WALES captain Gareth Bale said on Saturday that he would support his players walking off the pitch in the face of racial abuse and called for repeat offenders to be kicked out of international football.

Bale scored a hat-trick and led Wales to victory in a World Cup qualifier against Belarus on Sunday, just days after England players Jude Bellingham and Raheem Sterling were racially abused and targeted with monkey chants in Hungary.

Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings in relation to England’s World Cup qualifier in Budapest on Thursday, with Borussia Dortmund midfielder Bellingham calling for “proper punishments.”