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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
According to Luis Suarez he didn't at all and nobody can prove it beyond reasonable doubt. Since when did facts have less
value than heresay?
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Suarez admitted to saying it but disputed the context. Which means Evra getting all the abuse was unacceptable. No one outside of Manchester and Liverpool cares about the rivalry. So when they see Evra getting booed and the LFC statement calling him a liar for suggesting he heard the word that Suarez admitted to saying then we object. Evra isn't especially popular so people were not pre-disposed to taking his side either.
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Should we cheapen the issue of racism in sport by using a petty, childish spat between two overpaid, childish foreign footballers as a show trial to score points against the other idiots who are running the game at a global level? I think not.
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Trying to accuse others of cheapening the issue of racism in the same sentence as dismissing an alleged incidence of such as a childish spat does your case no good at all. Nor does the insistence that this was done to score points against FIFA. The FA and most football clubs have been working on abolishing racism out of the game for a decade now, this has been quite a public effort, and there are prior incidents of racism being taken seriously.
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The media in this country, particularly the sports media number and herd the masses like sheep, it's beyond laughable.
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No, it's beyond laughable that Liverpool think that they alone see the clarity in this issue when everyone else thinks the club have handled this poorly. You really think all the media and the public have gotten this wrong? Sorry but you can't dismiss everyone as an idiot just because they disagree with Liverpool's take on the matter. Such accusations are the refuge of the conspiracy theorist.
The alternative interpretations that vindicate Liverpool can make you all look like fools. Yesterday Liverpool fans were bombarding the internet with photoshops and camera angles to suggest that Evra pulled his hand away from Suarez first, and it was in fact Evra who refused to shake hands. Yet when Match of the Day showed the entire footage from different angles it became apparent that this was another fabrication designed to turn Evra into the guilty party and Suarez into the victim. An attempt foiled by both the actual footage and Liverpool's welcome apologies today.
Again, no neutral cares about the stupid rivalry. Yet the majority think Liverpool have handled this badly. We're not all anti-Liverpool, in fact most neutrals quite like Liverpool because of the history of the club. You find tremendous support for the club when they want justice for Hillsborough and there was great sympathy for the fans of the club when they were taken over by idiots. So don't try to dismiss criticism of the club as something other than what it is. Your not convincing anyone outside of Liverpool with this argument.
Take a step back from the conspiracy theories and the siege mentality and ask yourself why a popular club finds itself under barrage from almost every quarter? Do you really think they have all been duped or '
herded like sheep'? Do you really think that Liverpool, the club that employ the player in question, are somehow the only ones who can see this clearly or do you think that you might have comprised your judgement?
Liverpool are free to maintain Suarez's innocence. They are not free to continue their attitude towards Evra nor to allege that this whole thing has been some sworded conspiracy against Liverpool or Fifa. It's tiresome and no one is buying.
Take a step back.