{"id":43207,"date":"2018-05-30T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/30\/ken-bates-accused-of-shameful-comments-over-chelsea-racism-scandal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T14:00:53","slug":"ken-bates-accused-of-shameful-comments-over-chelsea-racism-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43207","title":{"rendered":"Ken Bates accused of \u2018shameful\u2019 comments over Chelsea racism scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Former chairman criticises alleged victims for hiding identities\u2022 Queries why none quit club and says \u2018sniff of money is in air\u2019Ken Bates, the chairman of Chelsea when a number of youth-team footballers claim they were racially abused by their own coaches, has been accused of making \u201ctruly shameful\u201d comments after criticising the alleged victims for wanting to keep their identities secret and questioning why they did not report it when they were children.Bates suggested the reason for \u201call these ancient coming-outs so many years later\u201d was because \u201cthe sniff of money is in the air\u201d and said those in question should have found other clubs if the racism they allegedly encountered at Stamford Bridge, from the age of 11 onwards, was so upsetting. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/may\/30\/ken-bates-chelsea-racism-comments-accused-victims\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Bates accused of \u2018shameful\u2019 comments over Chelsea racism scandal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Former chairman criticises alleged victims for hiding identities\u2022 Queries why none quit club and says \u2018sniff of money is in air\u2019Ken Bates, the chairman of Chelsea when a number of youth-team footballers claim they were racially abused by their own coaches, has been accused of making \u201ctruly shameful\u201d comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}