Gunners boss Arsene Wenger talked about the Chelsea fans that refused to let a black man board a Paris Metro carriage they were on, calling them “pathetic” and “dreadful”.
A group of Blues supporters in Paris for Chelsea’s first-leg last-16 match against PSG on Tuesday night were filmed pushing a black man out off the Metro carriage at Richelieu-Drouot station before chanting “we’re racist… and that’s the way we like it”.
Chelsea has already identified three of the people involved thanks to other fans coming forward and has suspended them from attending Chelsea games while vowing to support any legal action taken against them.
“It looked pathetic and dreadful – unfortunately we have all kinds of that but we have to be extremely severe with any incident of that calibre,” he told reporters.
“It is society’s problem. Nobody has found a miraculous solution but it starts from childhood and education.
“There is a danger of radical people in every society – there is always a number of people ready for radical solutions and you have to find a way to deal with that.”
When asked if he thought that Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho should publically condemn the behaviour of those found guilty the 65-year-old Frenchman said: “I don’t think managers agree with that type of behaviour.
“Everybody has to be against that type of behaviour, it’s absolutely ridiculous.”
