Bentancur : 7 Game Ban : Official

comment by We've got Ali (U14842)
posted 38 minutes ago
I haven't heard anyone discussing the massive difference between saying "Sonny and his cousins all look the same" and "S Koreans all look the same".
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I don't look anything like my cousins. I'm sure Bentacur doesn't know what Sons cousins look like.

He can argue that its not a racial slur at all. If someone said me and my brother look the same, I would not be offended.
I might reply that he needs a pair of specs.

Reference to someone by a pejorative nickname like "niggaa"...that's a slur. Mohammed Ali refused the US army draft in the Vietnam war saying "no Vietnamese ever called me Niggaa".

It's almost as if context is important

I wonder how many Vietnamese people Ali had met at that point

I feel this is an OTT punishment, particularly as the racial part is implied, not explicit.

The test will be what happens to others.

As above, there are far worse things that can be said. In fact it would be hard to find a more mild insult than what Bentancur said.

So if this is the benchmark, then perpetrators of more offensive crimes will be looking at what, 10 games?

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 12 hours, 2 minutes ago
I feel this is an OTT punishment, particularly as the racial part is implied, not explicit.

The test will be what happens to others.

As above, there are far worse things that can be said. In fact it would be hard to find a more mild insult than what Bentancur said.

So if this is the benchmark, then perpetrators of more offensive crimes will be looking at what, 10 games?
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As I said above, what Bentancur is reported to have said is not a racial slur at all.

If he had said "all these chinks look the same", that would be using a racial insult.
I think he can appeal the ban and take the stupid FA to court for loss of wages etc etc.

That would have been outrageously racist. Bentancur was just normal levels racist

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 12 hours, 41 minutes ago
I feel this is an OTT punishment, particularly as the racial part is implied, not explicit.

The test will be what happens to others.

As above, there are far worse things that can be said. In fact it would be hard to find a more mild insult than what Bentancur said.

So if this is the benchmark, then perpetrators of more offensive crimes will be looking at what, 10 games?
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The FA set 6 game minimum, 12 game max for racism. Given this is (I think) the first case since the rules come in it's understandable they didn't go with the lowest.

Spurs are appealing the length of the ban…

In all likelihood it’s only going to be reduced by one game…

comment by Conn & Duncan..Scottish Legends (U15636)
posted 1 minute ago
Spurs are appealing the length of the ban…

In all likelihood it’s only going to be reduced by one game…
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I'm not sure that is advisable. Whatever your views on the severity, it is not a good look especially, as you say, it only gets lowered by 1.