Chelsea youngster Callum Hudson-Odoi says his senior England team-mates would have been right to walk off the pitch following racist abuse from Bulgarian supporters.
England's 6-0 Euro 2020 qualifying win over Bulgaria in Sofia was stopped twice due to racist abuse directed at England players from the stands.
Four Bulgarian supporters have since been arrested and the head of their Football Association, Borislav Mihaylov, has resigned his post.
Hudson-Odoi's full England debut, made against Montenegro in March, was also marred by racist abuse and intensified calls for the players to walk off the pitch should it occur.
Gareth Southgate's players decided, as a group, to play on in Sofia, and Hudson-Odoi praised them for their handling of the situation - but added that they would have been right to walk off, so long as it was a collective decision.
"It is disgusting to hear or see players getting discriminated against," Hudson-Odoi said. "It is not right. I say to myself, whenever that happens you have got to stick together as a team which the boys did.
"I am really proud to see the boys stick together and in those situations where they say they would walk off the pitch, it is right because no player should be treated differently. We are all equal.
"It is an equal game so we have all got to stay strong, stay the same and the boys dealt with it well.
"Hopefully everything will be sorted properly by Uefa. Everything that happened was obviously not right but we have to stick together as a team and move on from it."
