White English people don't face any meaningful discrimination or have a historic basis of being shat on for their skin colour, generally speaking. Someone calling me a white trash honky is still being racist, but it hasn't got any punch behind it. That's probably why it's never happened. Everybody knows that it's not a damaging insult.
Nobody got punched. Football is a physical sport. Contact is inevitable and there will be occasions when people get a bit rough. This is expected and just part of the game, even when punishment is warranted. Racism isn't part of the game, shouldn't be expected and deserves to be stamped out. They're not similar and the comparison is facile. A man was shoulder barged. Would you prefer that or a two-footed, studs up leap to the ankles? This bloke got a six-match ban. A straight red is three. Punishments aren't always based on physical outcomes.
Don't really read much into these sorts of things but found this interesting: Shows how poor Everton have been relative to their ambition and money spent, and makes Sheffield United's start look even more impressive. Our win there looking better by the week.
Not in the UK no, because its a country with a majority white population. Though I have been called a "white devil" before because someone wanted to book a repair for their gym equipment but got angry because I wouldn't guarantee that the engineer would be black, and he wouldn't allow a white person in his house.....this was in Northampton I guess I was more shocked than offended, though.
Depends surely. There are words you can say that merit a worse punishment than landing a punch on someone.
And thats why this world is ****ing insane! There isnt anything that a person could say to me that I would rather take a punch instead of.
By applying Nationality to an insult is a racial aggravated public-order offence. Regardless of skin colour.
It really isn’t. Punching someone in the heat of the moment in a sport like football obviously isn’t great but understandable. Racially abusing them, for example, isn’t.
I was going on the example of bod which i think you disagree with. i think you are correct in that what the player did i would hardly construe as physical violence. I dont think he should have even been sent off.
I don't understand how you think that the manager was some passive innocent in this. It's not like he was just standing there and the player deliberately targeted him.
I don't think he was innocent but then I also don't think they're equally culpable. If I stood in the middle of the road then it'd be a bit of a ****ish thing to do of course, but it wouldn't excuse someone mowing me down in their Transit.
It don't count as an assult as the manager was standing in the way. However, if you did that to a climate protestor blocking your way expect to be locked up in a cell
