Spartak Moscow charged by Uefa over racist chanting aimed at a Liverpool player

SPARTAK MOSCOW have been charged over racist chanting aimed at a Liverpool player.
Reds youngster Bobby Adekanye was the target of Spartak fans during a 2-1 defeat in the UEFA Youth League competition for under-19 teams last month in Moscow.

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Adekanye was targeted with monkey chants and other abuse through the game in Europe's top youth tournament.

Liverpool raised a complaint, and the incidents are also understood to have been part of the report from the Uefa match delegate on duty.
Uefa confirmed it had opened disciplinary proceedings against Spartak, whose supporters are notorious for bigotry.
The club was fined £3,000 by the Russian authorities in July after fans racially abused Guilherme, the Brazilian goalkeeper for city rivals Lokomotiv, in the opening match of the new season.

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And Spartak - Russia's biggest club - have already found themselves in big trouble with the governing body for a string of crowd disturbances this season.

Their opening Champions League match against Maribor was marred by major problems with the travelling support outside and inside the stadium.

And things took a turn for the worse during the match when one fan fired a flare gun at the referee, only just missing the official.

Uefa fined the club and banned them from having any travelling fans for their next away Champions league fixture.

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But the club found itself in more trouble just a fortnight later when they faced Liverpool, with supporters unfurling a huge banner in a defiant message to Uefa.

Spartak have been hit with three disciplinary charges from that match - and now face yet more scrutiny for the incidents in the youth team game.

Uefa’s control, ethics and disciplinary body will deal with the Liverpool case on October 19.

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