Premier League club settles case with four former youth playersPlayers alleged they were abused by two coaches in the 1990sChelsea have settled a high court case brought by four former youth-team players over alleged historical racist abuse. The men had sought damages for personal injury and loss over claims they were “subjected to a barrage of disgracefully offensive racist abuse” from two members of the
Premier League club’s youth coaching staff in the 1990s.
Lawyers for the men claimed
Chelsea were “vicariously liable” for abuse allegedly committed when they were aged between 14 and 18. It was also alleged in court documents that one coach “would accompany that verbal abuse with physical assaults of a sexual nature”.