After scoring his third goal at Wolves, Noni Madueke, sporting the blue stripe of Chelsea, smiles as he tosses the ball into the air with his right hand
Only hours after insulting the city, Noni Madueke was granted freedom from Wolverhampton.
Chelsea defeated Wolves 6-2 at Molineux on Sunday, giving the winger all the room he needed to score a 15-minute hat-trick.
It came after Madueke, who has 991,000 followers, was jeered from the start by the home fans following an Instagram post on Saturday in which he offensively mocked the city.
He then scored three second-half goals to seal Enzo Maresca’s first Premier League victory as Chelsea boss.
Madueke, 22, shared his location as Wolverhampton in the post but quickly deleted it and used his post-match interview to apologise.
The England Under-21 international said, “I just want to apologise to everyone that I might have offended. It is just a human mistake, an accident. It wasn’t meant to be out on my socials like that. I’m sure Wolverhampton is a nice town and I’m sorry.
“It was a mistake and you learn from those things. Hopefully nothing like that happens again.
“In terms of the boos, I expected it but it is part of the game. You have to be able to play under that sort of pressure.”
