ENGLAND youth star Rhian Brewster has revealed the disgusting racial abuse he suffered at the hands of a Russian player.
The Liverpool U17 striker accused Spartak defender Leonid Mironov of screaming: “Suck my d**k, you n****r, you n***0”.
European football’s governing body charged Mironov with racist behaviour, which he denies, that occurred during a UEFA Youth League group stage clash at Prenton Park on December 6.
Brewster said: “I got fouled. I was on the floor and I had the ball in my hands.
“One of their players started saying stuff in Russian to the ref. I said: ‘It’s a foul, man, what you playing at?’ I was still sitting down at this stage.
“Then their player leaned over me, right down to my face and said: ‘Suck my d**k, you n****r, you n***o.’
“I jumped to my feet and the ref came running over because obviously he realised something had been said.
“He [the ref] said to me he couldn’t do anything because he hadn’t heard it and ‘the only thing I can do is report it’.
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“I said: ‘Come on, then – let’s go and report it.’ He started doing something else and I said: ‘No, now.’ We went over to the fourth official and told him.
“I told Steven [Gerrard] what had happened and we made a complaint there.”
Under-17 World Cup winner Brewster says he has witnessed or been the victim of racial abuse on the pitch SEVEN times in his short career.
And he has questioned UEFA’s desire to tackle racism in football head-on.
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he added: “I didn’t even want to put in a complaint. ‘Nothing’s going to happen,’ that was my attitude.
“I was walking down the tunnel after the match and I was just swearing – ‘F**k the system, it’s not going to do anything’, stuff like that.
“Obviously you have to do it [make a complaint]. But if something is ever done about it, that’s another story.”
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