LONDON (AP) – Chelsea plans to invite the black man abused by its supporters at a French metro station before a Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain this week to its London stadium for the return leg.
The offer came as Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho discussed the Paris incident for the first time, saying Friday: “I feel ashamed with being connected with these sad things.”
A group of Chelsea fans were filmed stopping the man from boarding a Paris metro train on Tuesday and then chanting: “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it.”
“We feel very sorry about it,” Mourinho said at Chelsea’s training ground. “We want to fight it. We feel ashamed and we want to apologize to the gentleman.”
The man has been identified as Souleymane S. by Le Parisien newspaper.