Kick it Out Launch mobile App

Medro · Jul 30, 2013

The chairman of Kick It Out has called on the Football Association and clubs to ensure that mistakes of the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases are not repeated as the anti-discrimination group launches its season of action on Tuesday.

Kick It Out will unveil a new mobile phone tool for fans and players to report racist or homophobic abuse.
Lord Herman Ouseley, the chairman of Kick It Out, resigned from the FA Council in December in protest at the governing body's handling of the Terry and Suarez cases, where both players received bans for racially abusing opponents.

Ouseley said clubs and the FA had to shoulder more responsibility, and that clubs had to change the dressing room culture that prevented players from complaining about abuse and deterred gay players from being open about their sexual orientation.
He told the Press Association: 'I resigned because I was very frustrated with the way the matters had been dealt with.
'I pleaded with the FA and the then chairman (David Bernstein) to come out and hold their hands up and say "these were the mistakes we made and they will never happen again".

'The Terry case took a year to be dealt with while with Suarez you had the then Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish flouting the FA's authority and the player not shaking Patrice Evra's hand afterwards.

'The regulatory body must act in a way that tells the victims that this is going to be dealt with in a way that might stop it happening again.'

Ouseley contrasted the reactions of Liverpool and Chelsea to the way Everton had handled Marouane Fellaini's head-butt on Stoke's Ryan Shawcross.

'Fellaini was immediately made to issue an apology by the club, who said it was an unacceptable action and that he would take whatever punishment was handed out,' he said.

'If you take that approach the healing process would start that much quicker. Imagine if Terry or Suarez had held their hands up straightaway.'

Kick It Out's season-long campaign replaces the group's previous "two weeks of action" and marks its 20th anniversary.
The change follows criticism of Kick It Out's response by some players, notably Jason Roberts, and its drive to make clubs take more responsibility for anti-discrimination.

The chairman of Kick It Out has called on the Football Association and clubs to ensure that mistakes of the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases are not repeated as the anti-discrimination group launches its season of action on Tuesday.

Kick It Out will unveil a new mobile phone tool for fans and players to report racist or homophobic abuse.
Lord Herman Ouseley, the chairman of Kick It Out, resigned from the FA Council in December in protest at the governing body's handling of the Terry and Suarez cases, where both players received bans for racially abusing opponents.

Ouseley said clubs and the FA had to shoulder more responsibility, and that clubs had to change the dressing room culture that prevented players from complaining about abuse and deterred gay players from being open about their sexual orientation.
He told the Press Association: 'I resigned because I was very frustrated with the way the matters had been dealt with.

'I pleaded with the FA and the then chairman (David Bernstein) to come out and hold their hands up and say "these were the mistakes we made and they will never happen again".

'The Terry case took a year to be dealt with while with Suarez you had the then Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish flouting the FA's authority and the player not shaking Patrice Evra's hand afterwards.

'The regulatory body must act in a way that tells the victims that this is going to be dealt with in a way that might stop it happening again.'

Saga: The Suarez and Evra row continued when the pair didn't shake hands at the following league meeting
Ouseley contrasted the reactions of Liverpool and Chelsea to the way Everton had handled Marouane Fellaini's head-butt on Stoke's Ryan Shawcross.

'Fellaini was immediately made to issue an apology by the club, who said it was an unacceptable action and that he would take whatever punishment was handed out,' he said.

'If you take that approach the healing process would start that much quicker. Imagine if Terry or Suarez had held their hands up straightaway.'

Kick It Out's season-long campaign replaces the group's previous "two weeks of action" and marks its 20th anniversary.
The change follows criticism of Kick It Out's response by some players, notably Jason Roberts, and its drive to make clubs take more responsibility for anti-discrimination.

The mobile phone app will allow fans and players to report abuse directly to Kick It Out, who will follow up the cases with the football authorities and if necessary the police.

Ouseley said: "Part of the problems that were raised last season were players saying they had complained about an incident and nothing was done about it.

'Some of them never even found out about the outcome of their complaint especially if it was not found in their favour because we had not been involved.

'Now if a player has got a problem they will be able to contact us directly and if they wish anonymously, and we will follow through on the complaint.

'Fans will also be able to contact us if for some reason they don't feel the confidence to report something to a steward.'

Ouseley hopes the new season of action will prompt clubs to take anti-discrimination more seriously rather than view it as a box-ticking exercise over a two-week period.

He said: 'If an incident does happen then clubs need to take responsibility and not blame someone else.'
Ouseley said that clubs had to work to ensure that gay footballers would be accepted in dressing rooms - the late Justin Fashanu is the only British professional footballer who has come out as gay, while United States international Robbie Rogers left English football, announced he was gay and then went to play for Los Angeles Galaxy.

'The clubs have to ensure that the culture of the dressing room does not prevent a player being able to come out and flourish, and that they will be completely supported,' he said. 'Until someone does so it will be hard for others to follow.'
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A great idea, discrimination needs kicked out of football.

They will not be happy about this app.

The Raging Oxter · Jul 30, 2013

Pity someone didn't kick you out yer mother's stomach

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Medro · Jul 30, 2013

StereoTypist said: ↑

Pity someone didn't kick you out yer mother's stomach
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2 replies, 2 "tims" and it appears they are not happy.

The Raging Oxter · Jul 30, 2013

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Medro · Jul 30, 2013

Ya know you've really got to them when all they can do is post gifs

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Medro · Jul 30, 2013

Looks like another victory for Medro and as exactly as I predicted they are not happy.

Patience · Jul 30, 2013

Medro said: ↑

Ya know no one gives a **** about my threads when all they post is gifs
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*****.

The Raging Oxter · Jul 30, 2013

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Medro celebrating his "victory".

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Medro · Jul 30, 2013

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*****.
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People going out of their way to search for gifs to post on my thread, they must give a ****.

Feel free to join in with Dev the saturday night soldier and his boy wonder Julian.

Patience · Jul 30, 2013

Medro said: ↑

People going out of their way to search for gifs to post on my thread, they must give a ****.

Feel free to join in with Dev the saturday night soldier and his boy wonder Julian.
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Yeah, that time consuming chore.

Hurry up and die

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Patience · Jul 30, 2013

"Running with scissors"
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Medro · Jul 30, 2013

Mr D I Sabled said: ↑

Yeah, that time consuming chore.

Hurry up and die
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I would say it is more time consuming than ignoring an article you don't like.

Or maybe they do it just because it's me posting it

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