Lukaku racially abused again on Italian TV

[I'm With Stupid]

I love the phrase "turned out to be racist," like even the speaker was surprised by it.

 

[paulchapo]

That is just incredible! It's not a temporary lapse in spite of his age it is a lifetime of racist beliefs that will be held until his dying day given his age. I doubt he will change tack now.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Amazes me how open they are about it. Players getting abused in most games and now this idiot making jokes about it on live tv.

 

[oakiecokie]

Amazes me how open they are about it. Players getting abused in most games and now this idiot making jokes about it on live tv.

It really needs FIFA to act,as its a pointless exercise looking at UEFA to sort this mess out.Most of the Eastern Bloc countries are even worse and yet fuck all happens except a slap on the wrist and a marginal fine.
The useless bastard Governments are the real culprits.

 

[lancs blue]

Wow - Italian football....

At what point does someone from outside the game step in.

It's Italy in general I'm afraid, as much as I love the country as a place to visit there is a definite blind spot with many Italians when it comes to racism.

 

[Pell]

He'll be on talksport next.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

An Italian television station says it will not use one of its pundits again after he made a racist comment about Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku.

Speaking on TopCalcio24, Luciano Passirani said: "If you go one-on-one with him he will murder you.

"The only way to come up against him is maybe give him 10 bananas to eat..."

Programme director Fabio Ravezzani said, despite Passirani's "immediate apologies" that "he could no longer participate in our broadcasts".

Lukaku, who moved from Manchester United to Inter in the summer, helped his side to a 1-0 win against Udinese on Saturday.

"Mr Passirani is 80 years old and to compliment Lukaku he used a metaphor that turned out to be racist," added Ravezzani.

"I think it was a terrible lack of momentary lucidity.

"I cannot tolerate any kind of errors, even if momentary."

That is appalling - on what planet did he think he could get away with that?

 

[Asa's Heart]

Especially stupid since it is well known that Lukaku prefers pies, apparently.

Trivialising stuff like this allows it to continue. Give your head a fucking wobble. We have had idiots racially abusing our own recently and we are seeing more and more of it. Shite player, played for a Shite team over the road, but would defend him to the hilt over crap like he is suffering already over there. Why anyone in their right minds of any ethnicity would want to play over there is a mystery to me.

 

[KS55]

Trivialising stuff like this allows it to continue. Give your head a fucking wobble. We have had idiots racially abusing our own recently and we are seeing more and more of it. Shite player, played for a Shite team over the road, but would defend him to the hilt over crap like he is suffering already over there. Why anyone in their right minds of any ethnicity would want to play over there is a mystery to me.

Get off your high horse. A jokey remark about Lukaku's weight does not trivialise this issue in the slightest, quite the opposite, as it points squarely in another direction. Nothing is immune from humour, not death, nor racism, nor war, nor pies.
.

 

[Machiavelli]

“Used a metaphor that turned out to be racist”
Was it Danny Baker?