Elvis
Eh?
I think I get what you are saying.
It just appears to be hypocritical that the FA can charge one player with being insulting and not the other, particularly when you consider that both things happened at the same time! I imagine the FA only got wind of Evra's insults whilst they were investigating the incident, yet it seems unfair to me that he can insult and abuse yet Suarez can not.
I am guessing that the two things are separate, i.e. the insulting/abusive charge and the racially abusive charge.
Anyway, this whole thing turned out as expected, I don't mean the outcome, I mean the reaction from both sets of fans...and you can be near enough certain imo if the verdict had been not-guilty, then the reactions would have been reversed.
It's funny to me how a lot of United fans now feel it is okay to take the word of the FA as being 100% correct, yet in the past they have be seen to be a joke who cannot be trusted to get things right! Again, this can be reversed depending on who you follow!
Billybob it is the reference to skin colour that makes the action serious. Just as it was Rooney swearing down the camera that made his actions serious. Why should Evra be in trouble when he didn't use racial connotations? That happens every game. References to skin colour in an abusive manner don't.
Elvis
As I have said, I think that the FA charged Suarez with two things. The first one of which was using abusive and insulting language (regardless of the racial language).
I may be wrong with this, but that's how it appeared at the time to me and that's how it appears now with the statement from the FA.
What was more delusional/ridiculous
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posted on 20/12/11
Elvis
Eh?
I think I get what you are saying.
It just appears to be hypocritical that the FA can charge one player with being insulting and not the other, particularly when you consider that both things happened at the same time! I imagine the FA only got wind of Evra's insults whilst they were investigating the incident, yet it seems unfair to me that he can insult and abuse yet Suarez can not.
I am guessing that the two things are separate, i.e. the insulting/abusive charge and the racially abusive charge.
Anyway, this whole thing turned out as expected, I don't mean the outcome, I mean the reaction from both sets of fans...and you can be near enough certain imo if the verdict had been not-guilty, then the reactions would have been reversed.
It's funny to me how a lot of United fans now feel it is okay to take the word of the FA as being 100% correct, yet in the past they have be seen to be a joke who cannot be trusted to get things right! Again, this can be reversed depending on who you follow!
posted on 20/12/11
Billybob it is the reference to skin colour that makes the action serious. Just as it was Rooney swearing down the camera that made his actions serious. Why should Evra be in trouble when he didn't use racial connotations? That happens every game. References to skin colour in an abusive manner don't.
posted on 20/12/11
Elvis
As I have said, I think that the FA charged Suarez with two things. The first one of which was using abusive and insulting language (regardless of the racial language).
I may be wrong with this, but that's how it appeared at the time to me and that's how it appears now with the statement from the FA.
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