Dutch not dwelling on alleged racist chants at training session

NETHERLANDS coach Bert van Marwijk and captain Mark van Bommel last night refused to dwell on the racist abuse allegedly suffered by black members of the squad during a training session in Krakow.

Van Marwijk appeared keen to draw a line under the incident which apparently saw his players subjected to monkey chants at Wisla Krakow’s Miejski Stadium onWednesday.

He and Van Bommel – who branded the incident “a disgrace” – merely repeated what was already known, the former confirming he had not heard the alleged abuse and the latter reiterating he himself definitely had.