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Full credit to Collymore. As I've said, I've been far from his biggest fan in the past but he's really putting himself out to stand up on this one.
its like they were all just waiting for a trigger to let their inner racism out
twats
I find this whole thing a bit repulsive now. I can't see even a glimpse of humour in it any more. Liverpool's stance and the blinkered response of their fans is truly shameful.
This wasn't about Manchester United and Liverpool at all. It was nothing to do with that. This was an individual situation where one person was racially abused."
The Liverpool manager believes the fallout from the complex case will be far-reaching for the FA. "It would be helpful to everyone if someone gave us some guidelines about what you can and cannot say," he argued.
"It would be helpful to everyone if someone gave us some guidelines about what you can and cannot say,"
If you're that fecking ignorant that you really need that, probably best just to keep your gob shut.
(You fecking childish, cretinous, legacy-destroying gimp).
It's not about Manchester United and Liverpool at all. This is an individual situation where one person was racially abused.--Sir Alex Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson says Luis Suárez ban was 'right decision' | Football | The Guardian
Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester United were 'astounded' by Patrice Evra's four-match ban in 2008 for an incident with a Chelsea groundsman but had accepted it. Photograph: Laurent Gillieron/EPA
Sir Alex Ferguson has broken his silence on the Luis Suárez affair, describing the Liverpool striker's eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra as "the right decision" and indicating that the Anfield club should accept the guilty verdict.
Liverpool's vigorous defence of the Uruguayan, including the controversial decision to warm up for their game at Wigan in Suárez T-shirts, has led to widespread criticism throughout the game. Ferguson was not willing to talk about Liverpool's protest statement, in which they described Evra as "not reliable" and called on the Football Association to issue a separate charge against the Manchester United defender, but he made clear that the Premier League champions felt vindicated.
"Our support of Patrice was obvious right from the word go and that's still the same. The matter is over and I think we're satisfied that they [the FA's independent commission] found the right decision. This wasn't about Manchester United and Liverpool at all. It was nothing to do with that. This was an individual situation where one person was racially abused."
Liverpool maintain that was not the case, despite Suárez reportedly admitting using the word "negro", and are now waiting for the commission chairman, Paul Goulding QC, to deliver his full written findings before deciding whether to lodge an appeal.
That risks an even longer ban and Ferguson drew a parallel with the way United reacted when Evra was banned for four matches in 2008 for becoming embroiled in a post-match fight with Sam Bethell, a Chelsea groundsman. The club, he pointed out, had accepted the verdict.
"Patrice got that suspension for the incident down at Chelsea when no one was there, just a groundsman and our fitness coach. He got a four-match ban and we had to wait two weeks for the evidence to come through. We were quite astounded at that. A four-match ban? We thought it was well over the top for a trivial incident. But it happened and there's nothing you can do about it, you know."
The insinuation was that Liverpool should accept Suárez's guilt but there is no sign of that from Anfield, with Kenny Dalglish maintaining he had no regrets over the T-shirt protest and aggressive wording of their statement.
"The club have issued a statement and the players have made their statement both visually and verbally," said Dalglish. "The statement couldn't have caused anybody any trouble. I don't think the players have caused any trouble with the FA either with their statement or by their support with the T-shirts. If we are not in any trouble, we will just leave it at that before we do get into any trouble."
Dalglish said "it might be weeks" before the commission's findings are made public and believes the verdict and the reasons for it should have been released simultaneously. In the vacuum, the Liverpool manager fears opposition crowds will declare open season on Suárez, as was the case at the DW Stadium on Wednesday.
He said: "I wouldn't think it is helpful to anybody that it [the verdict] is done before we have seen the written documents. If that's the way they have always done it then we cannot complain. I wouldn't know because I have never been involved in anything like this before.
"They [the Football Association] run the game; we don't, do we? Whether you agree with it is another matter. In another walk of life, they would have walked away and waited until they had it ready. But this is what happened. I think where they have to be more supportive is the reaction from people – and the antagonism of the crowds – towards Luis. That is the great problem."
