Backlash over Blatter comments on racism

FIFA president Sepp Blatter tonight provoked a furious backlash after claiming racist abuse between players on the pitch should be settled by a handshake.

On a day when the Football Association charged Liverpool’s Luis Suarez with racially abusing Manchester United’s Patrice Evra, and with a racism investigation against John Terry still going on, in two television interviews Blatter said racism on the field of play is not a problem.