England issue warning that could see Argentina Test abandoned

The stance follows an incident last year when Asher Opoku-Fordjour and Chandler Cunningham-South were targeted by Argentina supporters while warming up in the in-goal area during the first half of England's 22-17 victory in the second Test in San Juan.

The pair were subjected to the abuse, prompting the RFU to report the incident to World Rugby. An investigation followed, but no supporters were charged because those responsible could not be identified.

"When we first started warming up, we had our individual time," Opoku-Fordjour told Telegraph Sport last September.

"I was warming up on the floor and there were racial slurs said to me from the crowd while I was warming up. I just ignored it, I was trying to warm up. It was in English. I just ignored it, didn’t tell anyone, and cracked on. I was locked into the game."

George, who is captaining England during this summer's Nations Championship in Maro Itoje's absence, said leaving the field is one of the options being discussed if similar abuse occurs again.

"It is something being considered," George said to The Times. "There is no place for it. It is something that I will remember for the rest of my life when I heard that had happened and it wasn’t directed at me.

"It was directed at my team-mates and I care about my team-mates more than anything. So if anything like that happened then it deserves the strongest of reactions.

"The first thing we’d do is make the referee aware of what we’ve seen so it can be properly logged and all the protocols can go into place."

George revealed he has spoken with several of England's black players, including Opoku-Fordjour and Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, to understand how they would want the team to respond if it happened again.

"This isn’t just my call to make. The abuse wasn’t aimed at me," George added. "I’m a white player and I’ve never had to experience anything like that.

"What I will continue to do is try and have another couple of conversations with another select group of players from different ethnic backgrounds and come up with what the plan would be.

"But I really hope and I am optimistic that the Argentinian rugby union has taken that very seriously. I’m seriously hoping we don’t have to deal with that and that won’t become a part of the game."