Gary Southgate and Harry Kane are keen to keep the focus on Monday Qualifier in Bulgaria — but state the England team has a plan for how to react if there is any racist misuse in Sofia.
The match in the Vasil Levski stadium is going to be played with a stadium ban as a punishment from UEFA for incidents when Bulgaria hosted Kosovo and seen with the Czech Republic – both in June.
Bulgaria manager Krasimir Balakov ahead of the match said that English football has a problem with racism – dismissing the idea it was a problem in his country.
Southgate, thoughhe refused to be drawn on his counterparts words, appearing to be concerned about the welfare of his players and the match itself.
Well I say the exact same as I said the other night in Prague, said Southgate.
We are guests in another state and Ive always said weve got as many problems in own country to solve than everywhere else.
Everybody wants us to discuss soccer, for the players and the two teams exactly the same.
We needed to prepare our players for exactly whatever occurred in Montenegro, so that has been a process that we needed to go through before our next out fixtures.
Outside of that, we expect that the government to be certain everything is set up and everybody involved with the sport from both nations is needing to talk about the match.
Since they sat side-by-side at the Sunday press conference, kane mirrored the words of his manager.
The most important issue is were all fully centered on the game tomorrow night, getting the three points and putting us in a wonderful position, said Kane.
We had a meeting at the beginning of the week things that could happen but they may not occur. Theres clearly a protocol in place that UEFA have set.
From my point of view along with the players point of view, we are here to do a job on the soccer pitch and we do not need to cross that bridge.
We will see what happens however our whole focus is really all on the game
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