I'd just like to say thanks, and fair comments from everyone. and I totally understand some people's mindsets that some of our fan base will mindlessly get behind anything with a them against us attitude. I'm probably guilty as charged with that too for some things. But I'm going to copy and paste something I wrote on RAWK about Suarez affair and football in general, because I'm sick to f*cking death of it all at times -
"Look, I'm not going to blame anyone for spouting s*ite because the oxygen is a little thinner from up on their moral pulpit. But you know what? I actually don't give a flying [Poor language removed] that he bit Ivanovic. I don't give a flying sh*te what he called Evra any more. I couldn't give a shiney sh*te if he pulled Fabio's hair, dived like Tom Daley, stamped on some [Poor language removed]'s foot or anything else that he might be accused of. Do you know why I feel like this? It's certainly not because I don't possess basic morals and scruples; it's because football doesn't. They allow people to get away with all sorts of sh*te week in and week out. Calling someone a traditional cultural colloquialism is the same as calling someone a ****ing black [Poor language removed] in football's eyes. Homophobia is worth a fine, although homophobic tweeting in an intentional offensive way is worth only £7,000 while doing it as an in-joke, no matter how daft it was, between two friends is worth a £10,000 fine. A player slipping while he goes to make a tackle is worth a three game ban while a lad deliberately jumping two footed onto another player is ok because a ref didn't think it was all that bad. Stamping on a player's chest not seen by the ref but caught on youtube complete with slo-mo and a boss techno soundrack is not worth punishing, but it's worth 4 games if you're Mario Balotelli. A yellow card is sufficient for a bite or is it a 10 game ban? Football and all the governing bodies, not just the FA, are a simmering cesspool of f*cking s*ite, and it's time we stopped judging football by the same moral yardsticks of every day life. Do you honestly think whether we throw one of our own to the wolves or condemn another player from a team for kicking a ball boy, or just shrug our shoulders to it all, anything meaningful is going to change? Pandora has well and truly opened her box of football morality so I'll just treat it as a separate entity to normal life now. Money, 24 hour media, twitter and bloggers, it's all a f*cking pantomine these days and I'm seriously considering jacking it all in, because the whole f*cking shebang doesn't measure up to my personal standards of morality, so why should I bother picking and choosing what bits do?"
