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FA chief Greg Clarke wants players to be able to leave the pitch if one fan racially abuses them and says current rules are no longer good enough UEFA threshold says racism has to be of a 'strong magnitude and intensity' Greg Clarke believes abuse from one fan at a throw or corner should be enough  Clarke added English game is still failing to deal with racist incidents correctly 

By Ian Herbert For The Daily Mail

Published: 15:07 BST, 2 April 2019 | Updated: 21:32 BST, 2 April 2019

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FA chairman Greg Clarke has admitted that football is still failing to protect British players against racism by leaving them to report abuse and investigating too few incidents.

Eight days after Raheem Sterling, Danny Rose and Callum Hudson-Odoi were racially abused in Montenegro, Clarke also said that UEFA's threshold for referees taking players from the field — the racism must be of a 'strong magnitude and intensity' — was no longer good enough. Clarke suggested that abuse from one fan at a throw-in or corner should be enough.

With UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin also calling on Tuesday for 'brave' action from referees, the prospect of this course of action seems increasingly likely. Clarke admitted that his own organisation had 'learned the hard way' how to handle racism. 

Greg Clarke wants players to be able to leave the pitch if one fan racially abuses them

He was severely censured by a House of Commons select committee in October 2017 over the treatment of Eniola Aluko, whose complaints of racism against then-England manager Mark Sampson were not dealt with properly. But he said that clubs and leagues must do more — using cameras and foreign-language lip-readers if necessary, to investigate every single complaint that is lodged — even if it is 'the

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