Roy Hodgson in race row?!

I'm as liberal as the next guy, but Fran's right, assuming the word "monkey" always carries racist overtones is just nonsensical, and this story rather smacks of an agenda.

 

There is a tacit assumption (or should that be keen anticipation?) in the likes of The Mirror, that the term monkey MUST be as a result of his 1/2 Jamaican heritage. (Surely, THAT'S racist). The majority of monkey-related descriptions I have heard recently have been aimed at Gareth Bale.

 

I don't know about anyone else, but that Peter Herbert chap is quite the irritant.

 

He'll go away as quickly as he appeared.

 

Well, he appeared (into my consciousness at least) in December 2011 regarding the Suarez/Evra affair, so even if you're right, he has another two years left in him!

 

I detest the awful man

 

I think Herbert tries to get noticed because unless he kept telling us he was black no one would notice he was.

 

He did promptly disappear a couple of days later when no one was interested in the (divisive) campaign he was trying to start and told him to bore off.

Fortunately it's Saturday tomorrow so there's finally some actual football to talk about.

 

Isn't that misogynist?

 

To quote the law:

If I think you're being ageist then you are.

 

It's political correctness gone mad!

It's political correctness gone mad!

Political correctness gone mad!

 

You and Peter Herbert deserve each other.

 

Make your mind up matey.

Either I am dismissive of prejudice or I am over sensitive to.

Personally I think I hold a well balanced view.

 

Now a woman is sticking her knitting needle into how football is run. The very nerve.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24592596

 

Torn on the make up of the committee...you would hope to have the most experienced people on it, but aren't they the same people that are part of the problem. I suppose Danny got on there as a pair of new eyes.

 

Doublethink; The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting them both.

- George Orwell

 

In summary "pointless people want to get on pointless committee"

 

I never said you were dismissive of it, I said that you undermined its severity. I didn't say you did that on purpose.

Seems like you're particularly sensitive where it concerns you though (even imagining discrimination to deflect criticism), so I'm not sure you could really call that balanced.

 

I wonder how many football forums there are where Orwell gets quoted.

 

A guy on sky says that it was a player that was a whistle blower but won't name him. There is a need to sort disloyalty out methinks.