A really interesting short article on Avram Grant, his family and the Holocaust from the Jewish Chronicle

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...targeted by antisemitic chants from some Chelsea fans...

What the...?!

What a good article, thanks for posting.

Not sure I buy into the whole 'he doesn't speak Russian' though. Unless he and RA speak another language all together, of course. But they seem to chat a lot and an interpreter is never mentioned.

Thanks for posting that.

Not sure I buy the fact he doesn't speak Russian either.

Race and politics have no place in football in my view.

Normally when somebody makes something up it is because they have something to gain from it. I'm not sure I can see what Avram's father or the Jewish chronicle has to gain by making up he doesn't speak Russian.

Very interesting article, good find Superdan. Nice to get a bit of insight into the man from somebody who actually knows him rather than people who have an axe to grind.

Not sure I buy into the whole 'he doesn't speak Russian' though. Unless he and RA speak another language all together, of course. But they seem to chat a lot and an interpreter is never mentioned.

Perhaps they speak y*ddish.

I would imagine they both speak pretty decent English!! Pretty sure Abramovich doesn't speak Hebrew and there's no way Grant would speak y*ddish if his mum was Iraqi (it's a European language!)

Despite the anti Grant chants at the bridge I've not heard any anti-semitic chants - I think that was the journalist going a bit over the top, unnecessary in the article.