Adebayo Akinfenwa responds to depraved chants from MK Dons fans amid promised crackdown

Managers will be allowed to take their players off the pitch in protest at the plague of a vile chant sweeping the country.

As Wycombe striker Adebayo Akinfenwa went into full 'Beast' mode after MK Dons dunces made him the latest target of the scurrilous refrain, football authorities promised a “swift and aggressive” crackdown.

Chairboys boss Gareth Ainsworth was so upset by the filth aimed at Akinfenwa that he was going to call his team off the field if the chanting had not stopped.

MK Dons chairman Pete Winkelman offered to go on the pitch with a microphone and appeal directly to away fans dredging the pond life songbook.

Akinfenwa, 39, accepted personal apologies from Winkelman and manager Liam Manning after the Dons' 1-0 win on Saturday, but the scourge of an obnoxious chant is by no means limited to one fanbase.

EFL bosses are so alarmed by the spread of the morons' chorus that they have warned supporters who recycle it face prosecution by the police and bans from attending football grounds.

The chant is so vulgar and backward – not to mention defamatory – that Mirror Sport cannot reproduce it.

But Akinfenwa – a powerful striker none of the gobby 'fans' would be brave enough to confront with such verbal sewage in the street – raged: “Enough is enough. For some reason this chant has come about.

"I first heard of it two games ago against Oxford. They started it against the gaffer, then my name, then it was heard again at Morecambe and we reported it.

"I can take a joke, but that's not a joke. I'm all for entertainment. I can take 'bants' (banter). But there were kids here. I want to know where this trend has come from.

"The reason I went up there was for people who can't put that on their shoulders. Now I want it to