Chelsea football fan jailed for racist and anti-Semitic tweets targeting Spurs fans | UK News

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A Chelsea fan who posted anti-Semitic and racist tweets aimed at Tottenham Hotspur fans has been jailed for eight weeks.

Nathan Blagg had told police his tweets were “boyfriend jokes,” but they included photos of Auschwitz and a man giving a Nazi salute.

He was sentenced on Tuesday after pleading guilty to seven counts of sending offensive messages between September 29 last year and February 5.

Blagg, from Retford, Nottinghamshire, posted on Twitter a photo of the train tracks leading to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz with the message: ‘The spurs are on their way to Auschwitz’, the Magistrates’ Court heard. Westminster.

Another article featured a faked photo of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock holding a microphone saying the same thing.

Other tweets included a photo and video of Nazi salutes, and a post, referring to the German phrase adopted by Adolf Hitler’s party, read: “Sieg Heiling around my living room as we speak.”

Prosecutor David Roberts said the tweets about the Tottenham team were more offensive in the context of “a story of association with the Jewish community.”

The messages were spotted by a West Bromwich fan and investigated by the Chelsea security team, who passed them on to police.

District Judge Michael Hamilton called Blagg’s tweets “heinous and extremely offensive,” adding that only immediate jail time would be appropriate punishment.

The judge said: “Frankly, the content of these messages was despicable.

“References to the Holocaust and other matters can in no way be called jokes.”

Road construction worker Blagg, 21, has withdrawn from Twitter and has been banned from attending football games.

Maeve Thornton, representing Blagg, who lives with his parents, told the court he was “immature”.

She added that he had “taken responsibility for his actions” and that the risk of recidivism was “very low”.

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