Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, has joined in condemning the Chelsea fans, who were involved in a racist incident on the Paris Metro on Wednesday.
The Gunners manager described the supporters as “pathetic and dreadful”.
Some Blues fans were caught on camera, pushing back a black man, as he tried to board a train at Richelieu-Drouot station, before chanting “we’re racist and that’s the way we like it”.
“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.”
Chelsea have identified three of those fans and subsequently suspended them from Stamford Bridge. Wenger also feels manager Jose Mourinho should join in publicly condemning the behaviour.
He 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.”
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