There is a long history of middle-class professionals indulging in soccer hooliganism at the weekends. But by any standard Barklie, who sources say is a season ticket holder at Stamford Bridge, leads an extraordinary double life.
Having left the police force in Northern Ireland he studied law and became a campaigner for human rights around the world.
He is a director of the World Human Rights Forum, a global network of campaigners, and has worked with organisations who help victims of the Troubles.
Barklie can be seen online in a video taken in March 2013 that is in stark contrast to his Paris metro viral.
In it, he addresses a session of the World Human Rights Conference being held in Kerala, India. The man at the centre of the Chelsea race storm quotes the teachings of Martin Luther King and Gandhi in an appeal for racial tolerance.
He preaches to an Asian gathering: “We must all keep working with a sense of compassion for each other in our hearts, with a sense of justice and equality we should banish from our hearts and minds prejudices of creed, colour, religion and gender. When we do this we will conceive a more harmonious and peaceful society.”