{"id":17804,"date":"2015-02-18T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17804"},"modified":"2015-02-19T05:19:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:19:00","slug":"english-football-fans-push-black-off-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17804","title":{"rendered":"English football fans push black off train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent video shows a black man in Paris forcefully pushed off a subway train by rowdy British Chelsea fans headed for a match with Paris Saint-Germain. An investigation into their identities is underway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re racist, we&#8217;re racist and that&#8217;s the way we like it\u201d \u2013 this is the phrase they chanted during the incident, seen here in amateur video footage taken at the Richelieu-Drouot station and obtained exclusively by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.theguardian.com\/embed\/video\/football\/video\/2015\/feb\/17\/chelsea-fans-prevent-black-man-boarding-paris-metro-video\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The black man tried to squeeze past them several times, before being given a hard shove.<\/p>\n<p>It is somewhat ironic that Chelsea is \u201ca Jewish-owned football team where the majority of players are black and foreign,\u201d as the club fan magazine\u2019s editor David Johnstone pointed out, expressing his shock at the incident. He added that \u201cI think the majority of Chelsea supporters are as disgusted by what\u2019s happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>French police had to use tear gas on British supporters on the day, shortly before the game, local reports indicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent video shows a black man in Paris forcefully pushed off a subway train by rowdy British Chelsea fans headed for a match with Paris Saint-Germain. An investigation into their identities is underway. \u201cWe&#8217;re racist, we&#8217;re racist and that&#8217;s the way we like it\u201d \u2013 this is the phrase they chanted during the incident, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=17804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;English football fans push black off train&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[186,11039,11038,654,157,476],"class_list":["post-17804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-britain","tag-chant","tag-chelsea","tag-football","tag-racism","tag-soccer"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17807,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17804\/revisions\/17807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}