Racism - Mod Note on 1st Post - Read before posting.

so many glaring inconsistencies, internal contradictions, waffle, self-justifying speculation and dogmatic assertions based on hearsay on that document it's unreal - if Liverpool take their case to any court of substance they'll destroy the FA but whether it's in their interests to do that is another thing

let's start with a key one, the report states that when Evra who started the whole confrontation said "concha de tu hermana" to Suarez they conveniently decided that that Spanish phrase wasn't so bad and meant something like "effing hell" (my hole that's what it means - it's far more personal and derogatory than that) but then of course Suarez's whole negro/negrito thing is not understoon as "black mate/black pal" but our wise FA heads decide that is bad, bad, bad all of course based on the words/reaction of poor old sensitive soul Evra who takes everything to heart from being receiving a booking to losing the toin coss, it's all because he is black and the officials/opposition are conspiring against him

they also choose to ignore Evra's South American jibe yet warn players against referring to nationality

they accept the words of witnesses who support their case, but they dismiss the words of those who don't

Kuyt says that he may have heard Suarez uttering something about Evra being black and they take it on board, Kuyt says that he is absolutely certain that Evra said to the referee that he is only being booked coz he is black and it's glossed over

they say Suarez is an unreliable witness and then say there are mitigating circumstances, trivial little stuff like he's new to the game, the country, the league and the language.......then they say that Evra is and I quote "for the most part, consistent in his testimony" - what kind of pathetic semantic games are these, you are either consistent or not, consistent for the most part is typical paradoxical bs from this report - a report that Senator Joseph McCarthy would have been proud of

Innocent until proven guilty nah, this kangaroo court of three men with links to the complainant have decided that we think his story is more likely to be true than yours and therefore you are going down, we have no real evidence, it's all circumstantial, speculative stuff but there you go, at least people will know we are coming down hard on racism...and justice too.

The way the report was written and the threadbare findings within it suggest Liverpool could destroy this case in any reputable court "Do you see the angry look on Suarez's face and how he pinched Evra there, that's our case and that's why he was convicted and that's why everything Evra said was true and Suarez is a naughty naughty boy" - laughable agenda-driven mindboggingly insubstantial stuff


having said all that, we just don't know what was said, it's one man word against another.....the words Suarez used and the context within which he used them are key here and it's an incredibly complex thing to legislate over (hence why I think Liverpool could turn this over quite easily) and as much as I doubt the integrity of Evra it was foolish of Suarez to get involved in the dispute and to refer to colour, naive at best and willfully racist abuse at worse and of course Evra got on the moral high ground and accused Suarez of all sorts (wrongfully saying he was called "******", wrongfully saying the word was said 10 times - of course the panel think these utterances have no affect on Evra's repute)

all in all, a warning to Suarez to be careful with his future behaviour and a four match ban maximum for referencing a person's colour during an on-field dispute regardless of culteral context and linguistic complexities would have been a far fairer judgement with perhaps 2 of those four games suspended dependent on future behaviour/apology/donation to charity etc so effectively a 2 game ban and we move on from the misunderstanding

Instead the clueless morons at the FA have gone for the jugular of the easy foreign target (being guilty of xenophobia themselves, they don't see the irony) and created this almighty mess polarising all sides and creating extremes and radicals out of all of us - well done guys, great job!