Chelsea fans prevent black man boarding Paris metro train (with video)

[chrysa]

Chelsea football fans prevent a black man from boarding a Paris metro train shortly before the Champions League fixture between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. The unidentified passenger attempts to squeeze on to the train, only to be pushed forcefully back on to the platform at the Richelieu-Drouot station. The fans then chant: 'We're

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Gross, so gross.

[waterpulse]

Real talk though: A lot of club ultras employ racist chants to throw opposing players of color off their game, and will insist they're not racist but only doing their part for their club. Like, the racism problem is so huge that IDK if shaming Chelsea will do anything. Even now, the club has taken a stance of "we don't condone this" but watch them do absolutely nothing, like every other club before them.

(Don't get me wrong, it's important to bring these incidents to light for awareness, but seeing FIFA/UEFA stamp "Say No To Racism" everywhere and pat themselves on the back like they're fixing a problem is really depressing too.)

RE: Gross, so gross.

[chrysa]

Well, Chelsea is apparently banning those fans from games, cooperating with police, etc. I agree this isn't on them -- your club "chooses" you, but once they do, they can't get rid of you apparently =_=

This was some random dude on the metro who just wanted to get home, though, not an opposition player. There's literally no context to his gross behaviour other than "because they're racist assholes". ETA: Not that I condone it in games, of course. Just. Like, what the actual fuck did this guy do to you?

Supposedly, Chelsea is the worst of the lot when it comes to London -- and with Fullham, apparently. It might just be the area of London they historically represented. I know a lot of clubs like Arsenal and Tottenham and their fans usually go out of their way to stamp out this type of behaviour. Though supposedly there was an incidence of violence/racism after the last NL Derby a few weeks ago.

RE: Gross, so gross.

[waterpulse]

Lol seriously. I mean, no wonder a good portion of the population thinks that football fans are out of control assholes if they're behaving like this. I thought Chelsea would be better about it since all of Mou's comments about them being too quiet at Stamford Bridge because they're all too uppity middle-class lol guess they showed me. -_-

RE: Gross, so gross.

[riellemayer]

This was some random dude on the metro who just wanted to get home, though, not an opposition player. There's literally no context to his gross behaviour other than "because they're racist assholes".

And that's what makes this so much worse. This isn't a PSG supporter, this is literally just some guy trying to get on the metro and they're being racist fucking pricks.

Supposedly, Chelsea is the worst of the lot when it comes to London

This is 100% true. We have the worst record when it comes to racism/hooliganism. They don't seem to care if you're a supporter or not, either, so long as you're not white/a minority in some way.

[riellemayer]

I've been sitting here trying to think of what to say, but everything's already been said a million times (about ultras and Chelsea specifically). It's exhausting. It's really fucking exhausting.

[riellemayer]

More from TG:

Paul Nolan, a British expatriate who filmed the clip on his phone, told the Guardian that he had arrived on the platform on Tuesday evening after finishing work.

“The doors were open and I could see and hear that a lot of chanting was going on,” he said. “It looked like it was quite aggressive so I just took out by phone to record it.”

He said that the train had been stopped for about three minutes when the man arrived on the platform and tried to get on.

“He was obviously completely shocked when they pushed him off. I don’t think he realised who they were. He then tried to get on again and got pushed off a second time.

“I was just completely appalled by it and so that’s why I tried to catch some of it on my phone, although I was a bit self-conscious as it was getting quite aggressive and I overhead one of the Chelsea fans say something about stabbing someone. I think he was referring to a Paris Saint-Germain supporter who was on the platform

[chrysa]

what's worse is that paris already has a horrible streak of racism that they're trying to deal with right now, English football fans don't need to be dragging more of this crap into their country. A lot of french racism is very under the surface (when i studied abroad, a bunch of my classmates went clubbing out on a night I was sick and the two black students in our group weren't allowed into the club after everyone else got in. Gross.)

idk just. the world is not a nice place most of the time, and football is supposed to be escape from that :(

[chrysa]

*gives you a hug*

I think the people I feel the worst for are Chelsea fans who are minorities. Honestly, I think the most fitting punishment (or would give me the most joy in life) would be to make them say it to Pogba's face before banhammering them the hell out of ever attending a game.

[lemmeseeuvogue]

[trinity85]

DISGUSTING!

[lied_ohne_worte]

Probably they'd like to do this all the time at home, but realise there might be consequences and are only covertly racist unless they are amongst themselves. And then when they're abroad and think they can finally be honest because no one will know them, and they speak a foreign language. Cowardly pigs

[the4thjuliek]

Apparently they were also singing about stabbing a PSG fan which I think, would have scared people who wanted to get on the train.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Pigs. I hope they can get them on something legally, in addition to stadium bans.

[fruitymangoes]

people are leaving the train in the video, towards the end you can see a black woman getting off and the guys cheering