Perhaps not, Moses. But this case is clearly about damage limitation and myopic short-termism. Liverpool have a fire to put out and it's hilarious watching them squirm.
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Perhaps not, Moses. But this case is clearly about damage limitation and myopic short-termism. Liverpool have a fire to put out and it's hilarious watching them squirm.
They should give him an extra 5 game ban for his offensive teeth.
If all their appeals that hit the woodwork had gone through, they'd be the most multicultural friendly club in the league.
Surely that's no the real Balotelli? Because if so, he's really opening himself up for some serious legal issues.
It's a fake Mario Balotelli page. I'm really enjoying myself at the moment.
Norwegian Liverpool fans are flooding the twitter account of Norwegian football pundit Aleksander Schau because of something he said during half time in one of the matches tonight. I think he was positive to punishing racism, and that if there is evidence, FA has done the right thing. Suddenly every LFC-supporter hates him. I love how they are making themselves look like such a sad bunch of people.
I actually feel a little bit ill reading the defences on RAWK.
Text my brother-in-law - the bitterest of all dippers - when hearing the result and he replied saying if the show was on the other foot, with the evidence shown, the club needs to stay classy above any player.
He's a rare breed. Still a bindipping cnut mind.
Text my brother-in-law - the bitterest of all dippers - when hearing the result and he replied saying if the show was on the other foot, with the evidence shown, the club needs to stay classy above any player.
He's a rare breed. Still a bindipping cnut mind.
The guy who posted this on RAWK must have topped himself then
"If all PL woodwork strikes this season had been goals, Liverpool would be just 4 points behind Man City"
The blacks: a great bunch of lads.
I have a dipper mate who is the same on this one. He says the FA fudged it and if he is guilty of racism the ban is too small.
Yep, they thought that was real. This is turning out to be a lot more fun than I thought.
I had to explain my laugh to my missus there. She said "why is that funny?" Sometimes I don't know why I bother with her.
I think the ban's about right, Liverpool FC's reaction is the out-of-whack response.
Wonder what Mr Hanson's comments will be on MOTD tomorrow regarding this.
I really hope we'd act the same as we preach, Moses. On issues like this it can't come down to partisan feelings - it has to transgress. There simply has to be zero tolerance approach to racism and other such prejudices within the game we love.
I knew that account was fake before twitter forced him to change his name to Not balotelli.
Sadly I believe some national newspapers didn't.
Sadly I believe some national newspapers didn't.
"You can't win anything with kd...I mean, with kids."
Totally agree man.
Spent a while reading through their thread. A lot of posts are about him missing the games against City (they face each other three(?) times around the time the ban will take place so of course they'll be happy for that) but there are also quite a lot of well thought out posts which, like you say, recognise the severity of the charge and apart from 2 or 3 posts there's not many defending him and I'm sure it's the same on a lot of other forums also.
Couldn't say it any better than that. Excellent post.
There's not been much said about it lately. Think the last thing I heard was that the files on it were handed to the CPS.
Liverpool's statement is just...wow. Bizarre from a professional club of that size.
I think we can now safely remove the word 'professional'.
Hansen: I've said it before and I'll say it again: Ya cannae win anything with yi--
Lineker: Oooookay Al, save it for the Liverpool Christmas party. Let's not turn this into another Suarezgate.
I just can't believe in this day and age in the post-Alistair Campbell era when communication is everything they would release a statement as insane as that!
This made me chuckle from twitter:
"Surprised the FA has thrown the book at Suarez. Usually they just throw racists the England captain's armband"
"Surprised the FA has thrown the book at Suarez. Usually they just throw racists the England captain's armband"
Suarez has let down himself, Liverpool, Dalglish and football by David Maddock - MirrorFootball.co.uk
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He once passed to Glen Johson and no longer expects him to park his car.
Clearly not racist.
Clearly not racist.
It's really weird because I doubt any legal eagle would have OKed a statement ahead of a considered reading of the judgment and banging that crap out ahead of legal opinion is just not what you do.
Totally, even if the sentiments may be felt; say feck all.
It's an extraordinarily angry statement, with none of the guile or controlled dismissiveness you'd expect.
I've been catching up on this since getting home and only just read the LFC statement.
Oh. My. God.
Is all I can really say to that. It's absolutely staggering.
Oh. My. God.
Is all I can really say to that. It's absolutely staggering.
Even if they had read the report and knew all the evidence, it's incredibly foolish and extremely unprofessional to even think of doing it.