Fifa ready to ban racist clubs

Fifa's president Sepp Blatter has called for stronger action to be taken against the kind of racist abuse allegedly directed at the Manchester City midfielder Yaya Touré in Wednesday's Champions' League match at CSKA Moscow.

Blatter said fines and stadium closures were not adequate punishment, and that it was time to start deducting points or even ejecting teams from tournaments.

"It is no sanction if you give financial sanctions because if you give [a fine of] £100,000 you'll always find money in professional football," he said when speaking at the Oxford Union on Friday night.

"And if you play without spectators this is also a financial sanction, because you don't sell tickets and you also sanction the visiting team. The only way is the deduction of points or elimination in a cup competition – to eliminate the team."

He added: "It will only stop if there are sanctions that hurt. If you take out a team from the Champions' League you will see what will happen. We must have the courage to do so."

Blatter said he would raise the matter of tougher sanctions at the next Fifa executive committee meeting, in Brazil in December. "We will speak to everybody [and tell them] to give the sanctions, otherwise we will ask our congress to give Fifa the authority to intervene in all cases of racism directly, and then it will stop."

Blatter praised the game here for its stance: "We applaud the strong stand that British football has taken against the scourge of racism. Racism in our game is a big shame."

But he cautioned: "What has been said about boycotting competitions, a boycott has never given any solutions. When there was a boycott of the Olympic Games what was the result? Nothing. If you have a problem, you cannot run away from the it. You have to solve the problem."