You'd be taking an awfully big gamble. It's also disrepectful to call Chelsea a disgrace without having all the facts. It's very wrong to pre judge anyone in this scenario, its not as if there is a video of it.
I can bet every single penny I have to my name that he was not racist to Mikel. And when it gets found out to be a load of **** then Clattenburg will sue Chelsea and not only that but the FA wont be happy. Chelsea football club has terned into an absolute disgrace
If Clattenburg was racist the 4th offical would have heard, 1 linesman would have heard and another linesman would have heard. If he was racist it would have come out by nowYou'd be taking an awfully big gamble. It's also disrepectful to call Chelsea a disgrace without having all the facts. It's very wrong to pre judge anyone in this scenario, its not as if there is a video of it.
If Clattenburg was racist the 4th offical would have heard, 1 linesman would have heard and another linesman would have heard. If he was racist it would have come out by now
How can you say Chelsea arent a disgrace? Not just this but did you see what they did to Terry for being racist to Ferdinand?
First off they have done nothing wrong here. Secondly you could also point the finger at the FA for taking 12 months and not having stronger tariffs.
I agree with the FA. The only reason it took 12 months was because of the Euro's. For Chelsea to come out and say they are completly against all forms off racism takes the **** after doing virtually nothing to Terry. Remeber Cole shooting someone on work experiance? What happened to him? Then a youth team player sets off a smoke bomb and gets sacked... If it was a youth team player found to be racist he would be gone.
On the FA note as well they should be ashamed as well. 4 games for racism? I could get more if I was a manger for telling a ref to **** off.
Chelsea gave a whopping fine to Terry, banned a fan for life for abusing Drogba, will no doubt find the moron from the pic abusing another player. They are trying to get rid of this sickening cancer in football so I do think it's a bit harsh on the club. Personally I still think they should have also stripped the captaincy but that's a seperate issue as it's a personal thought. But they are trying to do something about it. They've done a **** of a lot more than UEFA will ever do put it that way
They could have done more, but they have done a lot more than the organisation said to be leading the fight (UEFA).
Actually it turns out the FA could have taken action long before the Euros, and they had the power to prevent him from going to the Euros. As for Cole, players do stupid things, like drive to fast etc, they dont all get fired.
Ever gave thought how disrespectful your actions were to Ferdinand? Do you not see how it perfectly mirrors what you did?
That's the point of the banner, you cant have it both ways. For you to call its disrespectful or cuntish, is to tacitly admit the actions of the Chelsea fans were the same.
I agree with the FA. The only reason it took 12 months was because of the Euro's. For Chelsea to come out and say they are completly against all forms off racism takes the **** after doing virtually nothing to Terry. Remeber Cole shooting someone on work experiance? What happened to him? Then a youth team player sets off a smoke bomb and gets sacked... If it was a youth team player found to be racist he would be gone.
On the FA note as well they should be ashamed as well. 4 games for racism? I could get more if I was a manger for telling a ref to **** off.
His fine isn't really huge if you think about it though. I mean yes, when you consider football associations are fined about 10k when their fans are racist it is, but if you think that a fine has to be a message and a deterrent to the player then it has to be related to salary. For most people you'd be paying legal costs + opponents costs + whatever the 'penalty' is, and in the case of most employers, the fact you've been accused and prosecuted and let off on a technicality would likely void you for employment under internal employer rules, and were you incarcerated you'd still have to pay to maintain your assets etc. If you view what was effectively two weeks fine as all it was, then it was rather meagre.
If you look it another way, it was two weeks wages he was fined, effectively. I realise its difficult to forget the sum is thousands of pounds, but if you consider a punishment actually has to punish the individual, has to act as a deterrent.. then really how significant is this? It may have been the largest fine thus far, but what does that mean in terms of punishment? If I am found guilty of inappropriate behaviour, assuming I'm a hedge fund manager or somesuch, and my employer fines me 1m for racism it may be the largest fine ever for racism, but for me, it's just a drop in the ocean as I'm paid upwards of 30m a year (in the case of that particular role).
Do you see what I mean? Punishment has to actually hurt the individual, otherwise it's just this ridiculous situation where you try to imply that a 'huge fine' which would bankrupt many people was actually a harsh punishment, yet it was undoubtedly not. Looking at current earnings, sponsorships etc, you'd probably have to increase it by a factor of 10 to actually be significant enough to warrant such a breach in behaviour.
Right so you have to stoop down to our level yeah? Fact is that displaying the banner was stupid and idiotic...
Go on then...I could point to plenty of cases whereby first-team players have been let off on lighter punishments that they should have been by their clubs. Stop being so narrow-minded
I can bet every single penny I have to my name that he was not racist to Mikel. And when it gets found out to be a load of **** then Clattenburg will sue Chelsea and not only that but the FA wont be happy. Chelsea football club has terned into an absolute disgrace