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    UEFA approve plans for refs to act on racism

    Reuters

    Thursday, July 2, 2009

    UEFA on Thursday approved new guidelines for match officials to deal with racist chants or other behaviour in stadiums which includes stopping the game. The new rules would allow the referee to first stop a match and issue a warning over the public address system requesting that the racist behaviour cease. If this did not work, he could suspend the game for 5 to 10 minutes. "As a third and final step, if the racist behaviour does not cease after the game has restarted, the referee shall as a l ...

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