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Liverpool have branded a video of Chelsea fans racially abusing Mohamed Salah 'unadulterated bigotry' and condemned them in the strongest possible terms.

A clip was widely circulated online on Thursday, before Chelsea's Europa League game with Slavia Prague, showing a group of six men in a bar singing that Salah, who is a devout Muslim, was 'a bomber'.

Chelsea's security team studied the footage and three men were denied entry to the Eden Stadium. The Stamford Bridge club are furious about the latest despicable incident to pockmark their season and have vowed to issues bans to those identified.

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Hope it does not effect his game on Sunday.

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Originally Posted By Vicdamone
Hope it does not effect his game on Sunday.


Why would it affect his game? He's a grown man. If anything it should fire him up even more.


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Originally Posted By Vicdamone
Hope it does not effect his game on Sunday.


Why would it affect his game? He's a grown man. If anything it should fire him up even more.


Because not everyone reacts the same way. As u said it can either fire him up or put him off his game.

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Originally Posted By Vicdamone
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Hope it does not effect his game on Sunday.


Why would it affect his game? He's a grown man. If anything it should fire him up even more.


Because not everyone reacts the same way. As u said it can either fire him up or put him off his game.


I suppose but he is a calm lad, I doubt he will even think about it.


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I would think mo will be looking forward to giving a response on Sunday


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They did well to spot/stop them going into the stadium, especially at an away game.

These are obviously mindless idiots who deserve to be banned, but it does bring to light how social media is used/reviewed by clubs, as by the sounds of it, it was in a bar, so not in/around the stadium.

So what happens if a group of fans sing an offensive songs about the bitters or Utd, that may not be racist/homophobic, but just mean and nasty, could Liverpool ban those fans? not condoning their behaviour, just raising the question on what is deemed acceptable/not acceptable and who judges that, it opens up a big area, especially when it's not in the stadium and they are reviewing peoples posts.

I worked at a company about 5 years ago that was taken over by a bigger rival, a few staff posted on Facebook (on their own pages) how they didn't like this company and how bad it was, they were dragged into an office and forced to resign or be sacked., so this stuff can have a huge impact on peoples lives.

As for Salah, I think this will motivate him to show them how good he is, especially as he is an ex Chelsea player, don't they remember this? lol

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Not since 2012 have we beaten them at Anfield - 4 D / 3 L = 7 PL games at Anfield and also a draw in the League Cup Semi-Final 1st leg in 2014/15. That's 8 games without a win against them at Anfield.

I don't think Salah is the type of player to get negatively affected by some drunk, jealous Chelsea fans abusing his faith. He's likely to be spurned on and given extra motivation to play a great game.

The Anfield crowd should be extra raucous and fully behind Salah and the team on Sunday after this incident and that can only be a good thing for us.

After watching Chelsea stumble to a win in The EL in Prague last night, I have no doubt we will finally beat them on Sunday. Their best 2 players was Willian who will likely be on the bench for them on Sunday and their GK. If Slavia had a little more quality up top they could have beat Chelsea last night.

Klopp should have them straight after Chelsea as soon as the 1st whistle goes...we need to discover the sort of intensity of last season where we blew teams away in the opening half an hour. This Chelsea team are fatigued and if we strike 1st they'll not have the energy to hit back. I do think if we approach this game right we'll rout Chelsea. A Salah Hat-Trick would be karma to boot.

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Liverpool are no angels, and we've had missteps when it comes to race, but dear Lord, why is it alway Chelsea fans? Over and over again, their fans do things like this. They had a bloody song, "He's a racist and we love him" about John Terry.

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Just seen on Sky that Chelsea to take action against any fans disrespecting the minutes silence for Hillsborough this Sunday.

I think their fans have had their cards well and truly marked now. Fair play to their club for getting involved but mindless idiots are found everywhere in our society and stopping them is not always easy.

It's like these individual pitch invasions. One happened and then next you know we have 2 then 3. Mindless morons who thrive on the attention they get. Back in the day they would have been manhandled to the ground and rightly so by police. These days police are no longer in huge numbers inside our grounds and stewards are no deterrent for these pr1cks. It is safer for everyone yet we get this happening still.

What annoys me is the punishment given out is negligible.


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