Dear Redburntbellend, I think you should leave as you are totally ruining your argument about this being a "football" board
If I leave this thread you do realise you will be sat here on your own with just your internet tourettes to keep yo company........Ill take the risk.... Just have to think of a statment you cannopt reply to, so you can stop trying to coax me back for what you clearly see as some form of Foreplay
Not sure how they'd know he was reporting racist abuse - they might just have thought he was whinging about getting some unspecified abuse from the crowd. As Rebbrynner said, they might just have thought he was wasting time or trying to get another player sent off. True, but I think many Liverpool fans have developed a victim mentality from the whole Suarez thing, and were probably just looking for any excuse... This is probably a fair point, tho' I think the main impact of the Suarez situation has been to make the media focus on the whole thing when similar incidents in other games (like ours vs Leeds and West Ham) were ignored.
I wish they'd stop taking the videos down. I haven't seen it yet. I do feel that the media circus has made the situation worse. That young lad may have felt he was stepping into a cauldron of racial hatred, and under such circumstances it's easy to mishear or misunderstand things if you're anxious and agitated to begin with.
Well I've now seen the video and I have to say that, after the incident occurred, it did seem like a cauldron of hatred. Booing the lad and chanting Suarez's name really didn't help.
A 20-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence after the alleged abuse of Tom Adeyemi.
What was the racist incident against us? I forget. Was it Leeds or Manchester fans? Fans were wearing jester hats BTW What a bunch of embarrassments.
Dalglish's handling of the whole siuation has been so incompetent that it defies belief. To a certain extent the club owners are also to blame. To leave such an issue to him when he has little experience of dealing with such sensitive issues as racism was unwise but still you would have thought that he was wise and knowledgeable enough to have some appreciation of such wider issues. To support Suarez in such an aggressive way without saying a few words about his and the club attitude/opposition to racism was crass and gave the wrong signals to the fans and to the wider public outisde the club. I have friends and colleagues who are not keen footballl fans who have said to me that they did not know that Liverpool was a club who at worst supported racist behaviour at best turned a blind eye to it and trivialised anti-racist campaigns. What credibility can the club have on anti-racism when they say the use of the N word by Suarez was justified because in his country this can be used as a non-offensive way. Dalglish seemed to have lost the main point that the word was uttered in a confrontation not during a love-in with Suarez wife (the argument he used to make his point). It is surely not beyond's Dalglish understanding that there is whole world of difference between the two. Why did he also not understand that the club not appealing the severe sentence should have been the end of the matter? why drag the whole issue further by still insisting that Suarez was right in using that word? The wrong signals again were given and it is not surprising that a moronic low IQ fan wearing a Suarez shirt abused a black footballer so soon after one of their own players did the same to the opposition. The guilt of the player is not in dispute because an uncontested 8 match ban is proof of that! And a rather late reluctant apology for causing offence and a promise not to do it again was seen as being forced and not sincere. I have no sympathy for the scousers but I've not seen that club dragged into the gutter like this before. If they are not careful they'll become the nasty extreme right's last stand. Dalglish's silence in this last incident is being compared to his immediate (mistaken as it turned out to be wrong) support for Suarez. Why can't he say he condemned any act of racism? the fans look to him and his actions whether he likes it or not. A bad incident has turned into a disaster and it is mainly of his own making.
Just have a scroll down Patrice Evra's Facebook page. Says all you need to know about racism and Liverpool supporters I'm afraid.
Yea perhap it's in the genes - scousers are born racist perhaps? Are Evertonians racist too? Or perhaps it was the pledge we took when we started to support Liverpool that we would also be a racist too? You are a ****ing moron. Some Liverpool fans may be racist, but they would be racist regardless of whether they supported Liverpool or not.
the scousers fans think they are knowledgeable football fans but when it comes to sensitivity to wider issues like racism they are far far behind the rest. If you look at their board, instead of condemning that idiot (and we all have our share!) they attack the poor Oldham lad further, blaming him for being too sensitive, thin skinned, conspiracy by a manc, etc etc. They only just avoided blaming him for being black!!! But I blame Dalglish for showing poor and pathetic leadership. This episode has damaged him. It is a shame that his record has now been tarnished forever.
That we are even debating whether scousers are racists or not shows how much of a PR disaster Dalglish has inflicted on your club. I have no doubt that the club's unwise and stupid stance on Suarez - T-shirt, awful denigration of the FA and Evra, talk of conspiracy - caused this moron to abuse that poor Oldham lad. I wouldn't say that scousers are more racist than any other regional group in the country. The club is in the gutter. The management and owners need to do a lot of work to retrieve the situation. If they think the club has dealt wioth this situation well they are burying their heads in the sand. They will have deserved all the widespread castigation and condemnation coming their way.
