Pontus Jansson: "I feel enormous shame"

It was at the end of May that it emerged that MFF's star defender was involved in a preliminary investigation where 14 people were suspected of violent rioting.

Pontus Jansson was never suspected of a crime, but the fact that he was part of a chat group with football hooligans led Malmö FF to remove him as team captain.

Pontus Jansson describes the past few months as a nightmare, regrets not leaving the chat group earlier, and feels ashamed that he did not choose to take a stand and mark his distance from anti-Semitism.

That's what I'm most ashamed of in all of this. I'm ashamed and regret enormously that I didn't distance myself from these guys, he says.

A Jewish man contacted me, who has a Jewish wife and Jewish children. They didn't feel safe going to Malmö FF's matches. I almost started crying. The shame I felt then was enormous, he says.