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

willmunny1990 wrote: »

You or your club couldn't get any lower at this stage.:rolleyes:

From a poster who has posted some absolutely horrible stuff about LFC .................

clubberlang12 wrote: »

While i see your point, that does mean Kuyt somewhat back-tracked. He was "certain" he heard Evra say he was being booked for being black yet he says he may have misunderstood what Suarez was saying to him in Dutch. I can understand that not speaking in his native tongue it may have come across different but that was both Kuyt and Comoli who had to say they may have misunderstood him.

I genuinely don't get it. It was a conversation after a match that even the report admits, players can be exhausted after a match, it isn't 100% reliable. Plus a lot of this is recollection. Then you've the language thing.

He was cross examined and asked a simple question, could his statement be open to interpretation? or something like that. If he'd said no, he'd have been too definitive and not being honest.

Kuyt seems to have acted honestly, otherwise he wouldn't have said anything disparaging about Suarez. He could well have misheard Evra, considering De Gea and Kuyt heard nothing with Evra and Suarez beside him, perfectly reasonable.

I'd say, on the balance of probabilities, Kuyt was being honest on both occasions!

Anyway its New Years Eve.

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

So in short Evra has failed to be reprimanded for his use of swear words,accusing the referee of booking him because he is black and threatening to punch an opponent on multiple occasions and Suarez has been banned for using the Spanish word for "Black" either 5,7,8 or ten times.

Evra has suddenly changed from a wholly unreliable witness to a paragon of virtue and Suarez has been branded a racist though both the FA and Evra plus the whole of Uruguay and the spanish speaking parts of the continent of South America disagree.

Jesus Liverpools lawyers are going to have a bloody field day with this mess.

This was found to be completely untrue...

Edit: Did you actually read the report at all? It clearly says that it was found that the term Suarez used would have been deemed offensive/racist in all over Latin America including Uruguay.

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

So in short Evra has failed to be reprimanded for his use of swear words,accusing the referee of booking him because he is black and threatening to punch an opponent on multiple occasions and Suarez has been banned for using the Spanish word for "Black" either 5,7,8 or ten times.

Evra has suddenly changed from a wholly unreliable witness to a paragon of virtue and Suarez has been branded a racist though both the FA and Evra plus the whole of Uruguay and the spanish speaking parts of the continent of South America disagree.

Jesus Liverpools lawyers are going to have a bloody field day with this mess.

Come off it. That reply proves one thing. You have not read the report. The report answers those questions.

Look i am sure Suarez is not proud of what happened but he did wrong and he myst pay the price.
Hopefully he learns from his mistakes and is a better person and a player as a result.

Blatter wrote: »

They can legally call him a racist is what I meant, obviously people can think whatever they like.

The Mirror's headline ''racist'' when he was found guilty would be an example where legally, they were allowed run with that headline.

Yeah, Suarez will no doubt be branded a racist by the vast majority of people, especially seeing as the FA's report vehemently dismissed any possibility of cultural differences being to blame.

The ''racist'' tag is the severe price you pay when you open your mouth and racially abuse someone and are found guilty of it.

Despite Evra not saying he's a racist?

Such is the brain of the football fan and Mirror reader I suppose.