(CNN)Some of England's players were reportedly racially abused by Hungary fans during the team's 4-0 World Cup qualifying triumph implicit Hungary.
ITV newsman Gabriel Clarke, who was astatine the stadium, says helium heard monkey chants directed astatine Raheem Sterling, arsenic good arsenic astatine substitute Jude Bellingham arsenic helium was preparing to travel on.
England's players had earlier been loudly booed arsenic they took a knee earlier footwear off, an ongoing motion to protestation racism.
Hungary had been ordered by UEFA, European football's governing body, to play its adjacent 3 location games down closed doors aft fans' discriminatory behaviour astatine Euro 2020, but this prohibition wasn't yet implemented arsenic World Cup qualifiers autumn nether FIFA's jurisdiction.
"First and foremost, FIFA powerfully rejects immoderate signifier of racism and unit and has a precise wide zero tolerance stance for specified behaviour successful football," FIFA said successful a connection to CNN.
"FIFA volition instrumentality capable actions arsenic soon arsenic it receives lucifer reports concerning yesterday's Hungary-England game.
"With regards to the erstwhile UEFA authorisation against Hungary, delight enactment that arsenic specified by UEFA astatine the time, this authorisation is to beryllium served successful UEFA competitions."
In a statement, the English Football Association (FA) said it was "extremely disappointing" to perceive reports of "discriminatory actions" directed towards immoderate of its players.
"We volition beryllium asking FIFA to analyse the matter," the connection read. "We proceed to enactment the players and unit successful our corporate determination to item and tackle favoritism successful each its forms."
The Hungarian Football Federation said successful a connection to CNN: "The immense bulk of the 60,000 fans contiguous successful the Puskás Aréna supported the teams successful a sporting manner, cheering connected the Hungarian nationalist squad adjacent erstwhile the squad was already losing. It is successful their defence that the number of disruptive ticket-holders request to beryllium identified and severely punished.
"Fans entering the tract of play, throwing flares and integrative cups are successful the process of being identified. The MLSZ has already filed oregon volition record constabulary reports against them and volition walk connected immoderate fiscal penalties to the perpetrators done civilian litigation. Furthermore, astatine the extremity of proceedings, those recovered blameworthy tin expect a two-year prohibition from each sporting events.
"The Hungarian Federation and the players, caput manager each made an highly beardown connection run earlier the crippled to telephone supporters to debar each benignant of racist, xenophobic behaviors during each matches of the nationalist team."
England's players besides had cups and bottles thrown astatine them during each of the extremity celebrations -- with Declan Rice and Jack Grealish amusingly pretending to portion retired of them -- portion a flare was thrown onto the transportation arsenic the squad celebrated Harry Maguire's goal.
After the game, England guardant Marcus Rashford, who is presently retired pursuing enarthrosis surgery, took to societal media successful enactment of his teammates.
"My brothers. Every azygous 1 of them. Proud of you boys," helium tweeted.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who antecedently failed to condemn fans who booed England's players portion they took the knee, tweeted: "It is wholly unacceptable that England players were racially abused successful Hungary past night.
"I impulse FIFA to instrumentality beardown enactment against those liable to guarantee that this benignant of disgraceful behaviour is eradicated from the crippled for good."
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