So, in the news today it says that 6 Millwall fans have been arrested after displaying an offensive banner aimed at Bolton striker Melvin Sordell. This offensive banner was displayed in reaction to an incident where a 13 year old Millwall fan was banned from the New Den, after he racially abused Melvin Sordell. Last week a Chelsea was arrested after being caught on camera making racist gestures in reaction to the reports that Mark Clattenburg used racially inappropriate language to Jon Obi Mikel. This happened either though Clattenberg is yet to be found guilty or not guilty. We also saw a major backlash from crowds and the media following the John Terry and Anton Ferdinand case. Following the Suarez and Evra case a Liverpool fan was arrested after making racially abusive gestures to Patrice Evra. A lot of heat developed between Liverpool and United fans during the period of time around this case and caused a lot of problems and bad influence. Luis Suarez has received a lot of undeserved abuse from fans, been treated appalling by referees and even gets looked down upon by tv pundits, who cannot compliment him with out balancing it out with a negative point. All of these cases have also been heavily affected by the media. The media have used there influence to play with the issue, and influence its out come. The media pressured the FA into stripping Terry of the England captaincy (months before he went on to be found not guilty in a criminal court) and I feel the FA also handed out over sized punishments as a result of media pressure. I also feel that Joey Barton was harshly treated at the end of last season due to media pressure on the FA. Even Robbie Savage said he felt Barton was treated unfairly. I strongly feel that a lot of the current issues we are hearing of at the moment would not be happening if the FA dealt with these cases in private. Giving out no information to the media or public in areas where it could have been avoided. With the Suarez case I think it would have been much more professional and much fairer on both players if they made two statements. One saying: 'We have received a complaint about an apparent incident that happened during the Liverpool Manchester United game earlier today that we will be investigating. We will be giving out no further information on this complaint'. Not even mentioning the player or team of the player who has been complained about. And later one saying: 'Following an investigation we have had to hand Luis Suarez the following ......... We will not be giving out any more information about this incident or what occurred during the game'. I think if this had happened, so much could have been avoided. (I know that the Terry and Barton incidents are different as they were caught on TV camera). People have been arrested because they reacted in anger to certain incidents. The public, the media, pundits and referees have all been influenced in a bad way. The 13 year old at Millwall may well have been influenced by media coverage of recent racism cases. He may not have even understood what he is saying. But he said it. When I was that age I only new monkey noises were racist because of seeing England football matches played abroad where foreign crowds have done monkey chants. People and the media think they have a right to know these things, but they do not. We need to bring back privacy and do thngs behind closed doors. What are your thoughts on this. I feel the FA should take a fair piece of responsibility for the current backlash going on at football games. No one can deny that all this is gold for the media. Thats how the media work, they want this to go on for as long as they can make it so that they can milk it or every thing they can.
The FA are ****ing ridiculous. In France, Yann M'Villa has been banned from playing for France for breking a curfew and going clubbing when he wasn't supposed to. Alright, this may seem harsh. But the point is, they lay down the rules and they dealt with the situation within a month behind closed doors. If that was the FA the specualation would go on for months.
The media love it as it gives them shyte to fill their paper with that requires very little or no investigative journalism. Then there are the shysters who work in the racism industry who then pump the media to justify their own existence and very often inflated salaries.
