International Football

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During each and every minute of the match, until the mentioned last one, sports atmosphere full of respecting fair-play spirit was at the pitch and the stands, from warming up of both of the teams, through national anthems and applauses of all the present when the English anthem finished.

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And while most of the English team players celebrated the score, their player number 3, Danny Rose, behaved in inappropriate, unsportsmanlike and vulgar manner towards the supporters on the stands at the stadium in Kruševac, and for that he was shown a red card.

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Furthermore, we will not either accept the fact that our players and members of the technical staff were provoked by the gesture of the English player Rose, since violence has no place at sports events. To be honest, we expect the same investigation from the English FA.

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FA of Serbia absolutely refuses and denies that there were any occurrences of racism before and during the match at the stadium in Kruševac. Making connection between the seen incident - a fight between members of the two teams - and racism has absolutely no ground and we consider it to be a total malevolence.

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we expect that human and sports culture of our football friends from England will win over misinformation spread.

Wow...

If FIFA/UEFA find any evidence of racism throughout the game (which shouldn't be hard...) then surely there must be strict bans imposed on the country in all forms of international football until they iradicate the problem - if they want to send out a tough stance of racism.

My opinion is the same with Millwall fans, who are continually allowed to get away with this backwards bullshit, preach about a zero tolerance policy, and then when go into 'we're scapegoats' denial mode. It's obvious from that statement that Serbia have absolutely zero desire to clean up racism which starts at the top and the lack of accountability will filter down to their fans, their policing, their players/staff etc. and shouldn't really be surprising.

Until they are willing to adhere to FIFA's racism standards and are willing to educate the fans coming through the turnstiles, they shouldn't be allowed to compete in any form of international football, that goes for any nation found guilty of repeated racism.

Zaha called up. Fair play. He's done well, although I think the media have helped get him there...personally think Tom Ince is better. And from a biased point of view, I'd obviously like to see Eagles in if we're dipping into the Chumpionship.

Thought England played well on the whole. Whilst I'm not convinced that Brazil's defensive prowess is anything like some of the better European sides, if Walcott and Wilshere can put in performances like that on a regular basis, England have enough ammunition to at least cause the top sides some problems, which for me, in the past they've not been able to. We've always looked a little one paced/one dimensional against the very top sides and it's just a matter of time before we get picked off, I sense that there is a little more spark and creativity in this England side even if it's still quite raw.

Thought England looked fairly solid defensively too, other than one brain fart from Cahill, I thought they dealt with most of Brazil's threats before they got too much of a clear sniff (other than that close range effort that Neymar ballooned over). Smalling was very consistent and Cahill/Johnson combined well to keep Neymar quiet.