Britain needs to act swiftly to crush any return of racism in football, after several high-profile cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday, Feb 22.

Cameron said Britain should be proud of the achievements of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, adding that other countries had failed to take similar action.

“But we have some problems still today,” Cameron said at the opening of an anti-discrimination summit with former players and football officials. “We need to act quickly to make sure those problems do not creep back in.

“If everyone plays their role, then we can easily crush and deal with this problem. We want to make sure football is all about a power to do good, rather than anything else.”

Cameron said he often took his young son to local football matches and had seen how bad behavior on the pitch could influence children and other spectators.

England international John Terry has been stripped of the captaincy pending his trial in July on charges of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand. Terry denies the charges, Reuters reported.