aftermath of the incident has caused even more outrage.
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Their refusal to face up to the obvious racial abuse has seen
football’s image kicked further into the gutter. Serbia has very few
black people and just NINE black players out of 816 are registered with
the country’s two professional leagues. This means just one per cent of
pro footballers in Serbia are black.
FifPro – the
international association of professional footballers – is so concerned
about last week’s incident it has launched a probe into football racism
across the globe.
Yesterday FifPro’s Tony Higgins said: “There
needs to be stronger punishment and we need to see an undertaking from
countries to educate fans and make the changes.”
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