Chelsea’s Wesley Fofana shares sickening racist messages following red card in Burnley Premier League draw

Chelsea have launched an announcement lashing out on the “vile” and “appalling” racist abuse suffered by Wesley Fofana following Saturday’s 1-1 Premier League draw with Burnley.

The Blues dropped one other two valuable factors within the race for a top-four end at Stamford Bridge, the place an early Joao Pedro opener was cancelled out by a Zian Flemming header in second-half damage time.

Previous to Flemming’s leveller, Fofana was despatched off for a second bookable offence – Chelsea’s ninth pink card of the season in all competitions and their sixth within the Premier League, greater than another group.

The Frenchman will now be suspended for the journey to leaders Arsenal subsequent weekend, and he shared screenshots of sickening racist messages he obtained on social media after the sport, with a number of customers of the platform sending him monkey emojis.

Fofana stated on his personal Instagram story: “2026, it is nonetheless the identical, nothing modifications. These persons are by no means punished. You create large campaigns in opposition to racism, however no one really does something.”

Chelsea working with authorities after Wesley Fofana suffers racist abuse

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Following Fofana’s posts, Chelsea issued an announcement in help of the defender, insisting that they’d cooperate with related authorities to make sure that the perpetrators face the “strongest potential motion”.

“Chelsea Soccer Membership is appalled and disgusted by vile on-line racist abuse directed at Wesley Fofana,” the membership stated. “The focused racist abuse Wes has been subjected to following at present’s Premier League fixture in opposition to Burnley is abhorrent and won’t be tolerated.

“Such behaviour is totally unacceptable and runs counter to the values of the sport and the whole lot we stand for as a membership. There isn’t any room for racism.

“We stand unequivocally with Wes. He has our full help, as do all our gamers who’re too typically pressured to endure this hatred merely for doing their job. We’ll work with the related authorities and platforms in figuring out the perpetrators and take the strongest potential motion.”

In the meantime, the Premier League stated: “We stand alongside Wesley Fofana and Chelsea in condemning the vile racist abuse he has obtained on social media.

“Racism has no place in our recreation or wherever in society and we’ll proceed to do all we are able to to help gamers who’re subjected to discriminatory abuse. Soccer is for everybody.”

Burnley’s Hannibal Mejbri additionally obtained despicable racist messages on social media following the sport, to which he responded: “Educate your self and your children pls.”

Racism in soccer is all the time a hot-button matter, however particularly now, within the wake of Gianluca Prestianni’s alleged abuse of Vinicius Junior throughout final week’s Champions League conflict between Benfica and Actual Madrid.

Vinicius claimed that the Argentine aimed a racist remark in the direction of him following his opening objective in that 1-0 playoff victory, however Prestianni has denied the accusations and labelled the scenario a misunderstanding.

A report from ESPN states that the Benfica attacker has now given proof to UEFA, alleging that he known as Vinicius an anti-gay slur versus the racist time period ‘mono’, which means monkey in Spanish.

Prestianni faces a 10-game ban if discovered responsible, however as issues stand, the winger might be obtainable for the second leg of Benfica’s UCL playoff with Actual Madrid on the Bernabeu subsequent week.