Jurgen Klopp admits he would lead a walk-off if Liverpool’s players were racially abused.
The subject of racism in football has resurfaced after England’s players were targeted during their Euro 2020 qualifying win over Montenegro in midweek.
Harry Kane, who faces the Reds on Sunday with Tottenham, has vowed to remove his Three Lions teammates from the situation in the event of a repeat.
And the Liverpool manager echoed the Spurs talisman’s view as well as reaffirming his own feelings on the subject of racism in football.
“I don’t know what to say about that really because it’s absolutely disappointing that at this moment in our world something like this is still possible,” said Klopp.
“It’s so frustrating, I can’t believe.
“I watched the England game but without sound so I was surprised when Hendo (Jordan Henderson) got a yellow card, when [Danny] Rose got a yellow card, when Raheem [Sterling] celebrated in front of the crowd.
“When I heard afterwards, it all made sense.
“It’s not allowed to ignore it, we have to put the finger in, we have to speak loud about it, we have to finish it finally that people are not allowed [to do it].
“Maybe some guys are shouting and think it’s funny. It’s not funny.
“It’s very difficult for me to really feel the situation of Raheem or Rose or other players, of our players who face something like that, because I never had a situation like that.
“Whatever I could do, I would do. We have to stop games, we have to do everything.”
He added: “It’s really difficult for me to hear things like that in the stadium or see it in the moment if it’s one guy or two guys or whatever.
“If it’s the whole stand, then I would do it – 100 per cent. But that’s too much power for one or two idiots, or three or four idiots.
“We have to find ways to punish these guys, to get them out. Everybody knows who it was.
“We had it with the German national team with Leroy Sane, Ilkay Gundogan, it was really big and in the end they came to the police station themselves.
“You have to know, if you do it – how it is in life, you can always make a mistake – then you get the punishment.
“For them, I don’t know what the punishment would be but it’s not that the coaches should do that, match officials [should].
“If I take the players off and somebody says, ‘It was not that serious’, you lose the game. Our job is to win football games.
“But if the whole stand would do it then it is completely different.”