Uefa has agreed to investigate claims that Ipswich Town's Marcus Bent and Finidi George were subjected to racist taunts during the team's 1-0 Uefa Cup defeat of Sartid.

Europe's football governing body will also look into incidents during the game between CSKA and Blackburn Rovers in Sofia.

Bent scored the goal which sealed an aggregate 2-1 first-round win over the Yugoslav side.

"It was a hostile crowd. There was a lot of racist abuse, a lot of spitting when you went near the crowd," Bent told BBC Radio Five Live.

"But the boys dealt with it, I dealt with it and all that really matters is that we came away with a 1-0 win."

A Uefa spokesman said: "We are aware of what happened and we are going to investigate."

The Football Association has announced that it will be seeking urgent talks with Uefa after several England-based players suffered racist abuse in European club competitions.

Uefa is already looking into alleged abuse and missile throwing directed at Arsenal players during September's Champions league victory at PSV Eindhoven.

It is also looking into complaints from Fulham over their Uefa Cup tie at Hajduk Split and Liverpool's treatment at Valencia in the Champions League.

"We need to step up the way in which we are looking at this issue - it is a worrying trend that it is the English clubs who seem to be suffering the most," said David Davies, the FA's director of international strategy.

"We will sit down with Uefa to find new initiatives to tackle this problem."

George, Ipswich's Nigerian winger, was also singled out by the hostile crowd in Yugoslavia and said action should be taken to prevent a repeat occurence in the future.

"I could hear them all the time - it was not pleasant at all," he said.

"It's not the worst I have had - but it was still pretty bad, they are quite backward in their thinking and something should be done."

Uefa has refused to confirm if the inquiry will deal with racist abuse towards Rovers striker, Andy Cole.

At the end of the match in Sofia, the referee and his assistants were also showered by missiles and had to be sheltered by riot police as they left the field.

In a statement, Uefa said: "If there is evidence of a breach of discipline, it will be referred to Uefa's control and discipline body, which meets next on the 10th of October."

Blackburn manager Graeme Souness said he was "sickened" at the way Cole was treated in Bulgaria.

"That was bad but you get dopes everywhere," he told the Lancashire Evening Telegraph.

"Obviously they had their fair share of dopes there last night.

"We were not surprised by the atmosphere but I have got to say it was very hostile and intimidating," he said.