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Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has appealed that the Chelsea fans who were filmed singing a racist song about Mohamed Salah should get a lifetime stadium ban. 

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In a Europa League match, three Chelsea fans were stopped from entering Slavia Prague's stadium after an alleged racist chant about Liverpool's Egypt international Mohamed Salah circulated on social media. 

It has been reported that the fans were apparently chanting "Salah is a bomber" repeatedly. 

Salah, Player of the Year in England last season and winner of the African Footballer of the Year award for the second time in a row in January, is of Muslim faith. 

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Liverpool's boss, in a press conference, said, "It's disgusting." 

He further added, "Another example of something which should not happen. We should not see it as a Chelsea or Liverpool thing."

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"If you do something like that you should not be able to enter a stadium again, from my point of view, for life."

"As a part of the football community, I can say these people should not be involved. Go in each dressing room in the world and they are all sitting there; no one cares where their parents are from."

"Football has a strong voice, and we have to use that voice and show that we all think the same. Things like this should not be allowed to happen again."

In an official statement released on their website, Chelsea said condemned any form of discriminatory behaviour directed towards Salah.

Chelsea will meet Liverpool in a Premier League fixture on April 14. 

Merseyside Police said they were investigating publication of offensive Tweets made in relation to a Liverpool player.