http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/leicester-city-racist-orgy-video-5794654 Leicester City budding stars, including boss Nigel Pearson's son, were filmed taking part in a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused in Bangkok It was supposed to be a Premier League club’s end-of-season tour to promote goodwill in the homeland of its proud Thai billionaire owners. But three of Leicester City’s budding stars blew that apart with a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused soon after the team arrived in Bangkok. As team boss Nigel Pearson prepared for a week of helping to cement relationships between the UK and Thailand and boosting his club’s growing Far East fan base, his defender son James, 21, and pals Tom Hopper, a striker, and goalkeeper Adam Smith, 22, had other ideas. They were busy filming three Thai girls committing depraved sex acts with them in a hotel room. The swaggering trio then shared the explicit videos with friends back in the UK in which one of the players can be heard calling a woman a “slit eye” while his mates snigger at the racist jibe. The girls taking part in the orgy were also taunted as “minging” while the naked players – all on the fringe of Leicester’s first team – make other sickening comments about them too explicit to be printed here. Concerned officials at Leicester City were made aware of the scandal. It is bound to infuriate and embarrass father and son owners Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha who have ploughed millions into establishing the Midlands side as a Premier League outfit after taking over the club five years ago. And it will shock fans still celebrating their team’s miracle survival in a nail-biting relegation battle. One video begins with the three players stripped naked and cheering as they carry out sex acts with the women. Hopper then appears to use a mobile phone to film them having group sex together. Laughing and doing a running commentary over the footage, he is heard saying: “Go on that love” before pouring out a string of abuse. Afterwards the three watch the women indulging in lesbian sex acts. Filming them amid laughter, one of the men is heard off-camera saying: “Come on ... you slit-eye.” In another clip Hopper, 22, cruelly tells one of the women she is “f***ing minging… an absolute one out of 10”. Pearson or Smith is then heard off-camera shouting: “Oi Hops, I’ll swap you.” The video ends with Hopper and Pearson high-fiving each other as if celebrating a goal while romping with two of the women. Days later, the video clips were shared by at least one of the players with friends in the UK who then passed them on. The footage heaps shame on a club which has tried to take a strong stance against racism. Manager Pearson, 51, is an outspoken campaigner and a patron of football’s Kick It Out scheme. The players’ appalling antics with the Thai women could also damage the club’s “strategic, international partnership” with the Tourism Authority of Thailand which had been renewed for a third season. Its Amazing Thailand branding has appeared on the back of team shirts for the last two years. The club’s CEO Susan Whelan has said of the partnership: “We’re absolutely thrilled to continue to work with the Tourism Authority of Thailand. “Their support in the last two years has been vital in helping us promote Leicester City to a Thai audience and in reaching our goals closer to home. “It is important to us that we are able to build on existing relationships we have developed with key sponsors.” The Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Thawatchai Arunyik, heaped glowing praise on the club at the time, saying: “The last two years working with Leicester City have been an amazing adventure, filled with aspiration, incredible people and some wonderful memories. “We are very proud to be working with Leicester City and its supporters, who have embraced the Club’s increasingly strong association with Thailand and given the nation a Premier League club its people can take to their hearts.” The Srivaddhanaprabhas – owners of Thailand’s travel giant King Power International – took over the club in 2010. They renamed the ground the King Power Stadium. Since then, players, management and backroom staff have enjoyed adulation from the Thai public on official end-of-season visits designed to raise the club’s profile there. At the end of the Premier League season last week squad players shared a £5million bonus for avoiding the drop into the Championship. Boss Pearson praised the team, saying: “I think the key thing for us, even in our darkest moments, and there have been a few, is that the players have continued to support each other and believe in their own ability. “That’s difficult when people are questioning your integrity.” Now the integrity of his son and pals Hopper and Smith – who have all been loaned to other clubs for some of last season – is under the microscope for other very different reasons. A spokesman for Leicester City said the club would not be making any comment. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/leicester-city-racist-orgy-video-5794654
****ing ostriches. In all seriousness, I thought this was a banger thread till I opened it! Makes it very difficult with it being his son and Pearson, being a man of strong values, I hope doesn't resign or do anything silly in the press to react.
