England's FA have will now make an official complaint to UEFA after the which could see punishments applied to the German team.
An FA spokesman confirmed yesterday, “Two of our players have complained of racial abuse from German players.
”We have raised that with the UEFA delegate after the game and will be formally communicating with UEFA in the next couple of days.”
Ferdinand himself refused to elaborate on the alleged incident but TV cameras did spot Ferdinand visibly disturbed after a verbal exchange with a German player. “It's in the hands of the FA and I don't want to say anything about it at this stage.” said Anton.