FA open investigation into Chelsea's new uKKKrainian signing Mykhailo Mudryk's use of in a Tiktok hiphop video

The Football Association is looking into a video which showed Mykhailo Mudryk using the N-word in a TikTok video.

Mudryk, 22, posted the now deleted video in July 2022.

The Ukrainian, who joined Chelsea for an initial £62million earlier this month, has issued an apology after the footage emerged.

Mudryk was reciting a 2017 freestyle rap by American artist Lil Baby which contained the N-word.

The FA will now decide if Mudryk should be punished for the video which has been viewed over 214,000 times.

Mudryk's representatives issued an apology after the video emerged on Monday night.

"Mykhailo is deeply sorry for any offence caused," Mudryk's representative said in a statement.

"While his intention was solely to recite lyrics of a song, Mykhailo regrets his decision and wholeheartedly accepts it was not appropriate."

The FA has previously punished players for historic social media posts which were seen to have brought the game into disrepute.

Middlesbrough's Marc Bola was punished earlier this year over a tweet he posted when he was just 14 years old.

Bola, then aged 24, was given a warning and ordered to complete an education course over a homophobic social media post.

Similarly, an investigation was opened up in 2021 when a past tweet from Jarrod Bowen was discovered to have used offensive racist terminology.

Bowen also received a warning and told to complete an education course for using the N-word in a tweet when he was just 15 years old.

Andre Gray was given a four-match ban in 2016 for homophobic comments made on social media in 2012.

The then-Burnley forward was fined £25,000 and ordered to attend an FA education course following an Independent Regulatory Commission hearing.