Chelsea's Nigerian midfielder Mikel forced off Twitter after racist abuse
Posted On Friday, 21st September 2012
Mikel losses the ball in midfield in their clash against Juventus
Chelsea’s Nigeria midfielder John Obi Mikel was forced to close his Twitter account on Thursday after suffering a barrage of racist abuse prompted by his costly mistake against Juventus.
Chelsea originally insisted it was coincidental that Mikel had decided to delete the ‘Mikel12Official’ account he only set up earlier this year.
But the European champions later admitted they had informed the police after being made aware of the unacceptable nature of the abuse Mikel had endured.
“We’ve been made aware of racist tweets targeted at Mikel which are totally unacceptable, disgusting and abhorrent,” a Chelsea statement read.
“We’ve informed the police and support taking the strongest possible action.”
Mikel gave the ball away with a careless pass 10 minutes from the final whistle and Juventus took advantage as Claudio Marchisio played in Fabio Quagliarella for the equaliser.
The 25-year-old apologised immediately afterwards, saying: “If I want to make up an excuse, I can. But, for me, I gave the ball away. I put my hands up, we move on.
“I’m sorry about the mistake, but there are no excuses.”
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THESE PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING AND THE SCUM OF THE EARTH, I HOPE THEY ALL GET ARRESTED, CALL THEMSELVES FOOTBALL FANS, WHAT A JOKE.
Racial abuse in any form is unnacceptable.
Those abusing Mikel racially are just ignorant pillocks.
Having said that,l think Mikel was awful as well as Lampard.John Terry was Terrible.
This is only the begginning of bad things to happen to Chelsea after Stupid Di-Mateo forced Essien out of Chelsea.
At least there were glimpses of THE ESSIEN we know last Tuesday.
football fans have become terrorist this days,they’ve been waiting for this very moment to attack u because u’ve be makeing to much mistake,anyway i believe we all’ve watch a match were by a blayer will even score them selfs,he apologise we should forgive him as a brother a son and as african, pls no insult because if we jun those white peopel to insult him meany we are even wost then them his our brother, peace to our mothers land
Using charm and sharing ur salary with coach will not help you.Essien is out u’re exposed 2day best coach snatch Essien Mikel no China team will ever pick u
these fans are idiots indeed.when Mikel played well and helped won the EUFA cup last season,what did they say?…The guy makes a mistake and you rain racial abuse on him.God will punish such ungrateful souls.That same skinned Drogba,Ramirez,Cole,Malouda & Kalou won the cup for you and after just a few months you turn around and abuse that skin just because Mikel made a mistake and had apologized.I wish to advice the rest of the players to show their displeasure to this else it could be their turn next time.
This is the end results of the juju Obi used to get Essien injured to take over his position.Juju will take you high and drop you down with disgrace.
What does this got to do in Ghana football?
@ Sergeant, ur ugly uncivilized bigoat, u think that because ur ghana ugly juju black stars used juju to play football that other Africans players used juju also. Listen senseless ugly ape, i love Essien because his is my Africa hommy, but Essien problem is from that ur ugly juju black stars of Ghana. Remember what happened to ur uncivilized ugly juju black stars of ghana in 2012 nation cup and ur former whiteman coach said that ur ugly juju black stars used juju against each other. U haters continue hating Mikel, who God bless no man curse. Atleast Mikel play with and won Champion league but ur short ugly Essien did’nt play.
you foolish over-aged monkey residing on the african continent.no wonder the whites have seen how senseless you are and they are insulting your fellow Nigerian called Obi.The Black Stars will continue to beat YOUR SUPER CHICKENS until thy kingdom come.We beat you in London 4-1,beat you in AFCON 2008 AND AFCON 2010.Nigeria will continue to lick our ass when it comes to football.You idiots,twerp and a bufoon.upon all your population,your team plays second fiddle to GAHAN.Obi is paying for the juju he did Essien.He’ll suffer more than this.This useless Obi is your best player.A 6ft 2in player who cant hit the ball hard enough to score.Agyeman Badu,Anthony Annan and Essien are able to hit the ball and score from out the box.what able Obi? No wonder your fellow Nigeriansaid he will always choose Essien ahead of Obi.Wise up,you 419 monkey.
The Super Eagles team will always play second fiddle to GHANA BLACK STARS when it comes to football.