The Liverpool manager believes the fallout from the complex case will be far-reaching for the FA. "It would be helpful to everyone if someone gave us some guidelines about what you can and cannot say," he argued. Yet despite his concerns over the hostility towards Suárez, who is also facing an improper conduct charge for allegedly making an offensive gesture towards Fulham supporters at Craven Cottage on 5 December, Dalglish is adamant the 24-year-old can handle the scrutiny.
"Obviously he would be better off without it, but he is a strong enough character and he has handled it very well up to now so I wouldn't expect him to show anything other than total strength. If Luis is fit and well, he will be considered for the matches until such time that he is under sanction."
Ferguson is clearly unimpressed with the lengths to which Liverpool have gone, including Dalglish's decision to wear a Suaárez T-shirt during a television interview on Wednesday. "I don't need to talk about it," he said, before adding pointedly: "I'm happy with how I run my club."
The United manager was asked whether he fears it will worsen the rivalry between the two clubs. "This is the biggest derby game in the country," he replied. "It's never needed anything to light the powder keg; it's always there."
When it comes to crass protest, Kenny's been there, done that... and got the T-shirt
My new T-shirt should be under the Christmas tree. I've asked Santa for one with the silhouette of a Premier League manager on it and the words 'blind', 'dumb' and 'irresponsible' printed underneath.
It's my protest against the protests. My stand against the embarrassing displays of boorishness and the idiotic, infantile statements made by men who are certainly intelligent enough to know better. Men like Kenny Dalglish and Andre Villas-Boas, for instance.
Shamefully, this duo's reaction to racism scandals involving players at their respective clubs has served to demonstrate football stands shoulder-to-shoulder in any campaign to eradicate racism within the game - unless it might inconveniently involve one of their own.
Then it's a witch-hunt, political posturing, a co-ordinated vendetta or the result of some other cockamamie conspiracy theory. And principles that should be enshrined for the greater good of the game are trampled underfoot in the mad rush of tribalism. What on earth were Liverpool Football Club thinking when they traipsed out in those pathetic screen-printed tops in support of Luis Suarez this week?
The Uruguayan had been banned by the Football Association for eight games for calling Patrice Evra a 'little black man' during a squabble on the pitch.
Suarez himself admitted he made the remark, yet argued it would be considered inoffensive in his native South America. So what? Ignorance isn't a justifiable defence and saying 'little black man' is not a purely descriptive phrase, as some at Liverpool have laughably attempted to argue.
It is a remark designed to belittle and demean and, in that context, it is racist language.
Moreover, Suarez hasn't just stepped off a plane from Montevideo. He joined Ajax in the Dutch league in 2007 so has - or should have - a grasp of what is, and what is not, acceptable outside of South America.
The FA's ban is harsh - but at least they sent out a message that these issues will be taken seriously and dealt with accordingly.
We saw Dalglish thinks otherwise. He led the puerile protests, even conducting television interviews in the cheap, rebellious Save Our Suarez clobber. Is this really what Liverpool FC is about - crusading for a footballer's right to call a fellow professional a 'little black man'?
I think not. It was self-interested rabble rousing of the unthinking kind. Liverpool is known as a club with a tradition of conducting itself with dignity, a reputation enhanced by the manner in which it dealt with the traumas of Hillsborough, thanks in no small part to the way Dalglish himself led the way.
But as statements go, this juvenile display was more in keeping with Rick from The Young Ones than an historic, global sporting institution.
Past custodians of Liverpool's image, like former chief executive and boardroom manipulator Peter Robinson, would surely have counselled against what occurred at Anfield, carefully steering the club away from such asinine exhibitionism. The current American owners should have shown some leadership with a quiet word.
As for Dalglish's teenage tweet that Suarez would 'never walk alone', that depends on the audience. If Suarez happens to find himself accompanied by a gaggle of small black men, I'd say he might find himself very much alone.
Liverpool are better than this. I find it hard to believe there were not fans of the club who felt genuine discomfort on seeing the T-shirt parade, or has football become so blindly tribal now that all good sense has been lost?
Best not ask Andre Villas-Boas for an objective view on racism in football. Chelsea have not been so crass as to print off 'JT is Innocent' shirts, but the manager has often been gushingly tactless in his comments about John Terry.
The England (yes, still) and Chelsea captain discovered he will face prosecution over allegations that he racially abused Anton Ferdinand at Loftus Road and is to appear at West London Magistrates' Court on February 1.
My own position on Terry has been consistently expressed on this page. To me, his explanation that he was only repeating a phrase denying he called Ferdinand 'a f****** black ****' appears to have more holes in it than The Beatles found in Blackburn, Lancashire, but the court will establish his guilt or innocence.
In the meantime, the honourable and decent thing for Terry to do would be to relinquish the captaincy of his country pending the outcome of the court case. Unsurprisingly, he has declined this option.
However, Villas-Boas's insistence that he 'will be fully supportive of JT whatever the outcome' of the court case is wilfully provocative.
So was the manager's boast that Terry's 'performances, commitment and concentration have increased since the incident' at Queens Park Rangers. Yep, there's nothing like a racism storm to focus the mind.
I find it particularly galling to read nausea-inducing twaddle that Terry is 'heroically' battling on as this scandal continues. He is continuing to do his job, no more, no less, and somewhat patchily too on the available evidence.
In many walks of life he would be suspended on full pay pending the outcome of the case, so he can consider himself fortunate to still be granted the opportunity to be beating his bare chest in front of a cheering crowd.
And we will be able to establish how 'heroic' he was if he is subsequently cleared completely of all charges.
But these issues should not be divided on club lines. They need to be addressed sensibly - which leads me on to Ian Wright. Thankfully, the former Arsenal striker proves you don't have to have a blind allegiance to a club or a cause to be misinformed.
On the Suarez decision, he declared: 'As it is, this could be said to have opened the way for any black player who might have an axe to grind to accuse others in a similar way (to Evra) - and that sets a very dangerous precedent indeed.'
Ah, that's better. Unbiased stupidity. It does exist.
Football is a wonderful sport and has the capacity to bring people together. But, contradictorily, when it comes to recrimination and poisonous hate the game has also been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
Amid all the noise and incessant fury, it pays to accept there are times when your club, players and fans might be in the wrong. And to remember a conscience should not come in club colours.
My memories poor but what exactly happened when evra got his 4 match ban? Liverpool fans keep saying he's done it before.
If you're that fecking ignorant that you really need that, probably best just to keep your gob shut.
(You fecking childish, cretinous, legacy-destroying gimp).
Des Kelly: When it comes to crass protest, Kenny's been there, done that... and got the T-shirt | Mail Online
Great article on both racism incidents.
My memories poor but what exactly happened when evra got his 4 match ban? Liverpool fans keep saying he's done it before.
Like Sir Alex Ferguson, Dalglish cares about the game but, again like Ferguson, he will fight his club's corner. Liverpool's manager wants people to see that the FA could have agendas and he will be following any Terry developments with interest. He has already publicly noted that the FA has undermined its own disciplinary system by challenging Uefa's, successfully so in reducing Wayne Rooney's three-match ban for violent conduct.
Another United player. Paranoia permeates the heated air in the debating chamber deliberating on Suárez v Evra. Rancour deepens between England's greatest two clubs. Sadly, like a broken sewer, this story will drip and drip, run and run, threatening to contaminate the season, spreading ill-will to all men.
If you want to shut them up, there is a Liverpool blog that states the facts: Debunking LFC myths: No 11 – Patrice Evra has a history of race complaints | Liverpool-Kop.com | Liverpool FC News, features, statistics and analysis
If you want to shut them up, there is a Liverpool blog that states the facts: Debunking LFC myths: No 11 – Patrice Evra has a history of race complaints | Liverpool-Kop.com | Liverpool FC News, features, statistics and analysis
The comments section of that is unbelievable...It's just people who steadfastly refuse to believe things they don't want to. Even when presented, relentlessly, and undeniably with facts. Or will, alternatively, immediately ignore them and try and focus on something else instead. It's actually become incredibly depressing and dull now. Though fair play to that lad for at least trying.
What frightens me is even the usually sane Liverpool-supporters I know have indulged in this tribal nonsense, sticking up for Suarez as if this was a calculated, planned attack on their club and their innocent star striker. Even not taking into account the expected cringeworthy "Justice for Suarez"-stuff, the sane fans I know simply refuse to believe that Suarez is anything other than innocent, and that the FA just has decided to feck him over.
