Spitting is absolutely disgusting, as is El Hadji Diouf.
Elmo has proven she is the ultimate unreasonable, emotion-driven apologist by making excuses for him. Spitting is a Senegalese medical practice? Get to absolute ****.
How does that validate or justify this act of aggression in any way?
To accept Diouf for his misdemeanours is to accept Cantona. He did similar things, spitting at a Leeds fan and kicking a Palace fan. Do we accept his bad manners as passion? No. Because it's beyond that - it's self-addiction. To hell with the pair of them. Similar specimens.
DIOUF OUT - WARNOCK OUT.
Thought I'd interrupt my holiday from the South of France to say this because I feel so strongly about it.

'warnock out'
what a load of tosh.
'diouf out' fair enough.
but in all honesty unless you buy in players with 'chequered' pasts this is the only way you can get in quality without spending big money....
So:
a) drink driving 7 years ago - that has been spent. Many people continue to drink drive, and many footballers get caught. Has he done it again?
b) The Daily Mail focus on Diouf in April 2012 for a brawl in a nightclub, but there is nothing to say from the article other than he was there and was taken by the police. What information is next? When's the court case? Innocent until proven guilty? I've never heard of a footballer being involved in a brawl in a nightclub before though.
c) 6 years ago he has a bust up with his wife. Sorry Simon, but you clearly know nothing about different cultures. No it is not acceptable in our culture, but that is only a recent phenomenon that domestic violence has taken a priority - go back a couple of generations in UK and it was widespread and swept under the carpet
d) So he has not spat ayt anyone since 2004, yet some still castigate him for it? The Daily Telegraph can only find issues prior to 2009, 3 years ago. The last one is an allegation he made a racist comment to a ball boy at Everton - clearly not taken further or not proven. In March 2003 and in Nov 2004 he gets caught for spitting incidents, is punished, it does not happen again, while the other stuff is the type of stuff that is reported about many many people every day of the year in the media. Weak.
e) Reporting of Diouf's sneering at a player he thought was feigning injury but had broken his leg. Mistakes happen - as mentioned above in a previous contribution, this is a macho world and industry and these things happen a lot. Watch any game and people accuse others of diving or cheating or feigning injury all the time. It just so happens Diouf got it wrong in this instance. So what? He did nothing different to every other footballer except get the situation wrong.
f) We know there was something that happened after the Donny game last season, but the police dropped their investigation - clearly just high levels of passion that boiled over. Are you happy McCormack was involved and fighting his corner? Now just turn it round. Nothing here.
All that that list proved is that Diouf courts media attention, and probably gets unwanted and abusive attention from pissed up dickheads in nightclubs too. There's nothing there since 2004 that justifies your opinion of him, because there are a lot of other players who have done exactly the same.
class manager simon, i'd think twice and give him a chance before jumping to conclusions...
Class manager, yes, but a class person, I'm not so sure now and his judgement can definitely be called into question with this deal IMO.
It clearly gets a bit hot in Le Midi too.
Don't worry, Jerel, I won't take your unreasonable tirade to heart. Have a great holiday![]()
If that was unreasonable, please tell me on ETHICAL, not cultural grounds why pathetic and cowardly acts of aggression like woman-beating and spitting are either justifiable, condonable or should in any way be swept under the carpet merely because some idiot has decided to sign the perpetrator for Leeds.
El Hadji Diouf is scum, just like Cantona, George Best, Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs, Roy Keane, Wayne Rooney, David De Gea, Patrice Evra and all the other criminal and immoral ****wits that have populated that club. He has the scum mentality. I don't want ****ing scum at Leeds. Shame on you if you do, apologist. Leeds is about being firm, strong and passionately hard-working, not being a mercurial, half-arsed tosser who occasionally spits, abuses and tackles badly.
Shame so many Leeds fans don't know what Dirty Leeds actually means, in terms of the Revie philosophy. The Don wouldn't have wiped his arse with a rodent like Diouf.
He will live or die on his results.
If I was Senegalese I would be insulted by that statement which I have put in bold. Your almost condoning domestic abuse because "he is Senegalese and it's part of their culture". Being a third world country does not make a country less developed morally, especially when religion such a predominant part of their lives.
Throughout this thread you've asked for proof/evidence to back things up, where is yours that Senegal has more domestic violence counts?
How you can defend Diouf is ridiculous.
Giving a back-hand to your missus in the UK was a perfectly acceptable practice a generation or so ago. Spanking your kids is still done by many in UK. If you have read the Koran you will understand a little about the muslim culture and the way that women are treated -absolutely revered in most circumstances but treated poorly and allowed to be beaten "lightly" in some circumstances. Under some circumstances, some women are stoned to death in some countries. Domestic violence is defined differently also, along with family honour.
If you do not wish to open your eyes to the ways that other peoples deal with things, nor to the fact that we as a nation have not yet stopped domestic violence, I can not help you.
I do not condone anythign he has done. I say that there could be cultural reasons why it is not as frowned upon in their culture - but my main point is that, since 2004, none of those things have happened. So he has learnt. Yet some still berate him.
I despair sometiomes at the intransigence of some.
I'm over the moon with this signing, he has some class on the pitch and some real quality, what the media write about him bothers me not one ****ing bit. Where a football team, he's a football player and at this level a very good one. That's all that matters to me.
Sold after threatening a team-mate = 2009
No licence or insurance + 2 other unnamed driving offences = 2010
Arrested after brawl in nightclub = April this year
1. Maybe the team mate deserved it.
2. Diouf ...No insurance, the lad probably has enough money in his wallet to buy my car 10 times over.
3. Haven't we all?
I have 2 mates that support Donny, and they thought he was their best player. I'm not saying he's premiership class but what I'm told he can do a job, and the scenes if he spits in Jordan Rhodes face.
1. He wouldn't have been sold.
2. No licence or insurance as well as the other 2 unnamed ones, but he has money so it's OK?
3. No we haven't.
It's wouldn't be difficult to be Donny's best player last season.
He's clearly a pretty unsavoury character, it's fine to say that doesn't matter if that's honestly you're opinion, but I really don't see how people can dress it up as a different culture or media perception.
Well I'm not wanting to look to much into it, because the main thing our opinion differs on is i think he will add to the team performances, and you don't.
All the rest of it, i couldn't care. If he helps Leeds get promoted, the rest is old news.
