Football Banter Thread

Statement from the club made at the start of this afternoon's pre-match briefing:

On behalf of the owner, the board and everybody at Chelsea Football Club, we would like to make it clear our disgust with regard to the incident that took place on the Paris Metro on Tuesday evening.

We were appalled by what we saw. The club would also like to apologise unreservedly to Souleymane for the behaviour of a small number of individuals and their unforgiveable actions towards him.

We have been cooperating fully with the Metropolitan Police and the Paris Police in the ongoing investigation and we will continue to do so. We have also been conducting our own investigation and all information from that is being shared with those police forces.

We announced last night we have suspended three individuals from Stamford Bridge pending the conclusion of our investigation. Should evidence show that they are guilty in that incident then the club will ban them for life.

It is only right that we complete our investigation to establish all of the facts of that evening but we have taken swift and decisive action from the information we have received so far.

The people involved in that incident in Paris do not represent Chelsea Football Club. They do not stand for the values of this club and they have no place at this club. This has been echoed loud and clear by the vast majority of Chelsea supporters. We would like to thank the many Chelsea fans who have come forward with information in this case.

We are a club that is proud of its diversity. We work extremely hard in the game and in our communities to promote equality and fight discrimination of all forms. We are proud to support the work of Kick It Out and Show Racism the Red Card and other organisations, and we work closely with similar programmes with the Premier League, the FA and others.
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Is it true that JM talked about/suggested the idea of the victim coming to Stamford Bridge so he could see what Chelsea's really about Cosimo?
 
BaZ87 said:
Is it true that JM talked about/suggested the idea of the victim coming to Stamford Bridge so he could see what Chelsea's really about Cosimo?
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He did and this is what he said:

‘This is not Chelsea,’ the manager said. ‘They are not Chelsea.

‘Chelsea is the owner, the manager, the players, the people that work here and the true Chelsea supporters.

‘We feel ashamed but maybe we shouldn’t because I refuse to be connected with these people. I am connected with Chelsea and the many good things Chelsea defend and represent. I left Chelsea in 2007 and I couldn’t wait for the moment to be back, and it’s not because of people like this that I wanted to be back.

‘I felt ashamed when I knew what happened but I repeat: I am a proud Chelsea Football Club manager because I know what the club is and these people don’t represent it.

‘The dressing room reacted the same way I reacted: with disappointment, condemning the situation and supporting the gentleman involved, but always with the feeling that we feel ashamed but maybe we shouldn’t because we don’t belong to these people, and these people don’t belong to us.

‘All these years, even without me, I am sure this dressing room was always a dressing room with big principles of equality. We had everything, absolutely everything - not just [different] races but also [different] religions.

‘Chelsea since minute one after the incident are doing absolutely everything because [we have] zero tolerance. Apart from that we have to keep feeling that our club is a great club and our club has no space for these kinds of people.

‘We feel very sorry about it, we want to fight it and we apologise to the gentleman.’

The club confirmed Souleymane, the gentleman involved in the incident in the Paris Metro, will, along with his family, be invited to the return leg against PSG at Stamford Bridge next month.

‘I would support the idea even not knowing that the gentleman likes football,’ Mourinho said.

‘He would feel what Chelsea is. At this moment maybe he has the wrong idea of what Chelsea Football Club is. I don’t know if the gentleman loves football but for sure he would love to feel that the people [that were involved] in the incident are not Chelsea Football Club.’
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Cosimo said:
He did and this is what he said:
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The club confirmed Souleymane, the gentleman involved in the incident in the Paris Metro, will, along with his family, be invited to the return leg against PSG at Stamford Bridge next month.
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Poor guy. First he gets racially abused and now John Terry's going to sleep with his wife :(

edit: Sorry Cos, you walked into that mate.
 
"Tottenham are benefitting from the legacy of young talent he left at White Hart Lane, says new Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood."

Oh come the **** on. Sherwood's problem is that he just doesn't know when to shut up. I'm not saying he didn't help but, to call it a legacy?! He makes it sound like we're winning the league.

"There are a lot of big stars and he could have discarded Ryan Mason and gone with Nabil Bentaleb. He's not done that - so fair play to him."
"I respect him for that. It's good for me. I left a bit of a legacy there with those young players and he's carried it on."
 
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