Racism in Football

[Alex]

Why the huge fine? Suarez got £50,000 or something didnt he?

[Shaggy]

http://www.thefa.com/TheFA/Disciplinary/NewsAndFeatures/2012/john-terry-hearing-result-september.aspx

Terry hearing result

Thursday, 27 September, 2012
Independent Regulatory Commission reach conclusion in Terry case.

An Independent Regulatory Commission has today [Thursday 27 September 2012] found a charge of misconduct against John Terry proven and has issued a suspension for a period of four matches and a fine of £220,000, pending appeal.

The Football Association charged Mr Terry on Friday 27 July 2012 with using abusive and/or insulting words and/or behaviour towards Queens Park Rangers’ Anton Ferdinand and which included a reference to colour and/or race contrary to FA Rule E3[2] in relation to the Queens Park Rangers FC versus Chelsea FC fixture at Loftus Road on 23 October 2011.

The charge was the result of The FA’s long-standing investigation into this matter, which was placed on hold at the request of the Crown Prosecution Service and Mr Terry’s representatives pending the outcome of the criminal trial.

A hearing took place from 24-27 September 2012 before an Independent Regulatory Commission of The FA to consider the charge.

The decision of the Independent Regulatory Commission is as follows:

Mr Terry be suspended from all domestic club football until such time as Chelsea’s First Team have completed four competitive matches

Fined the sum of £220,000

The Independent Regulatory Commission will provide written reasons for its decision in due course. Mr Terry has the right to appeal the decision of the Independent Regulatory Commission to an Appeal Board. An appeal must be lodged within 14 days from receipt of the written reasons for the decision.

The penalty is suspended until after the outcome of any appeal, or the time for appealing expires, or should Mr Terry decide not to appeal. The reason for this is to ensure that the penalty does not take effect before any appeal so that Mr Terry has an effective right of appeal.

[Reece]

It was 8 but England's Brave John Terry started crying so they reduced it out of sympathy.

[Phoenix07]

He's been so brave throughout this whole ordeal. I hope he's OK.

[Alex]

I bet he appeals. Then this drags on into next season.

[dom9]

How can referees be expected to be consistent if the FA can't be.

[smu1977]

****ing disgrace.

[Alex]

****ing disgrace.

In what respect? That he was banned? Or that he is only banned for 4 games?

[dom9]

****ing disgrace.

Tony Barrett @TonyBarretTimes

*Sees Terry verdict & decides to swerve Twitter for rest of the day as the battle to be most outraged by its leniency/severity begins*

[Ben_Itez]

FA will say only four game ban as he only insulted him once, whereas Suarez was found guilty of abusing Evra 7, 8, 11, 12 times or something depending which part of the report you read.

Size of the fine though? That's where im stumped....is it something to do with wages? Suarez was on about 30kish when found guilty, Brave John Terry is on about 150k i imagine.

[S-RED]

IIRC Suarez got a 4 match ban for the racial insult, & a further 4 match ban for the number of times (8) they claimed he said it. IF Terry is found guilty, he'll get a 4 game ban as it's only alleged he said it once. Got a horrible feeling the sly cunt will get away with it.

4 games would deem to be consistant then?

[Shaggy]

FA will say only four game ban as he only insulted him once, whereas Suarez was found guilty of abusing Evra 7, 8, 11, 12 times or something depending which part of the report you read.

Size of the fine though? That's where im stumped....is it something to do with wages? Suarez was on about 30kish when found guilty, Brave John Terry is on about 150k i imagine.

Is it not the severity of the insult?

[Dirk07]

Luis ban was x 2 as he was found guilty of more than once using racist language

I would also guess that the fine is worked out by their salary, luis was earning £30k a week i think and footballer previously know as EBJT earns aprox £120k

[Alex]

There has to be something in the size of the fine. Maybe it was a case of 'We will reduce the games banned, for a bigger fine Mr Terry'

I dunno, maybe I am just annoyed again.

[Kenneth]

I'm not that arsed about the number of games he's banned for vs Suarez, I can kind of see a technical argument about number of times. I'm also happy to ignore ignorant comments about the court case verdict. But the reaction to the possibility of appeal will interesting. Luis appealing was a possibility met with horror by pretty much everyone.

From Chelsea's perspective, they've handled this as we should have.