Suarez gets 8 match ban
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ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Yeah, course they did.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
A statement on twitter. And they say the art of investigative journalism is dying.
strung out
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what is it with you attempting to defend racism so much recently?
edit: @maggot
edit: @maggot
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I was struck by how upset he was; if things have got to the point where someone playing football for a living is so very upset at being called a 'black bastard' by one or possobily two people in a crowd, things have moved on somewhat in the past 20-30 years.
I was stunned at how he reacted - i was at the other end and didn't find out until after the match what had happened, but he's been with us since August and i've never once seen him lose his temper, never mind get that worked up. As you say, it's a sign of progress that he was so shocked and angry at what was said, which makes some of the comments people have made about him over-reacting or being soft or 'he must hear stuff like that every week' all the more annoying. How would they like to have reacted? Have we not moved on from the days when players were expected to just put up with it? Should he have jumped into the crowd and twatted the bloke? And as for the snidey comments about him crying and how he should 'man up'....watch the video. He doesn't go into a corner and blub like a little girl. He's a young lad, playing in the biggest game of his life so far, probably quite frustrated with how the game's gone, someone's (allegedly) shouted racist abuse at him (which he quite possibly hasn't experienced during a match before), he's angrily confronted the fan, then gone to the referee, who appears to tell him to calm down, he's probably thought he's not being taken seriously and he's lost it.
As an Oldham fan it was horrible to see one of our players being subjected to that, but as someone from Liverpool it's equally horrible seeing some people using this as a stick to beat Liverpool with. It was one, maybe two dickheads out of 38,000. Good on the Liverpool fans who presumably spoke to the police and identified the bloke who's been arrested.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
How can you be so sure what was said? Black and Manc sound very similar especially in the middle of a noisy crowd.
I'm not trying to defend racism. I'm just saying we don't know for sure that it was racist. At the moment it's just one eyewitnesses word against anothers.
If it turns out to be racist - of course I won't defend it and hope he gets charged.
sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
One guy on twitter vs several Liverpool fan eyewitnesses who spoke to stewards/police. I know who I'd be inclined to believe.
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
No, even straight after the game there was two eye-witnesses who said it was 'black bastard'.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
This time it's the northwest pronunciation experts that are going to make a few quid at the trial. I used to think it was agents who were the ultimate leeches on football, not its the fat cat linguists.
Refused as fuck
"ethnic pakistani tosser"
Liverpool's statement completely at odds with their actions re: Suarez. So if you don't have a £20 million contract clearly you do walk alone.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Downing in trouble as well now. Really not a good couple of weeks to be working in the liverpoll spin/pr department.
dave
dave
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
PlaidDragon
We don't need money to have a good time
Ffs can't everyone leave the fan alone who shouted at Adeyemi?! He's from a street in Liverpool where 'black bastard' is a friendly greeting. It's a cultural thing.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Worth a read this.
Warning: you'll probably go
The comments are worth looking at too; most people agree with him.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2012/02/us-and-them-time-to-pull-up-the-drawbridge/
Warning: you'll probably go
The comments are worth looking at too; most people agree with him.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2012/02/us-and-them-time-to-pull-up-the-drawbridge/
TruXta
tired
Worth a read this.
Warning: you'll probably go
The comments are worth looking at too; most people agree with him.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2012/02/us-and-them-time-to-pull-up-the-drawbridge/
Do you think he's representative of LFC supporters?
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I wasn't claiming that but it does seem to be an established fan site and his readers were in agreement.
Also, how do you know that all this ant-Standard Chartered stuff is not a view shared by many at Anfield?
TruXta
tired
Two words: selection bias.
revol68
what, fucking what?
very true but I think that special deluded self pitying characteristic soo defining of Liverpool fans (and their self aggrandising shite about "Best supporters in the world") has produced the perfect crucible for this kind of event.
TruXta
tired
Again, selection bias. Are your LFC supporting mates deluded and the rest?
revol68
what, fucking what?
no but they have laughed about the stereotype and admit there is some truth in it, just as there is a truth in the Man United fans are arrogant claim or Arsenal are whiney soft twats. Sure they are inherently broad-strokes but they paint something of a discernible truth.
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
What about some of those comments after the article?! There's not enough facepalms in the world for some of the deluded fuckwittery writ large on that page.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I quite enjoy reading RAWK from time to time and (or because) it's stuffed full of that sort of nonsense. I don't think it's representative of Liverpool fans as such, it's what happens when you take a few myths (the Liverpool way/King Kenny/Alex Ferguson controls everything) and then create an environment where they're totally unquestionable. Anyone even suggesting there was a vague possibility that Suarez might actually have done it would be called a Manc WUM and probably banned within seconds on there. So people encourage each other until you get the sort of idiocy that makes it so entertaining.
Talking about Liverpool fans as a whole I don't see how they can be that different to anyone else - they come from all over the place and
Talking about Liverpool fans as a whole I don't see how they can be that different to anyone else - they come from all over the place and
binka
!!!!!!!!!
rawk is fucking hillarious tbf
TruXta
tired
What of them? They're written by morons. Doesn't make them representative of most LFC fans.
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