Evra accuses Suarez of racism

[JHP]

Don't lose sight of the facts, which are, that the people advising the fa on dialect, said if Suarez said what he says he said...it was NOT racist.

The fa panel just choose to go with Evra, that's what stinks.

So apologising at the start was sort of difficult, especially as at first we heard the accustaion was N***** numerous times.

It's not been so straight forward as just admitting it and apologising. imo.

Suarez is not racist, so says FA & Evra - fact.

[JHP]

Some would love to see LFC ripping itself apart over this.

Lets try not to give them what they want. Just move on now, no need for further inquest or analysis of who said/ thought what.

Focus needs to be on reforming the FA disciplinary process.

[ChesterDave]

That, and hurting Evra as much as possible, and as often as possible. What a ****ing cunt of a man, hate him, really hate him, wish him a career ending injury every day.

Dont need to. His day will come when he is surplus to requirements, or falls out with Fergie like so many in the past.

Then he wants the payday and the truth outs in the autobiography and he gets mullered in the press.

[Leyton388]

Well, they have appointed Brian Barwick to oversee a review of all PR and communications.
I want to know where Ian Cotton was in all of this.

When was this mate?

[Nicey]

Cluster**** word of the day

[cream]

What an absolute farce, perfect opportunity to draw a line under the matter but instead we **** it up again, we've become an embarrassment. Once again, it's looks as if the owners have had to step in to stop us embarrassing ourselves further.

[Lecter]

Yeah but you also played in long shorts, had no electricity, outside toilets and consumption.

Those were the days

[Gibbo]

What an absolute farce, perfect opportunity to draw a line under the matter but instead we **** it up again, we've become an embarrassment. Once again, it's looks as if the owners have had to step in to stop us embarrassing ourselves further.

When has it happened before?

[MrMichael]

The club should have from day one acknowledged that Luis used a racist word but that was lost in translation. And then apologised there and then for any misunderstanding and offence caused. End of IMO.

Don't lose sight of the facts, which are, that the people advising the fa on dialect, said if Suarez said what he says he said...it was NOT racist.

The fa panel just choose to go with Evra, that's what stinks.

So apologising at the start was sort of difficult, especially as at first we heard the accustaion was N***** numerous times.

It's not been so straight forward as just admitting it and apologising. imo.

Yeah, this. That's the thing, if you accept Suarez account of what he said, then it just wasn't "a racist word", so really, he couldn't apologise for that. However, I do think it could have been handled differently from the very start, and the club could have encouraged Luis to make a statement along the lines of

"Although I maintain that I did not use any racist language whatsoever, it appears that Patrice Evra has genuinely misinterpreted part of our conversation in Spanish, and I would like to assure him that I intended to cause him no offence whatsoever and hope this resolves any misunderstanding".

Something like that might have taken quite a lot of the sting out of the whole thing while still maintaining Luis did nothing wrong, especially in the eyes of the media c*nts, and not forced us so much into an entrenched and very much isolated position.

[Vermilion]

The farce is how the game is run, it matters not what colour or creed you are, just the colour of the shirt you wear.

[dom9]

When was this mate?

Announcement last week.

I can find any links though.

[Vermilion]

Yeah, this. That's the thing, if you accept Suarez account of what he said, then it just wasn't "a racist word", so really, he couldn't apologise for that. However, I do think it could have been handled differently from the very start, and the club could have encouraged Luis to make a statement along the lines of

"Although I maintain that I did not use any racist language whatsoever, it appears that Patrice Evra has genuinely misinterpreted part of our conversation in Spanish, and I would like to assure him that I intended to cause him no offence whatsoever and hope this resolves any misunderstanding".

Yeah, agree with that, could have been done differently, but had we done it the above way, i'm not sure it would have made a whole lot of difference.

Doesn't seem to me that the FA accepted that version of events from the start.

[Leyton388]

Announcement last week.

I can find any links though.

Nice one mate.

With regards to Ian Cotton, that guy is more illusive than big foot.

[Norbs]

Brian Barwick apointment is mentioned 2/3rds down

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...vras-hand.html

[malg]

Yet another role over by the once mighty Liverpool. Suarez should have told that scum sucking ****s to **** off. We should now be know as the united pets.