Do more to tackle racism - Ferdinand
QPR defender Rio Ferdinand says the incident in which Chelsea fans stopped a black man boarding a Paris train shows football cannot be complacent about tackling racism.
Chelsea have banned five fans over the incident before their Champions League game at Paris St-Germain.
“We’ve started to think ‘football has cured it’ and put the whole issue on the back-burner,” the former England captain told The Sun on Sunday.
“It is a rude awakening for the game.”
The former West Ham, Leeds United and Manchester United defender, 36, admitted that he had “been guilty of complacency” himself.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said he was “ashamed” by the conduct of the club’s fans in the French capital.
Amateur video showed a man being pushed from a train at the Metro station while a group chants, “we’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it”.
“It is a rude awakening for the whole game and now it’s essential that there has to be a continual effort,” said Ferdinand, who is a member of FA chairman Greg Dyke’s commission looking at how to improve English football.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk