The real gripe LFC fans have with the FA’s process is:
1. The FA are the prosecutors
So, what? It's a football matter, in England, who should be, the NSPCC? It's a gripe because you've lost, and then invented a persecution complex. If they'd found in your favour you'd be over the moon & crowing about "justice"
2. The FA are the judges (“independent” panel meaningless as it is only selected and re-selected by the FA)
Nonsense. You didn't object to the panel once and then complained afterwards. Much like Kenny's "we know what went on" smoke & mirrors bollocks. If you took it all as seriously as you claimed then you would have stringently vetted the panel if you had a problem with it (Suarez is innocent & being persecuted after all remember!?). You had no problem with it until it found him guilty, and then all of a sudden it became "meaningless" and biased. Grow the feck up.
3. Evra was allowed x attempts at viewing the video to ‘get his story straight’. Suarez, none until the day
Where does it say this in the report? Mariner was also told by Ferguson to "record everything Evra says verbatim" on the day of the match. This is a typical bollocks thing magnified or exaggerated by Liverpool fans. He was allowed to watch the video to corroborate his story whilst giving evidence, not to "get it straight."...It's just a way to excuse Suarez's story changing several times. Much like the earlier, forgotten "well Evra's better at English and so was naturally a more impressive witness" argument, before it emerged Suarez spoke in Spanish and had 2 interpreters.
4. FA were the executioners
Again, who should be, the NRA? BBCThree? Charles De Gaule?
So 3 of your 4 problems are with the arbitrators of the decision, and not the actual decision itself are they?
The FA produced no killer evidence (videos, referees, man utd players)
They produced all these things. There was video evidence that corroborated Evra's side of the story & contradicted Suarez's. The referee confirmed he remembered hearing Evra complain he'd been called black (and denied what Kuyt suggested) as did Ryan Giggs.
It ended up being Evra’s word against Suarez’s. The prosecution, judges and executioners decided its own plaintiff (Evra) was reliable and the ‘other team’ was wrong.
Your own lawyer said it wasn't. It ended up being Suarez's word against Evra's, Kuyt's, Commoli's, his own, linguistic & body language experts, and the video evidence.
As an independent fan you must see some room for questions there Africanspur? And some answers would be nice too.
Some room for questions? Every case has room for questions. Fred West's conviction had "room for questions" that doesn't mean you have grounds to challenge every verdict. Unless you want to over turn the case & think a huge miscarriage of justice has been done (which most of you seem to) then you can ask these questions there's "room for", but you'll also have to answer all the ones that paint Suarez in a bad light. Like why he used the word negro to an opponent during an argument in a derby match. Why his testimony changed several times. Why Kuyt & Commoli both initially translated what he'd said as exactly what Evra alleged. Why his body language is aggressive when he's supposedly being conciliatory, and many others, rather than simply ignoring them and proposing inconsistencies in minor bits of evidence or conspiracies at the heart of the FA.
I haven't met a single neutral fan whose on Liverpool's side in this one and yet still they peddle the "everyone whose objective can see this is a stich up."....Oh, no one is?...Well that's because everyone else hates Liverpool and it's all a huge conspiracy, and they've been suckered by the media, obviously...oh and none of them have read the report...and erm, I'm a hod carrier but even I know more about Law than all these law...talkin'...guys..
How you can possibly talk about objectivity when you're completely out on your own on this one & no other fans support you is beyond me. Surely anyone with any objectivity would see the ridiculous paranoid bias you're all operating under. You're (the royal you) even being unobjective about being objective whilst calling for objectivity. It's barmy!