Manchester City Football Development Executive Patrick Vieira has called for tougher penalties to combat racism in football.
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The former Arsenal captain wants to see harsher measures imposed such as points deductions for clubs or even banning those culpable from said competition.
"If you really want to fight racism, if you really want to show to the world that football wants to fight against it, you will have to use a deduction of points against clubs or kick them out of competition," said the 36-year-old Frenchman.
"That will stop it, of course. If you kick a club out of Europe because they couldn't control their fans, it will happen once and I will guarantee it's not going to happen twice.
"If nothing is done, the situation will get worse and worse and you never know where things will go.
"Before we get to a place where you can't control it anymore, you have to stop it straight away and the only way you can stop it is to have clear, strong punishments.
"Of course, we all need a second chance, we all need to realise that we are doing something wrong, but if you do it again the punishments should be really hard."
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