A Sidcup man has been banned from football matches for three years for his involvement in the Paris Metro race row.

Video footage emerged earlier this year showing Frenchman Souleymane Sylla being repeatedly pushed off a Metro train in Paris as Chelsea supporters sang "we're racist, we're racist and that's the way we like it".

Jordan Munday, 20, of Ellenborough Road, is said to have joined in the racist chanting, although he insisted he was just "breathing".

He was one of four defendants to deny any wrongdoing at a hearing at Stratford Magistrates' Court.

Today he was banned from football matches for three years.

The court heard he had earlier "fronted up" a man who was walking through Paris, pushing him twice before being told to calm down by police.

Violence flared as Chelsea fans were in the French capital to watch the west London club's Champions League match against Paris St Germain on February 17.

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Left to right: Jordan Munday, William Simpson, Richard Barklie and Joshua Parsons. Photo: PA

That evening a gang of around 150 Chelsea supporters had roamed through Paris, some lighting flares as they chanted, while others clambered on cars.

District Judge Gareth Branston told the court: "This was an abhorrent, nasty, offensive, arrogant and utterly unacceptable behaviour and cannot be allowed in modern, civilised society.

"It must be stamped out."

Richard Barklie, 50, a director with the World Human Rights Forum, admitted twice pushing Mr Sylla - but blamed the Parisian for using "aggression" and shouting as he tried to board.

But Judge Branston said Barklie joined in the racist chanting of "John Terry is a racist and that's the way we like it".

And he said the former policeman "proved to be a menace" and had "demonstrated aggressive, disorderly conduct".

He was banned for five years.

Former finance worker Josh Parsons, 20, from Dorking, Surrey, was also banned for five years.

The judge said, along with Barklie, Parsons played a leading role in the racist abuse and pushing Mr Sylla off and "sang the chant glorifying racism".

He said Parsons displayed "aggressive and disorderly conduct as part of a pack of Chelsea fans".

Parsons, who used to work for a finance company in Mayfair, had also leaned out of the train and shouted "where were you in World War Two?" and "F*** the IRA". 

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William Simpson, of Ashford, Surrey, who also played a part in pushing Mr Sylla off the train, was banned for five years.

He has been arrested twice before for race-connected crimes, including once allegedly calling a taxi driver a "f****** Paki".

A fifth man, Dean Callis, 32, of Islington, north London, earlier received a five-year banning order.