Chelsea Football Club, one of the most prestigious teams English football will ever witness. But the club is slowly being branded as racist. They have boasted possibly some of the best black players the Premier League has seen, with the likes of Marcel Desailly, Claude Makelele, Michael Essien, Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole.
Tuesday nights events in Paris on the metro before Chelsea's 1-1 draw against PSG, were quite simply unacceptable, ugly and disgraceful. And it is not the first time their fans have been caught in a racism storm. Back in 2012, during an encounter against Manchester United, one Chelsea fan was pictured doing a 'monkey' gesture towards Danny Welbeck, then of Manchester United. Three years on it continues to happen, and the FA, UEFA and even the police have to step up to the mark now and put down a real marker.
We are living in 2015, not the 1980's. For a group of football fans to not allow a man to board a train because he's black leaves me quite frankly speechless. And for these fans to then follow up their actions by chanting "we're racist, we're racist, and that's the way we like it" was almost the final nail in this embarrassing and shambolic act. Now of course not all Chelsea fans behave in this manner, and I guarantee that the majority of them who saw this story first break out would of been shaking their heads in embarrassment for their fellow fans.
This whole shameful act has landed Chelsea in very deep water with all associations, and they also need to make a decisive decision quickly, as the last thing they want is to be labelled 'racists' because at this current moment that is what they are being labelled.
The minority of those Chelsea fans who were involved on that metro will be watching the news and seeing their actions feeling pretty ashamed, and they should be. Their actions were cowardly, shallow and spineless and they have no place in sport, let alone football.
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