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More Chelsea fans arrested for racist chants than any other Premier League club

More Chelsea fans arrested for racist chants than any other Premier League club
20.02.2015 19:00
The shameful scenes seen on a Paris Metro train on Tuesday night where a group of Chelsea fans pushed a black man off a train before chanting a racially abusive song has blighted the club’s reputation.

But while the attitudes of the group on the train is no reflection of the vast majority that visit Stamford Bridge every week or support the Blues, official figures from the Home Office reveal that there were more Chelsea fans arrested for racist chanting than any other Premier League clubs’ supporters over the last 13 seasons.

28 arrests for racist or indecent chanting have been recorded since the start of the 2001-02 Premier League season.

Stoke are the next team with 26 recorded incidents, but that includes their time in the Championship and League One.

Leeds, Sunderland and West Ham have all encountered 25 arrests for the same offence, while the next club that has spent the past 13 seasons in the top flight is Tottenham with 18 fans detained by police.

The Hammers suffered the most arrests in a single season with 9 fans detained, with that season seeing the crackdown on anti-Semitic chanting towards Tottenham come to light after sections of the West Ham support abused their opposition.

(independent.co.uk)

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