Funny word of mouth was enough to punish Suarez but not enough to punish a Ref....
Clattenberg is a fine, white, upstanding member of the FA establishment and a referee. Suarez is a greasy Dago from Latin America whom everyone hates apart from liverpool and Ajax fans, and his fellow Uruguayans, of all skin colours. When the FA need a head-on-a-stick to prove how anti-racist they are it's only logical they'd bend and twist their own rules to lynch Jonny Foreigner than sacrifice one of their own by judging him by the same standards.
Many said back last January the FA had set a standard they'd never keep up, and indeed they halved it for one former England captain, let another England captain off with just a fine and completely exonerated one of their own officials charged with the same offence and with the same amount of evidence as Suarez. This may have fended off the mob of rigid, single-interest firebrands and gutter sports journos in England (though given the rantings of Herbert and Roberts you wouldn't bank on it) but the rest of the world is laughing its cock off at us. And every inch they deviate from that template they set themselves there are many of us who won't hesitate to contrast their behaviours.
Mikel to be charged?Ramirez to be held to account? Don't bet on it - more likely that Suarez will be blamed for the whole fiasco.
Suarez could clearly be seen making racist remarks.

