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The Birmingham Six were six men—Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker—sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 in the United Kingdom for the Birmingham pub bombings.The jury found the six men guilty of murder.Their convictions were declared unsafe and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991. The six men were later awarded compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2
million.

not very bright yourself ensil ....... meh i'm bored of you now

Hash, whats the % of convictions overturned out of interest under UK law?
 
On that note i'm off.

Past experience would suggest you're probably **** stirring Ensil, but I could be wrong.
 
I am a supporter of another club and find the FA's stance hypocritical, misguided and trying to give off a "look at us we're so big and clever" look to the rest of Europe.

The FA used to be on the oppsite side of the scale thats why, around teh world they have a terrible record with raciial discrimination in the past, they are trying to undo that
 
I'm sorry..But Suarez cannot go round calling people negrito this or that..I wouldn't put up with it at work so why should someone put up with it on the pitch? The same thing he got charged with is the same thing John Terry's getting charged with. When you start generalizing people by colour your treading a very fine line. So to say negrito is not offensive, no it isn't, but when you aim it at people it is.
 
Suarez gave them all the evidence they need by admitting calling him negrito.

And don't give me it acceptable in his home country. Where he played before it was also acceptable to smoke weed in pubs - should he get away with that in England aswell.

I don't think he intented to be racist but you can't excuse ignorance.

As far as I'm concerned, it should most definitely be acceptable to smoke weed in pubs <ok>
 
You mean it was a compliment <laugh>

Negrito:

adj. black, of the color black; of or pertaining to an ethnic group having brown to black skin and hair; dark; without light; (derogatory in modern usage) negro (Anthropology), dark-skinned, black-skinned, of Black and dark-skinned African races
n. member of an ethnic group having brown to black skin and hair; African American; black, color black

So, what part of the above isn't a racist insult?

Oh deary me! It used to be a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, it now appears a keyboard is the modern equivalent!

Would this be the definition from the online talking dictionary? The same one that if you scroll down shows that the nearest Spanish translation actually means 'black child' according to what is hardly a reputable source.
http://www.dictionarist.com/negrito

There is a difference between being found 'guilty' (note the quotation marks that you failed to notice on the original post and can be used to imply irony) by a 3man FA panel and being PROVEN guilty under what we know to be a fair and legally recognized trial. Sepp Blatter 'found' there was no corruption within FIFA, but subsequent examination of the facts have since led to a special committee being set up to investigate. Now you are assuming that the FA have come to a decision that would stand up in a court of law, whereas many of us Liverpool fans- having been told by our club there is as little evidence as we originally believed- are now wondering exactly how Suarez was indeed found guilty, and are pledging to support him in the meantime.

If you could please stop imposing yourself as some kind of moral and legal force then that would be appreciated as you are clearly neither.

Also at what point did the term 'black' even become offensive? I have brown hair, will people eventually have to describe it as 'fine threadlike strands of a color produced by mixing *acceptable definition of red*, *acceptable definition of yellow*, and *acceptable definiton of black*, as of dark wood or rich soil'? There are definitely words with racist connotations out there but when do we get to the point where we can just use words for what they were designed for i.e. to describe things!