Monday 26 March 2018

Chelsea racism claims could be just the tip of the iceberg

Gwyn Williams and Graham Rix facing legal action but solicitor says there might be ‘potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of young people’ who experienced racial abuse

After all the alleged failures, all the specific allegations that boys in their care were stripped of self-confidence in a hard-faced world inhabited by some deeply unpleasant characters, what do Chelsea do next?

Not just Chelsea either, if the latest former player to begin legal action against the club – a man, now 51, who says he cannot bear to pass Stamford Bridge or even watch them on television because of the psychological scars more than 30 years on – is correct in his assertion that there will be hundreds of others throughout the sport who have experienced the same kind of deplorable racism that he is alleging.

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from Football | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2G3pbzs

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