ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[Antonio Barragan]

That's all I'm reading there.

Not really, I just think all the faux-outrage is a bit rich in some cases.

 

[Matt Damon]

Not really, I just think all the faux-outrage is a bit rich in some cases.

Well you'd know as a fan of Liverpool Football Club. Faux-outrage is your thing. Over pretty much anything.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Antonio I can't say for definite because you don't know until it happens.
However, if Moyes had acted like Dalglish I would want him sacked.
I would not attend Goodison while Suarez played for us. I'm not just blowing smoke, we were previously linked with Lee Hughes and if he signed I would do the same. I wanted Pienaar jailed for his drink driving.
Your club and manager is responsible for this mess as they have dodged responsibility and whipped up the fans into a paranoid frenzy. Yes every club has morons who follow them but you can thank your king for bringing yours out of the woodwork.

 

[Antonio Barragan]

Antonio I can't say for definite because you don't know until it happens.
However, if Moyes had acted like Dalglish I would want him sacked.
I would not attend Goodison while Suarez played for us. I'm not just blowing smoke, we were previously linked with Lee Hughes and if he signed I would do the same. I wanted Pienaar jailed for his drink driving.
Your club and manager is responsible for this mess as they have dodged responsibility and whipped up the fans into a paranoid frenzy. Yes every club has morons who follow them but you can thank your king for bringing yours out of the woodwork.

I get what you mean with this post but I think with Suarez it's forgivable. What he said was offensive but I don't think he's genuinely a racist person.

 

[Jib in lad]

There's little excusing a lot of the fallout of this Suarez incident but I honestly do question if it were to happen to an Everton player whether the fan reaction would be any different. I'm sure the club PR would be significantly better, but all this booing and the likes: can you honestly say Everton are immune to it? The thing is, there's racism in an absolute minority in a lot of football grounds and if it hadn't have been for the publicity associated with the Suarez case and the events following, I doubt that one man in a crowd of 45,000 making a ****ing stupid gesture would be headline news. I think a lot of our fans have let themselves down over these events but I think the associated ****storm on this thread is a bit rich considering it's all circumstance at the end of the day.

Its Dalglish who caused all of it you fool he is to blame , are you ****ing stupid .

Nobody is saying that there isnt racism at every ground in the country .

 

[Matt Damon]

I get what you mean with this post but I think with Suarez it's forgivable. What he said was offensive but I don't think he's genuinely a racist person.

He's defo a snide and was prepared to use racist language to get his snidey way - and Evra sent off. Then he and Liverpool Football Club tried to snide their way out of it. Which massively backfired.

But as you know. Racism is very snide behaviour. So it was to be expected coming from some in your crowd. Just imitating their "heroes" on the pitch, aren't they?

 

[Frank Drebin]

I get what you mean with this post but I think with Suarez it's forgivable. What he said was offensive but I don't think he's genuinely a racist person.

Ok thinking about it I probably wouldn't stop going because of him. I would have for Hughes though or King, baffles me how people could to be honest.
I don't believe Suarez is racist but I think he
tried to offend Evra by using racist language.
The actions, lies and lack of apology speaks
volumes for his character , I think he's a good player but a poor human being.

 

[Clint Planet]

There's little excusing a lot of the fallout of this Suarez incident but I honestly do question if it were to happen to an Everton player whether the fan reaction would be any different. I'm sure the club PR would be significantly better, but all this booing and the likes: can you honestly say Everton are immune to it? The thing is, there's racism in an absolute minority in a lot of football grounds and if it hadn't have been for the publicity associated with the Suarez case and the events following, I doubt that one man in a crowd of 45,000 making a ****ing stupid gesture would be headline news. I think a lot of our fans have let themselves down over these events but I think the associated ****storm on this thread is a bit rich considering it's all circumstance at the end of the day.

There should be zero tolerance of any forms of racism in football, on and off the pitch. Simple as that. Liverpool FC have singularly failed to uphold this principle and in so doing have embarrassed themselves and the city of Liverpool. For this they deserve criticism.

Just what is your point, Antonio?

Stick your "ah, buts" and "what ifs" where the sun don't shine. You're beginning to sound like King Kenny Kanute.

 

[canuckblue]

Liverpool Football Club.
Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.

 

[urs]

a Manchester United fan has been charged for shouting racist abuse at Stoke players during a Premier League game and thus far is has hardly been reported in the British press.

Howard Hobson of Manchester is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence and using threatening words or behavior to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

The 57-year-old fan was arrested at Old Trafford on Tuesday after a spectator who heard the comments complained to stewards. Hobson is to appear at Trafford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Statistics for arrests for racist chanting since 2008-09:

Bolton – 7
Spurs – 7
Blackburn – 6
Aston Villa, Stoke, Man United – 5
Chelsea -4
Sunderland, Liverpool, Everton – 1
Fulham, Man City – 0

 

[Blue 1]

Well that figure for libpewl is wrong, you had monkey man and the feller who yelled at adeyemi just in the last few weeks.

 

[peteblue]

Well that figure for libpewl is wrong, you had monkey man and the feller who yelled at adeyemi just in the last few weeks.

That was just banter........

 

[bluejock]

That and the fact the Everton one was someone calling Saha a lazy French [Poor language removed].

 

[Clint Planet]

a Manchester United fan has been charged for shouting racist abuse at Stoke players during a Premier League game and thus far is has hardly been reported in the British press.

Howard Hobson of Manchester is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence and using threatening words or behavior to cause harassment, alarm or distress.

The 57-year-old fan was arrested at Old Trafford on Tuesday after a spectator who heard the comments complained to stewards. Hobson is to appear at Trafford Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.

Statistics for arrests for racist chanting since 2008-09:

Bolton – 7
Spurs – 7
Blackburn – 6
Aston Villa, Stoke, Man United – 5
Chelsea -4
Sunderland, Liverpool, Everton – 1
Fulham, Man City – 0

Did you run, panting, from RAWK with that written on a piece of paper, you utter bell?

 

[Frank Drebin]

Well that figure for libpewl is wrong, you had monkey man and the feller who yelled at adeyemi just in the last few weeks.

May as well add forty thousand who abused a victim of racial abuse too.