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​Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger: Spurs fans have sent supportive messages

Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger has called on authorities to locate the supporters who racially abused him at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday.

The Germany international was allegedly targeted by racist chants during the Blues' 2-0 win over Spurs.

And in a thread of Twitter posted after the game, Rudiger urged authorities to do more to prevent such incidents from reoccurring by punishing the offenders.

"It is really sad to see racism again at a football match, but I think it's very important to talk about it in public. If not, it will be forgotten again in a couple of days (as always)," Rudiger tweeted in a thread.

"I don't want to involve Tottenham as an entire club into this situation as I know that just a couple of idiots were the offenders. I got a lot of supportive messages on social media from Spurs fans as well in the last hours - thank you a lot for this.

"I really hope that the offenders will be found and punished soon, and in such a modern football ground like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with dozens of TV and security cameras, it must be possible to find and subsequently punish them.

"If not, then there must have been witnesses in the stadium who saw and heard the incident. It's just such a shame that racism still exists in 2019. When will this nonsense stop?"

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