Old fellows, like myself will remember to the two old codgers on ITV talking about English football, and they regularly described as a funny old game. It was a funny old game then and it s probably a funny old game now forty odd years later. Just remember I am not taking sides, I am just pointing out what I think is strange or funny. Some weeks ago in a WEPL game a Manchester United PLayer said he was racially abused by Liverpool player. Of course the Liverpool player denied it but the WEFA disciplinary committee heard all the available evidence and found the Liverpool's player evidence totally unreliable and suspended the player for 8 matches double what was normal. Before seeing the report King Kenny ranted and roared about the injustice. When Liverpool got the report they decided not to appeal and so their player has started his suspension. Now the funny thing is at the weekend a Liverpool fan is alleged to have made a racist comment or remark about one of the players on the opposing side. He has already spent one night locked up and will probably spend a longer time in jail and will be banned from Anfield and probably other WEPL grounds for life. Is that fair, on the one hand you have a player earning £6/8 million a year, disrespecting a fellow professional 8 times. Surely, people like him should respect themselves,their fellow professionals and the sport which has them earning in a year or two what most people slog for their whole life. How can a player like that who is pai enough to if he hasn't got it, could pay to learn common decency. His manager spouting off all things about the injustice he was suffering until he saw the d.c. report. Did the manager speak up for the fan, one of the people who pays these enormous wages, no Kenny had no words of sympathy. To sum up,it seems that it isn't too bad if you are earning an open fortune to behave like a prat. However, if you are a young lad out following your heroes, and you act the prat, the whole world is against you.
Here's a question. Is the only difference between Suarez, and both the Oldham kid and John Terry, that a complaint was officially made to the police? As there is a bit of a difference between an 8 game ban (while still getting payed every week), and spending time in the nick with a criminal record to show for it...
OSP. I would think that as Football likes to think it is a self regulation body, that their aim should be at least the equivalent or greater than what someone could expect to receive in the courts. I t will be interesting if John Terry, who should be more mature and is the Captain of England into the bargain, if he is found guilty through the courts. If the young fellow from Oldham is found quilty, will there be any comparison between the punishment both receive. In all honesty I would expect Terry to receive a fair fair harsher sentence, including ban from every football ground that the court has jurisdiction over. I might be daft, but when I see and read what some of the youth today are up to, I think a teenager or early 20's who goes to football matches is not amongst the worse of his age group and I admire a young fellow who goes.
