Newcastle United and England star Kieron Dyer has said players who suffer racist abuse will one day walk off the pitch in protest.

European football's governing body Uefa is meeting this week to discuss the escalating problem of racial abuse at European matches.

Dyer called for worldwide bans for racist fans.

Talking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Dyer said he had not yet experienced personal abuse, but that Newcastle colleague Carl Cort and others had.

He called for the game's ruling bodies to ban offenders from every ground in the world, saying "There is no place for racism in football."

Carl Cort: Subject of racist chants says Dyer

Dyer was speaking as Newcastle United became the first club in England to be presented with a Show Racism the Red Card award before Saturday's clash with West Bromwich Albion.

The international said how he had witnessed both England team-mate Emile Heskey and Newcastle club colleague Carl Cort suffer racists taunts at the hands of foreign fans.

Heskey, Arsenal's Thierry Henry, Ipswich's Marcus Bent and Blackburn's former Newcastle star Andy Cole have all been the subject of similar abuse in European competition this season.

Dyer said: "If anyone is seen or heard to be making racist comments at a football match then they should be handed a worldwide ban from the game for the rest of their lives.

'Walk off'

"Isn't that a great way to stop it happening? There's no doubt other supporters would sit up and take notice and learn to keep their mouths shut.

"One day it will be so bad that a player might just walk off and leave the match behind.

"There could come a time when a manager asks his whole team to leave the pitch in protest.

"If it ever happened to me I wouldn't give in. I'm the sort of person who would be even more determined. Any racist abuse would give me an extra 10%, if only to prove people wrong."