The Football Association will this week make contact with Roberto Firmino and Mason Holgate after the Everton player complained that he was racially abused by the Liverpool striker during Friday night’s FA Cup clash at Anfield.
As the FA confirmed on Saturday, referee Bobby Madley ‘was made aware of an allegation’ during the clash and ‘has subsequently reported this’ to the governing body, ‘which will now begin making enquiries into the matter’.
The FA will now interview both the players and the officials, although if the officials had heard Firmino use words of a racist nature it would have surely led to his dismissal.