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The Chelsea fan who abused Raheem Sterling has previously defended racist behaviour on social media.

Colin Wing, 60, was revealed as the supporter who hurled insults at the Manchester City forward during Chelsea's 2-0 win on Sunday.

The dad-of-two insists he did make racist remarks and that he actually shouted "Manc c***" at the England international.

He has since lost his job and his Stamford Bridge season ticket.

But a Facebook post from three years ago reveals he defended Blues fans who pushed a black man off a Metro in France before a Champons League match.

Mr Wing wrote: "So, it's not illegal to be racist, no one knows if this man was even singing the song, no-one knows if he even laid a finger on the black man, but the majority here are happy to see him sacked for being on a train.

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"What a strange country we live in nowadays when the baying mobs exercise trial by YouTube to bypass all sense of justice."

In 2015, Souleymane Sylla, a French-Mauritian, was repeatedly pushed backwards off a carriage by a group of Chelsea supporters amid chants of "we're racist, we're racist, and that's the way we like it".

All of the fans identified were give lifetime bans from Stamford Bridge and later given suspended prison sentences.

Mr Wing apologised for his actions on Monday, saying: "I’m deeply ashamed by my own behaviour and I feel really bad. But I didn’t call him a black c***, I called him a Manc c***.

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“I’ve been going to Chelsea for 50 years now and, because of where I sit, I’m picked up on the camera most weeks. If I had a history of saying this sort of thing I would’ve been caught by now.

“Nobody around me said they heard anything. I want to apologise unreservedly to Raheem and hope he can be a better man than I am by accepting it.

“I offer him an unreserved apology. Even if it wasn’t racist, it’s not right what I said. Even the swearing is bad – but I got carried away.

“I was completely out of order, but I’ve lost my job and my season ticket now so everybody’s got what they wanted. So why can’t they leave me alone?”