United thread 2020/21

[mccity]

This feels really excessive. Especially the fine.


No complaints though.

 

[Bald fraud]

This is a stupendously bad decision and I expect Cavani or United will challenge it in some way.

Being banned for 3 games and fined £100,000 for calling a friend with black hair, "blackie".

The FA can't decide that words with no racist meaning in a foreign language are racist because they look or sound like a racist word in English.

Stupendous!!!!

 

[Horlocksleftpeg]

This feels really excessive. Especially the fine.


No complaints though.

It’s the world we live in now.

while I don’t think he’s even slightly racist, football is trying (apparently) to kick all forms of racism out of football.

they can’t let something like this slip as it dilutes their message.

They had to act.

 

[domalino]

It's a bad decision, but it is correct. The stupid FA has gone and changed its rules to stipulate that anyone guilty of racism is automatically to face a three game ban. They now have no option but to follow their own rule, no matter what the individual circumstances are. They have given themselves no leeway, no wiggle room.

Cavani did not mean to be racist, I have no doubt about that. (Neither did Bernardo). And I feel sorry for him on a personal level, because he now has this label hanging over him, and it will always be there.

It is football's governing body, The FA, that always legislates in haste.

Incidentally, I also think United themselves are more culpable than Cavani here. They knew the new rules. They knew what happened to Bernardo and Alli, and they should be warning all incoming players of the pitfalls when engaging in social media. It is common practice in most companies to have induction courses for new employees. Diving and screaming is obviously on the agenda for United. They need to add racial awareness too.

It's the wrong decision because they've charged him with a racially aggravated social media post for something that is categorically not racial.

It's got nothing to do with their new rules, someone decided that a word in Spanish which has no abusive or racial connnotations was racist because it looks a bit like a racist word in English.

 

[ultimateharold]

It's the wrong decision because they've charged him with a racially aggravated social media post for something that is categorically not racial.

It's got nothing to do with their new rules, someone decided that a word in Spanish which has no abusive or racial connnotations was racist because it looks a bit like a racist word in English.

Context means nothing in this world any more. Only absolutes when it comes to these kinds of things.

Professor placed on leave for using Chinese expression that sounds like N-word (nypost.com)

 

[Gray]

Bunch of arrogant, condescending, egotistical twats - hope things go tits up for them in 2021.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

He should have been banned for violent conduct against Everton anyway.

The media barely mentioned it, the day after.

Counter this, to Mario's "stamp" on Scoddy Parker v Spuds 2012, and we had trial by media for over a week, in 2012.

Didn't Aguero get a retrospective ban, when Sky were "like a dog with a bone" to get him banned

 

[mat]

Bunch of arrogant, condescending, egotistical twats - hope things go tits up for them in 2021.

Now tell us how you really feel about the rag cunts?

 

[mat]

This feels really excessive. Especially the fine.


No complaints though.

It's a not a fine.

It's payment for VAR services.

 

[Sid C]

Just heard he's on at the Embassy club next weekend

Bernard wouldn’t have let the rag in, probably nick his line though.