What's even stranger is this anger directed towards Evra. I just don't understand it. What's he done wrong? Do they believe he's lying? Suarez has admitted what Evra claims, that's why he's found guilty ffs. Are they angry because he told anyone that Suarez was abusing him?
When Rooney behaves like a twat, I'm almost always embarassed by it, and calls him out for it. Why do they feel the need to sacrifice usual principles to defend a man who's at best an ignorant, vile man who uttered racial abuse at a fellow player?
two words: Manchester United
The comments section of that is unbelievable...It's just people who steadfastly refuse to believe things they don't want to. Even when presented, relentlessly, and undeniably with facts. Or will, alternatively, immediately ignore them and try and focus on something else instead. It's actually become incredibly depressing and dull now. Though fair play to that lad for at least trying.
I can't believe that there is much debate about all this but it seems that people (and by people I mean almost everyone who has ever worked for, supported or played for Liverpool) have lost the plot and/or missed the point.
1) Suarez was not charged with being a member of the KKK or with reinventing slavery or of not having sufficient black relatives or friends. He was charged with using "abusive and/or insulting words and/or behavior contrary to FA rules" including "a reference to the ethnic origin and/or colour and/or race of Patrice Evra". This is something that Suarez has admitted from day one. He just doesn't think any sanction should apply to him because the term can be used in his home country without necessarily being an insult, racist or otherwise. That he was obviously not using whatever term he was in a friendly way negates his defense anyway but that doesn't really matter since he admitted the charge. ADMITTED IT. The actual charge and not whatever Liverpool types would like him to have been charged with so they could say he was innocent.
2) Ignorance of the law is no defense. It really isn't. Try telling a court that you are innocent of speeding on the motorway because you are German and they have limit free Autobahns. It won't work funnily enough.
3) Ignorance of the law CAN be mitigation but usually this involves you admitting the offense and then saying why the full force of law (or in this case regulation) shouldn't apply to you in sentencing terms. But Suarez didn't do this. He denied it outright by pleading not guilty and then immediately admitting it in his evidence. Duh. 8 weeks seems to be the standard ban for this offense but players who have admitted the charge and apologized have had up to 5 weeks of the ban suspended. Suarez would probably have been given a much lighter sentence if he had admitted it and said that it was a genuine cultural misunderstanding and apologised to Evra.
4) Who on earth has been advising and/or guiding Liverpool and Suarez in this matter? Their handling of this has, at best, been an amateurish disaster and at worst an overtly paranoid defamation of Evra while undermining the anti-racism gains that have been made in the game over the last couple of decades. It seems hard to believe that Liverpool's owners and/or lawyers sanctioned much of anything given the silliness of what has gone on at the Liverpool end from day one. Dalglish should hang his head in shame but we know that he crumbles under pressure so some of his actions aren't as big a surprise as they would be otherwise. But did he put out that bizarre statement after the verdict without first getting official sanction? Surely not? And where did he get a stroppy teenage fan to write it for him?
All the Liverpool fans I know are peddling the same shite as Dalglish or are remaining silent on the issue. Not a single one has said that Suarez was in the wrong. 90% of my friends and acquaintances are Liverpool fans. It's amazing the response (or lack of it) from people I held in high regard.
On the largest Hungarian newssite, a Liverpool fan wrote a piece saying that Evra's a gimp and it was all a show trial and Suarez did nothing wrong.
I've emailed him setting his 'facts' straight, most of which he had no answer, yet the article is still up, spreading lies.
All the Liverpool fans I know are peddling the same shite as Dalglish or are remaining silent on the issue. Not a single one has said that Suarez was in the wrong. 90% of my friends and acquaintances are Liverpool fans. It's amazing the response (or lack of it) from people I held in high regard.
Hungarians are an odd lot I tell ya.......
Suarez was a football comrade Pelikan
Pelican Comrade great sin of witnesses, slaughtered a pig in the fifties, so the first round can be sentenced to death. Bacso Peter's film, saying he did an exemplary punishment imposed for an offense is just as correlated as Luis Suarez eight meccses ban, which was an alleged négerezésért.
