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Anelka's quenelle

I reckon Anelka would be best to just admit the charge but stick with the ignorance defence as mitigation, that way he might only get the 5 match ban. If he does choose to fight his corner I can see him getting a similar punishment to Suarez.

West Brom's handling of the situation is also looking increasingly questionable.
 
Teaboy said:
I reckon Anelka would be best to just admit the charge but stick with the ignorance defence as mitigation, that way he might only get the 5 match ban. If he does choose to fight his corner I can see him getting a similar punishment to Suarez.

West Brom's handling of the situation is also looking increasingly questionable.
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If there's anything remotely ideological about his use of the gesture, he might decide to brazen it out.
 
cesare said:
If there's anything remotely ideological about his use of the gesture, he might decide to brazen it out.
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Be interesting to see him mounting a 'politics of the banlieue' in front of the FA suits. :eek:
He hasn't got much room to maneuvre though - think he/his agent said something along the lines of 'it was just for my mate (the comedian)' as his initial defence. In terms of a ban, he's fucked, just a case of which path he heads down en route.
 
Also just had a Facebook run in over this Anelka, complete with statements like "The Jews running false flag operations", other highlights include "NWO", "Secret Elites" and oh yeah "The yids can shut up, Arabs are Semites".
 
But according to the mutual friend who facilitated this run in on his wall, it's okay cause "Andy is a Semite, child of Hungarian and Palestinian parents". Yeah cause who has ever heard of anti Semitism come from such rootz. Jesus.
 
revol68 said:
Cursing the queen and pope, good lad and a perfect illustration why left liberals call for more hate speech legislation is the most counter productive shit.
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We used to noise up the loyalists at the Manchester Martyrs March by chanting "I-I-IRA.... fuck the pope and the UDA".

It also caused one or two interesting interactions with one or two Glaswegian comrades in the Republican flute bands alliance...

Agree whole-heartedly about the kid from Partick. Fair play to him for going 'not guilty'. Had he been intimidated into pleading 'guilty' it would have set a ridiculous precedent.
 
LiamO said:
far better for revol to stay 'fb friends' and argue his corner to that particular audience, I would have thought
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Maybe, Liam, maybe. Personally though, I'd probably banhammer them if they kept coming out w/the same nonsense repeatedly. Just me own view, like.
 
Favelado said:
Suárez is generally a cheat and a twat but in South American culture negrito/rubio/moreno etc are used by everyone all the time to talk to each other. The way that covered in the UK was complete bullshit. Whether Suárez was using plausible deniability as a way of winding up Evra, and also whether you think you can transport South American culture into an Anglo-Saxon environment and pretend it's fine are different things completely. But yeah, calling people "negrito", "moreno" or a number of other words to describe someone's appearance is fine in those cultures. I have an acquaintance who insists on being called "la morena" or la "morenaza" even though I've asked for her real name. How a situation emerged where some nicknames are about skin colour while white people's tend to be about hair colour is a moot point however; one that might well be racist at its root. Sorry, as I'm sure this is old ground.

The quenelle is an anti-semitic gesture invented by an anti-semite occasionally used for other purposes. It's much more clear-cut. Its use can never be considered wholly innocent.
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It wasn't just that. He told evra that he don't shake hands with black people. Am I mistaken?
 
The mutual friend I'll keep, he was saying the fucked up shit, just defending his mate. Don't see the point in banning anyone but the biggest shit heaps.
 
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