Sensitive subject alert that may well unsettle a few folks-. But to me it's all relative and I make absolutely no apologies if it does-
A little while back on here, there was a heated discussion on the Bernardo Silva/ Bernard Mendy incident. Through which a good few folks tried to brush it off as something and nottin. With a few of our foreign friends going as far as saying it was just Brits overreacting and going as far as to call us 'snowflakes' comparted to their experiences of such in their own Country's. Which was widely seen to be backed up by the whole offensive mess being handled SO badly by City who treated it very lightly, to say the least.
Fast forward to yesterday and you get the abhorrent disgrace of the blatant racism as caught clearly above from the same clubs supporters to Utd players.
Coincidence in the two incidents happening in such a short period of time or just an absolute low-life disgracing himself and everyone else?
I'd tend to think, when something like this is SO uncommon at not only PL football grounds now but the one concerned, of it as the former and it being NO coincidence.
For reference, the very same despicable thing happened at Anfield after the Suarez/ Evra debacle which Liverpool, like City with Silva, handled so poorly. The ONLY time such outrageous, open racism like that has been seen at either club in YEARS-
A football fan is banned from matches for four years after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.
www.bbc.co.uk
If those aren't connected, then that's two **** of a coincidence happening when it's SO out of the norm.
Gary Neville was fantastic after the game on Sky in bringing up the current disgrace that is this Country's Prime Minister and his overt, bigoted, racist views. (Which unbelievably got attacked on Social Media.). And the patent parallels to how 'acceptable' racism from the top clearly affects society. (Hate Crime has seen a BIG jump through this election campaign ..... Certain Politicians in power continue to use such inflammatory language against foreigners/ minorities ..... It doesn't take Einstein to connect the dots.).
If you excuse ANY form of racism at the very top (however unintentional the Silva debacle was), you allow and encourage it to prosper further down. As we saw to everyone's shock and disgust yesterday.
Hopefully, if anything good is to come out of yesterdays disgrace in the Manchester Derby, the next football club who has to deal with such issues with one of its players will learn from the knock-on effects of how they deal with the matter.
And we should ALL think on that too when we laugh casual racism off as being inoffensive/ just some folk being over sensitive.