Anyone who has football changed once, or sitting in a random football stadium in the first five rows in one of the very well know that the game during the fotballisták a passion kurvaanyázzák each other, opponents, coaches and umpires, as if they really meant it. In such a situation, released me feck you hit a good son of a bitch has roughly as many meanings as in the morning , or that which releases the porter in the building foyer.
Luis Suarez, Liverpool FC striker urugayi the match against Manchester United Patrice Evra said leniggerezte [1] , defender of the guests, which is not nice, in fact, express brutishness - if at all happened. Let us take for granted now accounts for Evra, and believe him to Suarez in the Negritos used the word at least ten times. I do want to let us intervene in quickly to a single record, ear witnesses, and even the referee's report is not supported by the left-BEKK words, so this case is roughly like the enemy frog men guy leather sewn tin cans for communications minister Witness movie.
But I say, play with the idea that there was negritózás several times, passion. If you think that Luis Suarez with muscle leniggerezte Evra, has not yet been in a situation where the adrenaline thousand works in the body, and every nerve breaking tension, the root opponent to point at the last minute flick from her the Zsuga or kicking popliteal from behind. This is not the niggerezés what was altogether a slave plantation, which Been to cut military Rosa Parks on the bus there [2] , or what the South African economy fröcsög face contorted with hatred. Luis Suarez is part black.
Evra, and vote for lending again, is another matter. This is at least the sixth such incident having denounced someone who said something to him - so far in the FA drove the feck off of the beef with, but now statuáltak like Pelican black comrade for cutting and Suarez elmeszelték eight match. This is an exceptionally severe punishment, careers cut in half injury estimate fails for swimming so much, especially not in niggerezésért. So far, two cases had such a case, the FA's discipline discipline - both were fine in the end. Eight-match ban for two months, a long and terrible punishment disproportionate in a case where the guilt is just a sinner, no proof.
The minutes are not included in the incident, the referee and the case is not too far situated assistant had not heard anything (Evra is a specific miff of printing up to Suarez, and only later indicated that the striker's end provoked), one in Manchester or Liverpool player ever heard lenégereztek that anyone would have. Evra after the match because he said he believes what he said Suarez, but the referee did not mention in the official report, but reported separately to the FA, as accused Suarez. During testing, the FA disciplinary committee of Evra but the truth, with Suarez defense (did not say it, but if you do, the Negritos are not racist expression) was not addressed.
But would not hurt. Gustavo Poyet, the former Tottenham Excellence, Suarez by his compatriot Evra hisztizik only, and the case is a typical Liverpool-Manchester mess that has nothing to do with racism. According to Poyet, who has such an illustrious career has not heard of this and much harsher statements, in a hysterical bitch (I did not say, but we agree), and only kiröhögteti himself. Suarez is not hooted in his face, as Henry has one game in a full stadium, no banana tossing it like Roberto Carlos in Russia, but the Negritos used the word, as in Uruguay and in general in South and Latin American Spanish-speaking part of the only means to that a person's skin a bit darker.
"Not a racist statement, not insulting or offensive words, such as the English at the Scousert used liverpoliakra or Geordie was the Newscastle in people. I understand why at outrage in the British case, but I have 14 years of living here, Luis at just 365 days, let him be a little time to come in to clean habits. "
The same he wrote Tom Vickery, BBC South American football expert, who according to the FA guilty of huge folly. "Suarez grew up in a country whose national team has played well in 1916, black football players, and where in the 1950 World Champion team coach of El Jefe Negro Negro boss is the nickname fit." Vickery and Poyet also mentions that the Negro, Negro and Uruguay Negritos words about the guy, buddy (mate) used in the report, those who have darker skin than white. Eyes to see racism in this hypocrisy.
Liverpool, of course, the full width of chest stands next to the striker, and they appealed the decision, but I have a feeling, to no avail. The FA thoroughly with caught a piszlicsáré case in which a similar game or sixty times occur, but very dangerous precedent, because now it is enough to point out, say, the games continue végigkáromkodó Wayne Rooney, and say that lenégerezett several times, including in my ear, and even csulázott there is a foam ones. The FA is in front of one other case is similar, in which Anton Ferdinand John Terry said something, I wonder what kind of punishment they are born.
Not sure if this has already been mentioned but,
Isn't it a libellous statement from LFC regarding Evra's alleged previous false reporting of racist incidents?