A Chelsea fan who was on the Metro carriage where a black commuter was prevented from entering defended the groups actions despite the club saying it will do all it can to support any criminal actions brought against the fans involved including banning them from the teams games.
You can see the incident in question by clicking on this link for the video on the Guardian newspapers website.
!7-year-old Fulham resident Mitchell McCoy claims the fans were singing about Captain John Terry and that other passengers were also blocked from entering the carriage telling Press Association Sport: “I’m not in the video but I’m on the carriage. We got on the train and at the station where the man was trying to get on we stopped for a couple of minutes.
“He tried to get on and a few people were pushing him off because there wasn’t much space on the carriage. You couldn’t move.
“People were saying it was because he was black. It’s not true at all. I personally think it’s because he was a PSG fan. Obviously they didn’t want him anywhere with us.
“That guy in the video tried to force himself on, so they pushed him off.”
A chant of “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it” is clearly audible on the video, but McCoy contended it was not about the passenger.
He added: “That song was about John Terry. The only words I know is ‘he’s a racist, he’s a racist’ and I don’t know the rest.”
Asked why that song was sung at that moment, he said: “I’m not sure. I didn’t sing it.
“It wasn’t just that one time that it happened. It wasn’t just with the black people that we weren’t letting on.
“There was white people, women that people weren’t allowing on. There was no space.
“They were saying, ‘You can’t get on this carriage, you have to go somewhere else’.”
McCoy believes fingers were pointed at him following “a stupid Tweet I did last night, (about) the John Terry song”.
He has also heard about Chelsea’s plans to find and punish those responsible saying: “I wouldn’t say (I am) worried, because I haven’t done anything wrong, neither has any of my mates.”
“I don’t see how that can be used against me because I’m not in the video.
“Of course we’re concerned (about being banned). It wouldn’t surprise me at all.
“(But) they ban you for anything. It wouldn’t surprise me.”
When asked if he would be prepared to name those involved McCoy added: “I don’t recognise any of them so I wouldn’t be much use.”
