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Plus someone needs to tell Dave Whelan to stop talking says KADEEM SIMMONDS

Dave Whelan. Mario Balotelli. If you didn’t know any better, you would think you were watching the latest dumb and dumber movie.

I wrote about Whelan last week, not expecting him to make matters worse for himself but he has. While apologising to the Jewish community after making racist comments towards them, he goes on to tell the Jewish newspaper he was giving an interview to that he used to call Chinese people “chingalings.”

What I can’t believe is that he had no idea that he was offending the Chinese community and it proves my point that he needs to be re-educated sooner rather than later.

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