Chelsea F.C. Announces Initiative To Fight Anti-Semitism
The chant went like this: “Alvaro, oh, Alvaro, oh. He came from Real Madrid, he hates the fucking Yids.”
At a September match between Chelsea and Leicester City, fans of Chelsea serenaded their new €6o million man Alvaro Morata with that mocking cry. “Yid” is often used to describe the fans of one Chelsea’s most bitter rivals, the Tottenham Hot Spurs, a team associated with the Jewish area of London in which it resides. Morata released a statement through the team almost immediately after the game, imploring his fans to refrain from using that song.
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