For All You Sports Fans, Especially Brits
The most anti-Semitic nation in Europe has fans yelling anti-Semitic slurs at the soccer coach. His dad, a Holocaust survivor, watches and listens.
Chelsea’s Israeli soccer coach Avram Grant has been the victim of anti-Semitic abuse from his own club’s fans, according to a British tabloid.
The Daily Star says that during Sunday’s Carling Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea supporters, dismayed by their team’s poor performance, began chanting “insults which made reference to the Chelsea manager being Jewish.”
The newspaper quotes a fan who was sitting near Grant’s Holocaust survivor father as saying that, “As the game started to slip away from Chelsea, some fans started shouting out some pretty nasty anti-Semitic stuff.”
The fan told the Star that, “It must have been very distressing for his dad. There seem to be some hard-core Chelsea fans who are very anti-Grant because he’s Jewish.”
Pigs.
- Aggie