@ Osama, ur ugly senseless ape, narraw minded ape, u think Chelsea FC is that ur ugly juju Ashanti Kotoko or Ur ape juju black stars. Wake up child and reason like humanbeing and stop crying for Essein. Essein is too old but claim 29 yrs. Chelsea don’t need him again, call him back in that ur ugly juju black stars and that’s where ur juju short ugly Essien belong . I know u Ghanaians are senseless ape and can’t reason well. Stop decieving urself, English league is not that ghana useless political party noise NDC vs NPP propagada and liars.
@Osama, ur ugly senseless ape, narraw minded ape, u think Chelsea FC is that ur ugly juju Ashanti Kotoko or Ur ape juju black stars. Wake up child and reason like humanbeing and stop crying for Essein. Essein is too old but claim 29 yrs. Chelsea don’t need him again, call him back in that ur ugly juju black stars and that’s where ur juju short ugly Essien belong . I know u Ghanaians are senseless ape and can’t reason well. Stop decieving urself, English league is not that ghana useless political party noise NDC vs NPP propagada and liars.
U are a fool for saying mikel used juju on essien. Is dat how ur father married ur mother? Injury is part of football. Wen terry made a mistake against arsenal, no body penalized him. Mistake is part of football. Get that to ur empty brain.
this na small thing obi mikel you will continue to make mistake till you walk out of chelsea
THE END IS NEAR FOR OBI MIKEL. HE HAS BEEN PLAYING MEDIOCRE FOR A LONG TIME AT CHELSEA BUT ALWAYS HIDING BEHIND ESSIEN’S SHADOW. NOW THAT ESSIEN IS NOT THERE, HE WILL BE EXPOSED EVEN MORE, JUST WATCH…ASEM, I TOLD YOU SO!
stop insulting one another and give matured facts.
Ugly ape, senseless and low minded ghanaians. Who is Essien? Chelsea won champion league with out Ugly Essien. Currently Chelsea is leading in EPL without ugly Essien. Pls senseless ghanaians be wise and smart. Chelsea have loan out ugly Essein, chelsea don’t need Essien again and we don’t want ugly Essian ass in the beach again and chelsea don’t need Essien scoring own goal and commiting penalty again, period. Why u ugly ghanaians crying like a baby. As for ur ugly juju black stars, Africans and the whole world is aware that ugly ghanaians used Africa magic( juju) to play football. Bet me what happened to Indians football team in 80s, will happen to ghana ugly juju stars . Liberia winining ur juju black 2- 0 is the sign of the end of the Ghana ugly juju black stars. Fuck off ugly ghanaians, am living ur useless site, back to my offshore work in deep sea. I will check on ur xenophobia site in 3 week time to know if there is anything negative about Nigerians in ur useless site. Adieu Essien, sorry chelsea don’t need ur ugly ass in chelsea beach again.
The way u ar talking completely shows dat u are the highly uncilived soul ever to live on earth
Guys jst comment nd stop d insult. U guys nid 2 knw dat essien wil nt b d essien we use 2 knw period.
1 Nigeria manager in charge of first team I ca’nt remember his name and the coach were the cause to deliberately frustrate Essien, now he succeeded to bring in another Nigeria Moses we live to see how it will end for them.a player who cannot score a goal,a player who cannot give a pass to a striker to make a goal best only for kick back passes. I challenge u dat new coach to arrive in Chelsea 2day Mikel is finish
Best coach with best team in the world today go in for Essien immediately,despite he has not play competitive game for long time he prove his class Real M. nt to compare …
@Osama,that Nigerian is called Micheal Emenalo & he is the Technical Director of Chelsea.He convinced Abramovich to give the coaching job to Di Matteo so now Di Matteo is his puppet.He does as he says.I scratch your back,make you scatch my back.They are gradually bringing Chelsea down.so so 419.Mourinho knows this so that was why he came for Essien.
