FILE PHOTO: Football Soccer - England Training - Tottenham Hotspur Training Ground, Hertfordshire - 28/3/16 England coach Gary Neville during training Action Images via Reuters / Andrew Couldridge Livepic
(Reuters) - Former England international Gary Neville says words are not enough to combat racism in football and that he is "ashamed" he did not fight harder against it when he was a player.
The former Manchester United defender made the comments in the wake of the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.
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