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Gareth Southgate, Rio Ferdinand and Keir Starmer slam 'unacceptable' racist abuse aimed at England's black players by Hungary's football thugs

Gareth Southgate, Rio Ferdinand and Keir Starmer have led criticism of Hungary fans for their 'unacceptable' racist abuse of England's black players at last night's World Cup qualifier.

Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham were subjected to vile monkey chants during the game while Sterling was also pelted with plastic cups after opening the scoring.

England boss Gareth Southgate said: 'It's not acceptable. We have taken our stance, took the knee, right thing, I don't think the group of players that we've had could be doing anything more for that cause.'

The Labour Party leader tweeted: 'Another dominant England performance and a great result.