The Football Association celebrated the rise in the number of reported incidents of discrimination since the start of the football season yesterday, but Kick It Out took a different stance.

The FA have seen an increase of 70 per cent while the anti-discrimination group’s numbers have risen by more than a third.

FA head of judicial services Mark Ives said that the rise is more to do with people being confident enough to report the abuse, rather than an increase in the number of incidents.