Racism in Football

[Chazza]

Interesting way to go about your international retirement.

[RichC]

might be worth lumping on Cashley Cole being the next England retiree

[Shaggy]

As usual News Frames is well worth reading on Twitter. This is unreal

News Frames @NewsFrames
Another compare: important 3rd para in each: "Suarez damaged... English football". While Terry...http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19842795 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16375963

BBC on Suarez:

The report says Suarez has "damaged the image of English football around the world".

BBC on Terry:

The panel says the Chelsea captain, 31, "is not a racist" but it is "satisfied" his comments were used as an insult.

[Vermilion]

[Leyton388]

Looks like Bertrand will get a lengthy run of games for chelsea and Leighton Baines will now be England's NO 1 left back.

[Shaggy]

Almost 2 hours later, Ashley Cole has now deleted the tweet. Had about 22,000 retweets

[Vermilion]

Apologised un-reservedly now, done in "the heat of the moment".

[Shaggy]

Ashley Cole apologises to FA: "I had just finished training and saw the captions on the TV screens in the treatment rooms about what was said in the FA Commission Ruling about me. I was really upset and tweeted my feelings in the heat of the moment. I apologise unreservedly for my comment about the FA."

[Muddled]

The ****house.

[AnfieldForever]

Ashley Cole apologises to FA: "I had just finished training and saw the captions on the TV screens in the treatment rooms about what was said in the FA Commission Ruling about me. I was really upset and tweeted my feelings in the heat of the moment. I apologise unreservedly for my comment about the FA."

Just shows how ****ing thick he is.

[Leyton388]

He can say sorry all he wants. The FA will want his head. It's as simple as that. I wouldn't be surprised if they ban him for the entire season after that.

[Vermilion]

He can say sorry all he wants. The FA will want his head. It's as simple as that. I wouldn't be surprised if they ban him for the entire season after that.

Oh It's fine, Roy's had a word, and he'll be selected as usual for the next England game, AC's 100TH Cap too coming up in two games time.

[G]

What really ****s me up in all this, is the non handshakes between them since the incident, and how Suarez was made to feel for wanting to stand his ground, how we were told he was shaming the club and football!

******s! ******s! ******s!

Yes but in the media's eyes Evra was the victim so Suarez's refusal to shake his hand was seen by them as inflammatory.

It's like Terry refusing Ferdinands hand if it was offered to him, that's the difference, as wrong as it is.

[Vermilion]

Yes but in the media's eyes Evra was the victim so Suarez's refusal to shake his hand was seen by them as inflammatory.

It's like Terry refusing Ferdinands hand if it was offered to him, that's the difference, as wrong as it is.

I see your point.

[Kenneth]

Yes but in the media's eyes Evra was the victim so Suarez's refusal to shake his hand was seen by them as inflammatory.

It's like Terry refusing Ferdinands hand if it was offered to him, that's the difference, as wrong as it is.

Or isn't.

One strange aspect that goes against the whole xenophobic based difference in treatment is the attitude towards the 'victims', which should surely be the focus. Evra the foreigner got a lot if sympathy in the coverage, but nobody seems to give a **** that Anton Ferdinand got called a black cunt. I appreciate that the perpetrator is probably the reason but it isn't right that the focus has been almost entirely on how this impacts terry, his place in the England team or captaincy of Chelsea.