One serious stumbling block for the Ricketts – Griffin bid could be a controversy that Joe Rickets was involved in in 2019.
The 80 year old was forced to apologise to emails he sent in which he said “ Muslims are naturally my ( our enemy )
Telegraph Sport asked the Ricketts camp for comment over the historical anti – Muslim emails.
Confirmations of the Ricketts bid saw stories of emails shared widely online between Chelsea supporters on Wednesday, amid concerns, among other things, that the club have a number of Muslim players including Star players N’Golo Kante and Antonio Rudiger.
The fact that the Ricketts Family and Raine already work so closely together could well result in accusations of a conflict of interest existing within the bidding process.
