Uefa announce Spartak Moscow Under-19 captain Leonid Mironov will NOT face punishment for allegedly racially abusing Liverpool ace Rhian Brewster
Abigail Rogers
Updated on March 22, 2026
UEFA have announced Spartak Moscow's Under-19 captain will NOT face punishment for allegedly racially abusing Liverpool ace Rhian Brewster.
Leonid Mironov will not face action, despite the England Under-17 star's incredible accusation - after Uefa spent three months investigating.
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Uefa revealed they appreciate the allegation was made in good faith but no further action will be taken.
Brewster - who scored eight goals including two hat-tricks as England won the World Cup last October revealed: “I got fouled.
"I was on the floor and I had the ball in my hands. One of their players started saying stuff in Russian to the ref.
"I said: ‘It’s a foul, man, what you playing at?’ I was still sitting down at this stage.
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“Then their player leaned over me, right down to my face and said: ‘Suck my d**k, you n****r, you n***o.’
“I jumped to my feet and the ref came running over because obviously he realised something had been said.
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"He [the ref] said to me he couldn’t do anything because he hadn’t heard it and ‘the only thing I can do is report it’.
“I said: ‘Come on, then – let’s go and report it.’
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“I told Steven [Gerrard] what had happened and we made a complaint there.”
Liverpool wonderkid Brewster says he has witnessed or been the victim of racial abuse on the pitch SEVEN times in his short career already.
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On speaking to Uefa about the incident, he added: “I didn’t even want to put in a complaint. ‘Nothing’s going to happen,’ that was my attitude.
“I was walking down the tunnel after the match and I was just swearing – ‘F**k the system, it’s not going to do anything’, stuff like that.
“Obviously you have to do it [make a complaint]. But if something is ever done about it, that’s another story.”