Group of Chelsea fans banned from football matches for 5 years after Paris subway incident

Four Chelsea fans are banned from attending football matches for up to five years after preventing a black man from entering a train in the Paris subway in February and subjecting him to racist chants.

Three of the men - Richard Barklie, Joshua Parsons and William Simpson - were banned from attending matches at home or away for five years by the Stratford Magistrates' Court, according to the BBC.

Jordan Munday was given a three-year ban under the same conditions.

"Racist hatred was displayed by Chelsea fans on the Paris Metro that evening," District Judge Gareth Branston said of the Feb. 17 incident, adding that it "tarnished the reputation of English football in Europe."

The four men were involved in the infamous video which emerged the day after the match. The video showed a group of Chelsea fans denying Souleymane Sylla access to the subway car as they chanted, "We're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it."

In an attempt to smooth things over, Chelsea invited the Frenchman to London for the return leg of its Champions League encounter with Paris Saint-Germain. Sylla turned them down.