By Chris Wright
The poor chap who was physically prevented from boarding a Paris Metro train by a gaggle of moronic Chelsea fans last month has criticised the club’s attempt to recompense him for his trouble.
The fans in question gleefully chanted “We’re racist and that’s the way we like it” at Souleymane S, as he’s known, while repeatedly shoving him from the train carriage after the first leg of the Champions League last 16 tie between Chelsea and PSG.
Souleymane was subsequently invited to Stamford Bridge in order to attend the second leg as a guest of honour but declined the offer, claiming that Chelsea are attempting to fob him off by treating him like a child.
He also, fairly understandably, had qualms with potentially being seated next to the very same fans who racially abused him in Paris a fortnight ago.
“I won’t go. They can’t buy me with a little piece of paper. I’m not a child,” Souleymane told RTL radio.
“I don’t want to sit in that stadium next to those people who pushed me.”
Souleymane also revealed that he still struggles with recurring nightmares about the abuse he received that night.
“I still hear the voices of those people who pushed me because of the colour of my skin,” he continued.
“I can’t go to work anymore. I live with racism but it’s the first time I’ve had to go to a doctor to ask for pills to calm myself down.
“I want these people to be prosecuted and justice to be done. Racism must stop.”
Good on him, sticking to his guns like that.
Frankly, who could blame him for not wanting to share a stadium with such unashamed troglodytes?