Gareth Southgate has admitted he could face “another layer of difficulty” when it comes to choosing penalty takers over fears they could suffer racist abuse.
Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho were all subjected to vile online taunts after missing in the Euros final shoot-out last summer. Southgate admitted he was wracked with guilt afterwards about putting the players in that position but says it would not be right to pick penalty takers based on the colour of their skin.
When it was put to Southgate, the England boss said: “I have to say it never crossed my mind before. We’ve got 55 years of talking about penalties and everything else. So we’ve now got another layer that’s going to make it extremely difficult for us to win anything.
