Police are investigating a report of racial abuse throughout Millwall's Championship sport towards Swansea Metropolis on Tuesday.
The match was paused through the second-half whereas referee Edward Duckworth had prolonged discussions with each units of coaches.
An announcement was made on the stadium audio system at The Den confirming there had been alleged chants of racism and that police had been working to determine any offenders utilizing CCTV.
Swans head coach Vitor Matos mentioned after the match the alleged chants had been aimed toward South Korea winger Ji-sung Eom.
The Metropolitan Police mentioned in a press release: "Officers swiftly engaged with witnesses to assemble statements. No arrests have been made and enquiries stay ongoing."
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Eom was among the many Swansea substitutes warming up alongside the pitch when the sport was dropped at a halt through the second half.
"The referee adopted the protocol for these kind of conditions, they did the appropriate factor. Millwall additionally did the appropriate factor to get the protocol transferring on," mentioned Matos.
"Everyone knows there isn’t a house for this. This type of state of affairs mustn’t occur.
"Once they do occur we’re right here to face with the participant, on this case it’s our participant."
The incident marred what was in any other case a night of celebration for the Swans, as n for the league leaders.
Millwall acknowledged they had been conscious of an alleged, particular person incident of discriminatory abuse in direction of a Swansea Metropolis participant and was supporting the police investigation.
"The membership operates a zero-tolerance coverage in direction of any type of discriminatory abuse," it added.
"Any particular person discovered to have engaged in such behaviour will face the strongest attainable motion."
Millwall supervisor Alex Neil acknowledged the necessity to take care of the incident however questioned the size of the stoppage.
"I perceive there's been an incident. It's not one thing I'm going to get entangled in. That'll be for the authorities to take care of," Neil advised BBC Radio London.
"However the truth that it stops the sport for quarter-hour, I simply don't see the purpose. It must get handled, completely, however stopping the sport doesn't take care of something. All it does is kill the momentum."
Victory stored Swansea two factors clear on the prime of the Championship, with the Welsh membership placing collectively their finest begin to a season in a century.
Matos mentioned he was saddened by the abuse aimed toward Eom, however added the squad will rally round their team-mate.
"He is a brilliant child, he isn’t proud of the state of affairs however he is aware of we’ll stick with him and comply with the state of affairs so long as we are able to," added Matos.
"Millwall did the appropriate factor by asserting there isn’t a place for this kind of factor.
"I'm proud of the way it was dealt with, however actually unhappy that it occurred. Now it’s about evaluating the state of affairs and we'll see what occurs."
