It’s wrong to pin this on one club. It’s a warning to everyone that they need to be responsible for their actions & comments

SAYS TROY TOWNSEND

KICK IT OUT’S Troy Townsend admits he’s been angered, but not shocked, by the three latest high-profile racism allegations in football.

Chelsea supporters have twice in the past eight days been caught up in storms.

Last Saturday, Raheem Sterling was abused by Stamford Bridge season ticket holder Colin Wing – who denies that the abuse was racist. In Budapest on Thursday, a small section of Blues fans sang an anti-Semitic song about Tottenham.

At the start of the month, a banana skin was thrown at Arsenal’s Pierre- Emerick Aubameyang by a Spurs fan.

Townsend said: “People have asked, ‘ Were you shocked?’. The honest answer is no.

“And you can tell by the way Raheem reacted, he wasn’t either. We wouldn’t have wanted anything to have happened the way it did, not to Raheem and not to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, or that situation with Chelsea in Europe.

“But sometimes things need to happen for people to open their eyes and really appreciate that racism and discrimination in all of their formats have never really gone away from the game.

“For someone as high profile as Raheem to come out and talk the way he did makes people