![From today’s Liverpool-Manchester United FA Cup clash. This Liverpool supporter in the white sweater jacket allegedly made this “gesture” at Patrice Evra of Manchester United, who was famously involved in an on-pitch racism dust-up with Luis Suarez of Liverpool.
I would suspect you’ll be hearing more about this as this week goes on. Liverpool were victorious in the match, 2-1.
[picture courtesy of about a million people on Twitter]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyin1r0N4U1qc88aro1_1280.jpg)
From today’s Liverpool-Manchester United FA Cup clash. This Liverpool supporter in the white sweater jacket allegedly made this “gesture” at Patrice Evra of Manchester United, who was famously involved in an on-pitch racism dust-up with Luis Suarez of Liverpool.
I would suspect you’ll be hearing more about this as this week goes on. Liverpool were victorious in the match, 2-1.
[picture courtesy of about a million people on Twitter]
![John Terry will be criminally charged with a “racially aggravated public order offense”.
This is in direct result of the action during Chelsea’s controversial and highly-charged defeat at Loftus Road back in October. Terry is alleged to have called Queen’s Park Rangers Anton Ferdinand a “black [rhymes with “runt”] during a row over a red card.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwk6g65jiZ1qc88aro1_500.jpg)
John Terry will be criminally charged with a “racially aggravated public order offense”.
This is in direct result of the action during Chelsea’s controversial and highly-charged defeat at Loftus Road back in October. Terry is alleged to have called Queen’s Park Rangers Anton Ferdinand a “black [rhymes with “runt”] during a row over a red card.
This is probably one of the more tone-deaf defenses I’ve read in some time. Pulling out the “black family members”, i.e., the “some of his best friends” are black card is probably the lowest route you can go in defending Luis Suarez.
The problem for Suarez is that he apparently copped to using the word “negro” and it’s hard for a Westerner to see that in any context other than racial abuse. It gets worse when the Liverpool statement essentially blamethrows at Evra (no matter how much of a prat you think he is, he doesn’t deserve to be racially taunted.)
The big and valid objection is that there’s been no outside corroboration of Suarez’s alleged behavior toward Evra — it’s pretty much Evra’s word against Suarez’s — but while LFC emphasized that at one point, all the other stuff involved undermines them and Suarez.
Bad news for Liverpool FC today.
“After the World Cup in South Africa, it was my opinion that racism, discrimination has disappeared.” - Sepp Blatter, at his very best
The most powerful man in football, amazingly, continues to take his absolutely nonsensical statements to new heights. Just when you think he’s hit rock bottom, another sexist, racist, or homophobic comment arises out of nowhere. Opinions haven’t ‘changed’ on Sepp Blatter per se, however, in an interview with Al Jazeera’s reporter Lee Wellings, FIFA’s President proclaimed that because the World Cup was hosted in Africa, racism in the game has now disappeared (2:36 in video).
To live in a world that disillusioned… sigh, it must be nice. Blatter also said beforehand that racism does not exist on the field between players. Sure, racist expressions may be used during the match, but it’s nothing a simple handshake can’t rectify. The worst part is the casual nature of Blatter’s dialogue. It reeks of entitlement and even disinterest because any casual fan can see racism persists. They read the papers; they follow discussion on twitter. Does Sepp live in his own world? Nevermind, rhetorical question.
