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If Terry gets away with this scot-free then the FA will have no grounds to charge him and had this not been reported to the police by the member of the public there is no reason to believe that this particular incident would ever see the light of day.
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There is a lot of reason to believe it would have seen the light of day. The FA received a complaint on the same day as the police did and announced they would be looking into it before the police launched an official investigation. The FA started their investigation on the 25th October whereas the Police announced theirs on the 1st of November. The FA rightly creased to make a decision while Police investigations are ongoing.
The idea Terry or any other English player would have gotten away for the same incident is utterly unsubstantiated but even if it was, it would be an argument for them to be punished further - not for Suárez to be let off.
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Suarez on the other hand was charged on the basis of an accusation by another player and his case was heard by a supposedly independent disciplinary committee, appointed by the FA of course.
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There is no supposedly about it. They were independent. This is an FA matter so of course they were appointed by the FA but it's disingenuous to claim they unduly influenced the committee. It's just, along with Terry, another in a series of conspiracy theories coming out of Anfield.
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The problem that the FA now have is that they have accused Suarez of something which will leave him open to potentially libellous actions such as the nonsense printed on the back of some of the red-tops this morning.
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The newspapers are not the FA's problem. They avoided any suggestion of libel by finding Suárez guilty of using a word he admitted to using, although he disputes the context, they didn't call him racist.
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The FA have opened a huge can of worms for themselves and started a war that will end very badly for them.
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Only Liverpool view this as a 'war', it's childish. They are going after Evra, and they are going after the FA over this. They are looking very bad in doing so. I am not sure how it will end badly for the FA since most, if not all, of the mainstream press seems to be scornful of Liverpool's press statement and the t-shirts. The best they can hope for is a legal action that forces the ban to be overturned which let's them keep playing Suárez but will damage Liverpool's image immensely. I am not sure Liverpool or their fans understand how they look from the outside in all of this.
They should have defended the player and quietly went about an appeal. They should not have attacked the accuser. Football has tried very hard to combat racism in the past 10/20 years and the idea that someone should be attacked in an official club statement for making such a complaint to sickening.