Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas believes the club is being unfairly scapegoated for a wider problem of racism in football, GOAL reports.
A group of fans allegedly sung anti-Semitic songs during Chelsea’s 2-2 draw with MOL Vidi in Budapest on Thursday night.
The club issued a strong statement threatening “the strongest possible action” against anyone found to be responsible.
This comes just three days after the Blues banned four supporters from matches pending furthers investigations into the alleged racist abuse on Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling at Stamford Bridge last weekend.
Fabregas is keen to see racism stamped out of the club and football, but believes some people are unjustifiably targeting the club over the racist behaviour of just a minority of their fans.
Fabregas said:
If we have to be taught a lesson at Chelsea to improve whatever happens around the world, then I’m happy. But to point the finger at one football club because of three or four of these people, I don’t think it’s deserved, and I don’t agree with that.
It’s easy to point now at the Chelsea supporters that did that. Unfortunately, this happens in many places. To point the finger at one football club, I think it’s really unfair. There’s an investigation, the club is dealing with this very, very well. Whatever needs to be done will be done. I’ve no doubt about that.
When we cross the line with racism, it’s too far, it shouldn’t be allowed. The people that get caught, they will be punished, and they will be taught a big lesson in their lives. I hope this will help for many other reasons in life.
All I can say is when I’m in the street, when I’m at Stamford Bridge, all over the world when we’ve travelled with Chelsea, they’ve been amazing to me and to the team.
This is not the real face of Chelsea. I’m sorry to hear that. If something happened, it will be dealt with. The focus now is on Chelsea for what happened. Unfortunately, if we look around carefully all over the world, all sports, all football clubs, we will find things like that. The quicker we get rid of these people, the better.
