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A 21-year-old autobus operator has been sacked aft wearing a Liverpool garment portion driving a obstruction replacement autobus that was surrounded by jubilant Chelsea fans pursuing their 2–1 triumph implicit the Reds.
Isaac, who declined to springiness his past name, said helium had nary thought his way would walk Stamford Bridge erstwhile helium near for enactment connected Saturday.
“The archetypal cleanable T-shirt I had was a Liverpool one,” helium told TalkTV. “I realised I was going to spell past Chelsea and past I saw the Chelsea fans extracurricular the stadium.”
Videos shared online showed fans banging connected the autobus windows and chanting arsenic Isaac sat inside, prompting what his employer, A1 Transport Recruitment, described arsenic “significant disruption and delays.”
He was dismissed connected Monday. “Due to GDPR, we are incapable to remark connected this matter,” the institution said.
Isaac said: “If you spot the video, it looks humorous, but it was scary. They virtually surrounded maine successful the bus. Eventually, the constabulary got them away.”
He criticised Transport for London and Mayor Sadiq Khan, saying: “I don’t spot immoderate attraction successful TfL anymore.
Maybe nether a antithetic politician we could spot amended airy successful TfL. But astatine the moment, there’s nary communal consciousness successful the cognition whatsoever.”
Despite the viral footage, Isaac said helium was not traumatised. “It hasn’t traumatised maine astatine each to beryllium honest. I saw the comic broadside of it erstwhile I was watching the videos but erstwhile I was sitting successful that compartment it wasn’t truthful funny.”
He added that helium plans to permission TfL autobus enactment altogether: “I’m bushed of being a TfL autobus operator… I’m looking to transportation implicit to manager work.”
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