I think they will be sacked now. Only thing that could make things difficult is one of them is Nigel's son The owners will not accept that and Nigel will have to show the owners he wont tolerate that regardless of who it was All 3 players have rather swiftly deleted their twitter accounts
Absolute scumbags, this epitomises everything wrong about the modern day footballer, get rid straight away, they're not fit to put on our glorious shirt again!!!!!!!!
If consensual sex between adults was a sackable offence, then nobody would have been working in the 1970s. One comment of racism needs dealing with. Three accounts of sheer stupidity need a cuff round the ear. Sharing the video shows a major fail of grey matter. Not the best example of respect that our owners hold so dearly.
For the sake of the clubs relationships with the owners all 3 of these lads have to be sacked and we must act before it does the club anymore harm.
The worst thing they've done is call someone "slit-eye" and only one of them has done that. They're idiots for doing it. But it's hardly sackable for all 3. Trouble is everyone is so desperate to get likes and retweets that they do stupid stuff and record it.
They need sacking full stop. Malaga was enough of an embarrassment for the club & now this. Why do these sportsman ruin some thing that I would love to be able to do ? It´ll be hard for NP to look the owners in the eye I should imagine. All at LCFC should be bending over backwards to be friendly to these ppl, they are our owners, our saviours & a good portion are our fans these days aswell.
Slightly misleading headline - 'premier league Stars' ? Like saying I'm a 5 star Michelin chef as I cooked toast for breakfast today, those three were nowhere near the first team for the simple fact they aren't good enough, Pearson jnr is only here because his dad's the manager!
That is a good point though - yes the video isnt ideal but at the end of the day it is consentual sex. Its the comments which are really bad.
More money then sense and no respect, very surprised that one his Pearson jnr! If they haven't already been, they must be sent home at once and await there fate.
I completely agree. Forget it was consentual they completely disrespected every Thai person and the fact one of them was the managers son makes it worse If Nigel keeps them on it might make people think they have got away with it because its his son. Last thing we need is any friction between Nigel and the owners The owners have been brilliant to us since day 1 and dont deserve to be disrespected like this. Sack the lot
... think we need a bit of perspective here ... 3 young, demonstrably immature, guys in arguably what is the sex capital of the world availing themselves of the local amenities... whilst I'm not conversant with local law I doubt they have committed any 'crime' ... ... the comments they have allegedly made were crass, moronic and disrespectful but did they stem from 'racism' or silly little boys taking advantage of their friends not understanding English to get an additional laugh from their mates ... Stupid,ignorant, ill judged and embarrassing for sure ... but proof that we have inherent rascists at the club?
But with one of them being the managers son put us on dangerous ground IMO. If we keep them the last thing we need is the owners thinking they have got away with one because of Pearson was letting his son off Thailand has a big respect culture and these quite clearly disrespected them and embarrassed our club
"slit eyes" was racist but the others werent but were were derogatery. It's ok saying 'sack them', and im not saying i dont agree, but remember that is a legal process and you need ground to do it - apart from the racist comment is there legal grounds? Probably but i dont know.
In football you can cancel contracts and pay them off abit or if you think you have valid grounds you can sack them outright
I think one of the reasons Peo got rid of Bullard was for ordering a pros to one of his team mates room on a pre season tour. As well as a host of other things mind. Actually going threes up whilst filming it and making offensive comments is taking it to the next level. I think they've got to go but let's be honest, you won't even notice they've gone judging by the comments on here. It'll do more harm than good by keeping them. It's a no brainer.
It beats me why people film these things and then share them. Only one way its going to go from there. I think some deep breaths needed and then some clear thinking time. Anything illegal - no. unsavory - maybe. Embarrassing for the club - yes. Will it be news in the next week, hopefully not. Currently its three lads having fun with other consenting adults with some dubious comments. Do they make us wince, yes. Are they sackable offences, like all of us all depends on employment contracts. Some serious groveling by club officials and the players concerned to the owners and tournament organisers and that maybe the end of it.
