9 - Luis Suárez - v1

[Deco 20]

Have you read what Suarez' mother said about the case? It's just...

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

The scumbag did it, and he deserves his ban!

lying piece of garbage!

Dogleash = disgrace

People need their heads testing if he thinks calling him 'negro' in the middle of a heated confrontation was friendly.

Ban Desereved!

I hope Liverpool go on a downward slump now, but with Carroll still scoring each week.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

Have you read what Suarez' mother said about the case? It's just...

what did she say?

 

[Canto]

what did she say?

Probably something along the lines of Luis always painted his room black when he was growing up and even has FIVE, yes FIVE black shirts, so he couldn't be a rascist. That one time he knocked down a black cat while driving was purely accidental.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

mama Suarez:

I know my son. I know he has to calm down a bit with things like the salute he made to rival fans. But he’s no racist.

One thing is his conduct on the pitch and another is that they accuse him of being a racist. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I’m worried now when I see him on the pitch. I know he’s going to have to look after himself.

I’m afraid now when he comes up against a black person, especially because they’re going to go looking for him.

Luis was best friends with Pablo [Caballero] when they played for Nacional,” she said.

He was round our house all the time and we always used to call him ‘Negro’. It’s not an insult here.

 

[Jenks]

So she thinks black people are going to go looking for him? I see where he gets it from...

 

[Ode to Django]

Luis Suarez isn't a racist but his Mum is.

 

[Ambrosia]

Really disappointed with Liverpool.

Today they betrayed their traditions by backing down from a fight due to public opinion. Fair enough, the club sponsors probably had a huge say in this but justice is justice. If you believe in something you fight for it til the bitter end.

Liverpool chickened out. First time in my life i've been disappointed with this football club. I guess that's what happens when you're owned by American business men.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

Really disappointed with Liverpool.

Today they betrayed their traditions by backing down from a fight due to public opinion. Fair enough, the club sponsors probably had a huge say in this but justice is justice. If you believe in something you fight for it til the bitter end.

Liverpool chickened out. First time in my life i've been disappointed with this football club. I guess that's what happens when you're owned by American business men.

 

[Superfly]

What a joke of a club

 

[Canto]

Really disappointed with Liverpool.

Today they betrayed their traditions by backing down from a fight due to public opinion. Fair enough, the club sponsors probably had a huge say in this but justice is justice. If you believe in something you fight for it til the bitter end.

Liverpool chickened out. First time in my life i've been disappointed with this football club. I guess that's what happens when you're owned by American business men.

You should be disgusted by the clubs actions and statements... absolute joke of a club.

 

[RedMadridista]

I'm waiting for Manuel's comment now...

 

[Ambrosia]

Very interesting article. Is the author really legit? If so, that's some new interesting information on the case.

I also liked Liverpool's statement, but I believe they should have appealed, mostly for moral reasons. The consequences of this decision for football as a whole will be disastrous. I understand why they gave up the case, but I wish they hadn't.

This decision and the reactions to it have only contributed to the trivialization of racism. I don't think the FA and some of the posters on here (and other places) realize how serious a matter racism is. It seems like some football fans now regard racism as a "card" to be played, a "weapon" to see the player they don't like punished. Accepting that someone can be punished by racism with no evidence is pretty much accepting that racism is as serious as your common civil offense.

Racism is a hate crime, one of the biggest plagues of the current society (and in football as well) and one that unfortunately only seems to be growing. And yet it seems like people don't care about that at all.

This is what saddens me the most about this case. This is not a decision that will contribute to eliminate racism, it's a decision that will encourage racism. More specifically, it's a decision that trivializes racism; basically, any player can accuse a fellow player of racism and get him banned even with no evidence at all.

And the worst part is of course that most fans seem to comply with this trivialization, as seen for instance in some posts in this thread, agreeing with the decision because the player they don't like has been punished or disagreeing with it just because their team's player has been punished. I don't see how we can eradicate racism in football (and society of course) while people keep having this attitude. This all process only shows huge disrespect for all those who are indeed daily victims of racial abuse, by basically making a mockery of the suffering they go through.

This must be a new low for football: racism turned into a mere weapon to get rival players suspended.

Good post.

This incident has just enforced my belief that people are very easily manipulated. Throw an emotive issue like racism out there and people immediately turn into rabid animals incapable of critical thinking.

Being at the end of racist abuse is a terrible thing and i have enough experiences of that with me being of mixed race. I hold racists with the utmost disgust which is why i think if anyone is going to be labelled a racist there should be no if's or buts about it. Even if there is 95% evidence to suggest that they are racist, only 100% should do.

This Suarez case really depresses me and at the same it makes me furious thinking that three middle aged, white men who have no real life experiences on racism are holding themselves to be the judge, jury and executor of such a subject and on the balance of probabilities too. Having newspapers like the Daily Mail, Express, Telegraph, Times , newspapers that constantly display xenophobic tendencies, sitting on their high horses telling people like myself how i should feel about racism or what i should consider racist. And it just saddens me that there are people who no doubt are well intentioned, falling for such a scam.

Suarez a mixed race man was FA's scapegoat for their fight against racism and the scapegoat that will prevent real justice in the case of Terry, a pure white, England captain (not a dirty south american) being done. Because you see, everyone's appetite is now satisfied.

As for Liverpool, i can understand they were stuck in between a rock and a hard wall but they should have done the right thing. In the end they chose the easiest way out. Really feel let down with the club. Shankly would never have taken such a stance.

 

[RedMadridista]

Liverpool FC know Luis is a racist scumbag... that's why they're not taking it any further.

 

[zanela]

MT and Ambrosia 'll make a good pair.