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<\/p>\nLampard gave the warning after the club\u2019s fans used derogatory chants against Tottenham and West Ham fans after their pre-season friendly with Reading.<\/p>\n
Tottenham and West Ham fans were the targets of ugly chants from a section of Chelsea\u2019s travelling support at Reading on Sunday.<\/p>\n
One song in particular, which celebrates Lampard\u2019s 200th goal for Chelsea against West Ham at Stamford Bridge back in 2013, describes the Hammers as \u2018pikeys\u2019 \u2013 a derogatory term used as a slur against English Gypsies and travellers of Irish heritage.<\/p>\n
In a similar vein, songs referring to Tottenham\u2019s Jewish connections could also be heard in Berkshire.
\nSpeaking after the game, which Chelsea won 4-3 thanks to goals from Ross Barkley, Kenedy and a double from Mason Mount, Lampard \u2013 himself a former West Ham player \u2013 said the club has worked hard over recent seasons to stamp out disparaging chants.<\/p>\n
The 41-year-old former midfielder said he didn\u2019t want to hear such songs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support for the fans was incredible,\u201d the ex-international told post match press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t hear the song in question, and of course if there\u2019s a song in the modern day or any day that has offensive words I don\u2019t want to hear that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s me saying that as a big Chelsea man who really appreciates the support and had it over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want songs with offensive words. If the fans could sing other songs then I\u2019ll back that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to hear that. The club are very clear with the work we do off the pitch about anything that\u2019s offensive or prejudiced and we\u2019ve made a big mark on that in modern years. We don\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard has warned the club\u2019s supporters against singing offensive songs and chants against their city rivals. Lampard gave the warning after the club\u2019s fans used derogatory chants against Tottenham and West Ham fans after their pre-season friendly with Reading. Tottenham and West Ham fans were the targets of ugly chants from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1397,12101],"class_list":["post-139100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}