The club should be punished if the accusations are false but judging by the reaction of the other players and Patrick Vieira in this instance, I doubt they are.

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He'd already been sent off for the tackle so I don't see the need to make the stuff up.

The problem usually is that it is one word against another.

I remember when Porto tried to counter the racist abuse of our players with claims we abused hulk by singing "you're not incredible"

World Cup proves our song was in fact correct

I did think at the time of the Evra / Chelsea Groundsman incident that something should have been done about the false waving of the race card.
This did cloud my feelings about the later Evra / Suarez incident rightly or wrongly.
I am led to believe now, that it wasn't actually Evra who waved the race card but it does leave a nasty taste.
Racism is wrong but to falsely allege it is equally wrong

comment by Cityblagger (U19262)
posted 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
He'd already been sent off for the tackle so I don't see the need to make the stuff up.

The problem usually is that it is one word against another.
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I essentially agree. However, one argument could be that the player was upset about being sent off and made the story up.
The other argument could be that a Croatian player used a racial comment to rub salt into the wound at the time of sending off.

If there are no credible witnesses then this a waste of time, as was the case with one of our referees a couple of years ago.

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