Blatter's views on racism.... from BBC

[briand]

He should be shot

Lol bit harsh.

-- Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:06 pm --

I'm no Sherlock Holmes but didn't Anton Ferdinand used to play for Sunderland A.K.A The Black Cats.

As for Blatter, if I understand him well enough, I agree with his general point (though he doesn't make it tactfully). Racism in action probably doesn't exist. If a player's good enough; he plays.

Racism in words does exist. But where do we draw the line?

If a player says to his opponent: "I hope your children die" and that player responds with "shut up you black ****", it wouldn't sit well with me if we banned only the one making the racist retort.

I agree with this man.

Shot in the spine so he becomes a vegetable and steps down as leader

Ohhh why didn't you say so. Well thats much better lol

 

[johnny on the spot]

So now PFA supremo Gordon Taylor has called for Sepp Blatter to resign. Well the other week he was calling on Carlos Tevez not to be such a ****, and we all saw how that went.

 

[Juan King]

Blatters PR team are just as shite as Blatter. I know this is a very serious issue, but this is just fucking hilarious. What a joke organisation we've got running football.

"I know my previous comments made me look like a racist, so here's a picture of me and a black man enjoying each others company". Fucking hell. Link to page below......

http://www.fifa.com/aboutfifa/organ...1544067/index.html?cid=twitter_voiceofthesite

Cringeworthy isn't it?

Reminds me when Brooklands say he can't be racist because when he goes to The Curry Cottage he talks to the asians who work there YCMIU

Sepp should get BB2 on his PR team. They could say Sepp is a regular at the Curry Cottage & often tips after a meal, so can not be racist.

 

[Dextersmate]

He should be shot

Lol bit harsh.

-- Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:06 pm --

I'm no Sherlock Holmes but didn't Anton Ferdinand used to play for Sunderland A.K.A The Black Cats.

As for Blatter, if I understand him well enough, I agree with his general point (though he doesn't make it tactfully). Racism in action probably doesn't exist. If a player's good enough; he plays.

Racism in words does exist. But where do we draw the line?

If a player says to his opponent: "I hope your children die" and that player responds with "shut up you black ****", it wouldn't sit well with me if we banned only the one making the racist retort.

I agree with this man.

Shot in the spine so he becomes a vegetable and steps down as leader

And you think calling someone who is black is bad,whether they are a **** or not??.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Well in this picture it looks to me like Blatter is wrestling that bloke onto the helicopter so he can chuck him out at a couple of hundred feet

 

[BradshawsBlues]

The bloke in the picture is called Tokyo Sexwale! In case this story wasn't ridiculous enough.

 

[Sabster]

I partially agree with him.

Racism is not giving someone a job because of the colour of there skin or repeated abuse.

It is not a one-off insult in the heat of the moment.

If someone had called Gareth Bale an ape would that be racist? I doubt anyone would care. But because Marcelo was called an ape it was racism.

 

[BlueMoon_1987]

I partially agree with him.

Racism is not giving someone a job because of the colour of there skin or repeated abuse.

It is not a one-off insult in the heat of the moment.

If someone had called Gareth Bale an ape would that be racist? I doubt anyone would care. But because Marcelo was called an ape it was racism.

I don't even know where to begin with this post. It's attitudes like this that allows racism to survive in one form or another.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

There's also the case of the Argentinian FIFA executive member who made a number of anti-semitic remarks.

Mr Julio Grondona, a member of the Fifa executive, that has seen four of its 24 members suspended for corruption, said “I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at this level. It’s hard work and, you know, Jews don’t like hard work.”

We've all seen that there have been numerous racist incidents in Internationals that FIFA have failed to respond to or just hit the offenders with a derisory fine.

 

[City Raider]

I partially agree with him.

Racism is not giving someone a job because of the colour of there skin or repeated abuse.

It is not a one-off insult in the heat of the moment.

If someone had called Gareth Bale an ape would that be racist? I doubt anyone would care. But because Marcelo was called an ape it was racism.

it appears we disagree again

one-off insults are the tip of the ice-berg, if left unchallenged they eventually result in racism in action

what do you think - people suddenly decide to act in a racist way before ever speaking about?

sorry, but that was such an ignorant post