Evra accuses Suarez of racism

[sean_lfc]

I agree.

Sadly the issue is bigger and more emotive than a sporting one. I feel really sorry for Luis. He has been hung out to dry here, I wouldn't blame him at all if he left us. The problem he has is other than LFC supporters few people will ever remember more than Suarez = racist look into the story more than in just the headlines. And its the sensationalism that papers such as the Mirror are using, basically to sell papers, but definitely not to represent the truth of the club's statement.

If I were Suarez I'd be tempted to try and sue the papers for slander or defamation of character, but having accepted the ban, I am unsure what position he is left in for that.

Basically the whole situation ****ing stinks.

You know, I read this article in Der Spiegel today about a DDR-Germany shot putter from the 70s called Rolf Oesterreich. In a local tournament, he threw a world record, 22.12 metres. He didn't belong to any big institution, he just pretty much chucked the ball in his own little sports club, teaching himself how to throw. He used the 'American' style of throw (ie. twisting). Even though 5 official referees had attended the tournament and it was thus a valid scoring, the German highest institution discarded the record. The story is long-winding, with him trying on his own to beat the huge mighty 'FA', ended up with his giving up his career, he nearly even made it to the Olympics, they faught hard to destroy him.

And then I look at Suarez. And obviously it's not the same, but the DDR athlete was obviously being racially discredited, they destroyed his career and he never had a penny to his name. Suarez is a multi-millionaire. And although it is no excuse, there are many other sporting injustices that get little to no lime-light in the media. I also recall the attempted suicide of a female Indian athlete, who stunned people in a 200m run (something of the sort). They then demanded a gene test and although she had tits and fanny, apparently some hormons weren't right. So **** happens.

I'm not happy with the verdict at all, but in instances like this, a higher justice will prevail. Always has done, always will do.

[Vermilion]

Great to see our rejection of this 'kangaroo courts' findings is still total and unequivocal.

[ChesterDave]

Evra will fook the FA over. He is a bad snitch, when he leaves UTD, he will fook them over.

He's 30, Give him 2 or 3 year more at Utd tops and then when he leaves and his earning potential falls out comes the autobiography with all the sordid confessions about what was really said.

[BootRoom]

I can't understand The Mirror's approach to this, you would think that they would want to preserve their readership on Merseyside. It's generally regarded as a working class Labour supporting newspaper and I'm sure that it must be the second biggest selling newspaper on Merseyside after the Echo? I haven't bought it for a long time because it's full of celebrity gossip which doesn't interest me, but I would now make a conscious decision not to buy it on principle. Is that what they hoped to achieve with their back page "headlines"?

It's tabloid ****e with the primary aim of making money.

[mick the click]

We've definitely not heard the last of this.

Perhaps things will be "leaked" to the press in the coming weeks/months.

I hope so, although those doing the 'leaking' tend to be the press and they have largely been seen to be complete ****s so far.

Let's see.

[ChesterDave]

I hope so, although those doing the 'leaking' tend to be the press and they have largely been seen to be complete ****s so far.

Let's see.

The papers are selling themself right now, and we have all the poorly reasearched (effective player/club bingo transfer speculation.

Liverpool Man Utd and the John Terry saga in Feb and then hopefully they will need some gossip to sell papers.

Fingers crossed it happs by then.

[TheElephantMan]

It's tabloid ****e with the primary aim of making money.

Of course, but it has a greater level of readership in the North of England in working class cities and towns. As we don't buy The Sun then it wouldn't surprise me if a significant percentage of their circulation is in the Merseyside area? I would imagine that The Sun's loss was The Daily Mirror's gain, but now that they're taking the lead in their stance against our club they will obviously lose a lot of their readership in the area.

[Shaggy]

Interesting theory...

BrianDurand56 Brian Durand
Seems like Kenny is goading the FA into explaining his comments. In that case he will have reason to give blow by blow rebuttal

[marcus50bucks]

Dalglish: We know what is NOT in the Suarez

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish offered a robust defence of the club's stance throughout the controversial Luis Suarez affair, despite the widespread criticism of their handling of the situation.

The Reds boss argued that his player, who began his eight-match ban for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra by sitting out Tuesday's loss to Manchester City, has been punished so severely by the FA because they were looking to make an example over any issues of racism.

"(Luis was) Wrong place, wrong time, it could have been anybody," he said. "There are a lot of things we'd like to say; a lot of things we could say, but we don't want to get ourselves in trouble.

"We know what is going on, we know what is not in the report and that is important for us.

"It really is very dangerous that you don't know the full extent of the hearing, and what was said. It is up to the club to decide what we want to do about that.

"If one of your guys was in trouble and you knew it was the truth he was saying, would you support him?

"The players are showing their support for their team mate what is wrong with that? I think it is a fabulous statement (t-shirts) to make for a guy they give their support to in the dressing room and one of their closest friends in the dressing room.

"We are not digging a bigger hole for ourselves, it is unfortunate that we can not say any more. We have made a statement, and we can say no more."

Clicky

Very intriguing. This could get rather messy.

[Shaggy]

[TheElephantMan]

I'd threaten to punch him (in the same way Evra threatened to punch Suarez) if he wasn't wearing those ridiculous goggles.

[Fosterbloke]

The FA are ****ing cunts as is any journalist who taken more than 5 minutes to critically analyse the report as though it was them in the spotlight.

[Fosterbloke]

Slander 1
South American 0

[TheElephantMan]

The FA are ****ing cunts

Although our club have taken the decision not to challenge the findings of the one-sided hearing, we haven't. There are quite a lot of us and we could still give them quite a headache if we organised ourselves properly.

[Tee]

Is it just me or does this whole witch-hunt against Suarez have racist undertones?