Am I the only one bemused by the silence over at OT regarding the Rio Ferdinand twittegate?! Slur Alex was all too ready to pas on his valuable advice to our HR manager about getting rid of Luis Suarez but seems to be remaining extremely tight lipped over the Rio error of judgement! Come on Bacon Face, show us what you're made of if you dare! Or am the ever hopeful once again!
you'd wonder more about the FA... they do sweet FA unless it's johnny foreigner. the funny thing is suarez will light up the olympics and the racially obtuse british media will have to grin and bear thier hatred, uruguay to win the olympics IMO... gold for suarez. ferguson to be raging.
Fergie only slates his players in public if they want to leave OT so unless plug is leaving anytime soon his silence will remain as loud as it is now.
They'd better make sure Rio shakes both Terry's and Ashley Cole's hand at the next Utd-Chelsea match. Unless the FA have managed to get rid of handshakes altogether by then in their kneejerk panic.
the police are now going to arrest the guy who wrote it firs ton the twitter feed... not rio. as per usual the famous person gets away with it.
How Does that work? Did Rio not retweet/quote the tweet with an affirmative additional comment? Not saying the guy & hence Rio should be arrested at all but how can they arrest one & not the other?
Brazil to win the Olympics, possibly uruguay or spain in the final. ( darkhorse team Mexico) Like MFG said, they will just say " The issue is too touchy so no shaking hands" While with us, they had about 4 cameras around Suarez and Evra, it was like FIFA, you could see it in action cam, tele cam, end to end, whatever you wanted. It was ****.
Never mentioned anything about Suarez commenting, I was stating fergie was quick to comment on the Suarez/Liverpool stance!
I'm not sure if retweeting can actually be classed as a offense ? All twitter users should be arrested in my opinion
True but (and I'm not making a direct comparison here or again I'm not actually saying either should have been arrested): If one guy prints a signed (legally defined) racist poster and sticks it on lamp posts and another guy takes one off a lamp post and sticks it on his front door with a note saying "this is class" surely both are guilty of racism. Now, despite my posts on the Utd thread regarding this type of phraseology; I honestly don't think either are (or if legally at present they in fact are)shouldn't be guilty of anything other than socially unacceptable outbursts. But then, I'm of the opinion that if Terry & Suarez Actually said what they were accused of they shouldn't be criminalised either. I'm a free speech however unpleasant kind of guy. The alternative is 1984. Twitter and the Internet is either going to make a mockery of these types of laws or hasten our journey towards Orwells nightmare.
Totally agree with you Eric. I walked into the pub a couple of weeks ago, and a few mates said "we've been following you on Twitter" "Oh no you ****ing well haven't" was my reply - "you've been following someone with the same name, ya bunch of twats"
Love that last line: didn't exactly work out like that though & that's the very point isn't it? Just out of interest do you perchance have the direct interview with Suarez. Not that I don't trust selective quotes from a Man United Blog of course.
I'd be quite happy to go back to 1984....European Cup, League, League Cup and Rushie banging in nearly 50 goals (My dad took me to my first ever match that year too). Seriously though DF I am totally with you on this one. Socially we are now entering dangerous territory. I'm not a twitter user because I dont really care what anybody else had for breakfast or what time they picked the kids up from school but the fact is the internet and certainly instant access to other peoples thoughts and lives through social media has effectively altered human psychology and sociology. Policing of peoples thoughts is what we could be about to witness. Now it is racism which I can always see the case for trying to stamp out but what will "they" clamp down on next? It's always hard to argue when dealing with such emotive issues as racism when it is discussed in simple terms...but these things arent simple....and is this just the thin end of the wedge?? Where do we draw the line and more importantly WHO draws the line?? Do we rely on our morally perfect politicians to decide what we can think and not think?? Will I one day get locked up for putting two question marks when one would suffice?? we're all dooooomed........
