London, Oct 7 (ANI): Bulgaria has rejected accusations from Europe's football governing body Uefa that home fans fired racist abuse at England players during a Euro 2012 qualifier last month.
"Do they see themselves as blessed? It is their fifth Uefa claim for racism. We will prepare our defence well because we are convinced there was no such thing," Bulgaria's football federation head Borislav Mihaylov told reporters.
Uefa has already opened disciplinary proceedings against Bulgaria over the September 2 match in Sofia and Uefa's disciplinary committee is due to hear the case on October 13.
Several of England's black players were subjected to monkey noises throughout their team's 3-0 win at the Vasil Levski Stadium, prompting English officials to complain to their Bulgarian counterparts after the match.
England's Wayne Rooney and Theo Walcott said they had been aware of the abuse, The Telegraph reports.
England captain John Terry said he was shocked by what he heard. "You don't expect that at all," he said.
There were also accusations that Bulgarian supporters were making Nazi salutes during the match in front of the 3,000 travelling England supporters, the paper reports.
Bulgaria's national coach at the time, German Lothar Matthaeus, apologised after the match. (ANI)
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