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Hello, I'm Matthew Price.

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4.

Every day we ask one big question about one big story.

Today, what's Chelsea doing about racism? As we were recording the interview for this episode I started to realize that

actually this is less about what one football club or one sport for that matter

can do or should do it's more about whether big brands in general and the people who run

them are willing and able to use their influence and money to do what's right. The

person we interviewed is not one of the footballers who's been racially abused,

it's not one of the many fans who are disgusted by the racist or anti-Semitic or homophobic

language that you can hear in stands across the country.

Instead I went to Stanford Bridge to speak to Bruce Buck, the Chelsea Chairman.

Chelsea has a bad reputation for anti-semitism and racism among its fans.

Just this season you've had Man Cities Rahim Sterling who was racially abused as he took a corner

at Stanford Bridge at a Chelsea game in Hungary, some fans shouted anti-Semitic chance.

And before the game, there were supporters pictured with a flag with a Nazi symbol on it. Now after that Bruce Buck wrote a letter

to fans condemning the actions of what he called a deeply unpleasant but vocal

minority which refuses to join us in the 21st century.

And Chelsea have been trying to sort this out.

The club's owner, Roman Abramovich, whose Jewish has personally invested some of his multi-billion into a load of initiatives.

A few hours after I was at the ground, the club were holding a big fundraiser for a new gallery at the Imperial

War Museum in London London which is going to

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