419 Nigerians and useless zambians who carries a lot of shit in their belly will never stop fooling.where on earth shd u compare Essien with Mikel.These guys are friends and u pple are here advertizing ur ignorance.fire burn u all
Oh I now understand why all the African players left.They are turning Chelsea a damping site for their SUPER CHICKEN players.This kind of Nepotism will bring Chelsea down just like their super eagles.no wonder they were hammered by a Europa team Athletico Madrid 4-1.
africa africa day we never len,the same mistake was made in real madrid and man city,why mikel own is now different,we black are even wost then white, makeing racist to ourself,because this we definitely we bring hatred to ourself oneday,because we dont know where and when we will need help from each other, pls and pls i think u guys should just stop this insult for god sake
HO!OH ASEM B3 D3 BI IDON START OOOOOOOOOO!WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND.
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Ghanaians called Nigeria 419, Zambia useless, As a kenyan citizen who have traveled 27 Africa countries, i know Ghanaians as bitter, secreative, sentimental, juju people. I have met alot of Africans but ghanaians are the most unhappy people on earth, always talk negative things about other Africans, why? Zambias are the most friendly people i have ever met in Africa, Nigerians are the happiest, genarous, open minded people in Africa. Black South Africans and Ghanaians are the worst xenophobia and unhappy people in Africa. I will choose useless Zambians and 419 Nigerians than Hypocrites and unhappy ghanaians. Because the useless Zambians, 419 Nigerians and Poor Malawians are better than the good Ghanaians.
U ghanaians Hate Mikel Obi so much because of Essien but the rest of Africans love Mikel so much especially our Zambia because he is cute babe. Ghana man is not the owner of chelsea, nor coach, Ghana man is not even in Chelsea management board. But Micheal Emenuro, a Nigerian man is the second boss of Chelsea Fc, that to show u that Nigerians are handworking, positive minded people. Very soon u bitter Ghanaians will start hating chelsea new signed Victor Moses, just because his from Nigeria. Him who God favour, haters and enemies are nothing but poo bullshit, like unhappy ghanaians
These zambiams,instead of you thinking about how to get circumcised,you are here insulting ghanaians!!..I wonder what you people will do if the whole of zambia population is circumcised!!..I wonder how 99% of people in a country are uncicumcised!!!
zambians and nigerians are fools exploring every country in Africa for their greed, both are not good in sports especially soccer where they both are mediocre. damn shit zambia and nigeria cos they are just average in football and nobody knows them as compared to ghana, ugly foolish criminals from nigeria with ignorant zambians
zambians are fucking making noice cos of stroke of luck they got winning something ghana had won over and over again in 100 years ever since CAF started this competition, so why would nigerians and zambians compare themselves with ghana when it comes to soccer competitions, i still wonder about this shit? they all know the shit and nothing else cos ghana is way and far ahead of both nigeria and zambia as far as i know.
Why U ghanaians always jealous and says negative things about Other Africans, or compare urselves to other Africans, where u ghanaians are nothing but uncivilizes noise makers. In Africa, the football legend we have is Judge Oppoah Wah, he is the only African that have won World footballer of the year. And his from Liberia. South Africa is the first Africa country to host World cup tournament. The current Richest man in Africa is a Nigerian, Alhaji Aliko Dangote. The first woman to be World Bank Director is Nigerian, Ngozi Okojo Iwela. Egypt won the highest gold medal in Africa cup of nation. The father of modern literature is a Nigerian, Chinue Achebe, his Novel,Things Fall Apart, have been translate in 65 international languages. The father of internet that u ghanaians are using to insult people, is a Nigerian man, Philip Emegwalli. The second Film industry in the world, is Nollywood, nigeria film industry. The first Africa man to win Nobel Prize, is a Nigerian, professor Wole Soyinka. The best comedians in Africa, are Nigerians. The best Musicians in Africa are Nigerians. Kenyans and Ethiopians made Africa proud in Olmypics. Boswana, Malawi and Cape Varde are the peaceful country in Africa. Now tell me, apart from Kofi Annan who was former UN sec because of politice, is’t any other ghanaian well know in the world. So ghanaians should fuckoff, We Africans, know who is who in Africa.
Did you say “Judge Oppoah wah” ?
You know next to nothing
apart from Kofi Annan the other well known Ghanaian is your mother!!!. GBEMI!
apart from Kofi Annan the other well known Ghanaian is your morrda!!!
kenyagirl know how to talk ok else you gonn marry an uncivilised ghanaian and we all dont want any girl like you wif our surnames….dont want to even imagine it, daaaaaaaaaamn!!!
There is nothing good that can come out of this dusty country called gold coast except insults period.