The Italian football association (FIGC) has told players not to follow the lead of Kevin-Prince Boateng and walk off the pitch if they are subjected to racist abuse.

A senior figure at the Italian Football Federation has dismissed Serbia’s demands to replay the Euro 2012 qualifier abandoned due to crowd disorder last week.

Sven-Goran Eriksson is not about to quit as England coach, with the Swede‘s agent and the Football Association uniting to claim it was “business as usual” at Soho Square.