Fabrice Muamba's son subjected to racist abuse during a school rugby game in Manchester

A school in Manchester says it is to launch a full investigation after footballer Fabrice Muamba claimed his son was subjected to racist abuse during a rugby game.The former Bolton player, who retired from the game after a near-fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch in 2012, took to social media to call out the abuse.He said that monkey chants were directed at his 12-year-old son during a rugby game against Manchester Grammar School.

In a statement on his official Twitter and Facebook pages on Saturday night, Fabrice said: "Today my 12 year old son received monkey chants for scoring at a rugby game. The culprits were Manchester Grammar School students.

"Manchester Grammar School I hope this incident will be addressed within your team and school."Racism is learnt, be careful what you are teaching your children."

Manchester Grammar School has responded with an official statement, saying a full investigation will now be carried out into the claims.The statement said: "Manchester Grammar School condemns any form of racism. We are a diverse school with pupils from all backgrounds, and we take any allegations of racism incredibly seriously.

"Racism is abhorrent and we know the damage, distress and upset it causes. "It is something we talk about regularly to all pupils.

"We have already launched a full investigation to establish what happened and we will take the appropriate action.

"As part of that inquiry we will be speaking to the family as soon as possible to offer our support and address their concerns."

Manchester Grammar School, based in Rusholme, is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK.Fabrice, who lives in Cheshire with wife and three children, responded to the school's tweets.

He said he was keen to speak to them formally on Monday (13 September) "to discuss how we can collectively prevent this from happening to another student".He added: "There needs to be consequences for actions."