Fearsome: A shot of a scene inside the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv

'We’re going into this tournament in every way very positively.'

Bernstein also revealed he has not briefed the England players on what to do should they suffer racial abuse, saying they will deal with the situation should it arise.

'We’ll take things as they come,' he added. 'We don’t stop just start looking for problems - that’s easy to to do.

'You get some sensational stuff as well around this.

'We know there are some underlying issues but hopefully it will stay underlying and we won’t be faced with these things.

'We have planned very carefully for what might happen but we sincerely hope it won’t.'

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