This game highlighted how unenlighted football fans and players are. With Suarez refusing to shake hands with Evra after been accused of racially abusing him. Then there were scuffles in the tunnel and then Evra milking the applause from the crowd in front of Suarez. Dalgish didn't condemn any of this and even wore a shirt supporting suarez in a previous game. Football is full of cheats who dive to get penalties and fake injuries, and then knowone every asks them why they do it.
Also the fact that there has only ever been one known gay footballer, Justin Fashanu, who killed himself because he was villified so much. Football really needs to get with the programme.

I would have thought on here, of all places, that kangaroo court of a 'three man tribunal' that branded Suarez guilty purely on the 'balance of probabilities' (which amounted to no more than one man's word against another's), would have been condemned. The stupid handshake ritual shouldn't have happened (as it didn't when John Terry was involved) but I don't blame Suarez at all for refusing to shake the hand of a liar. That ghastly leaping around at the end by Evra ( a man whose previous attempt to get Chelsea groundstaff branded racists was thrown out of court) was far worse. The media coverage was sickening.


(For those not familiar with the case: Suarez, a man who can barely speak English, was summoned to recall details of an incident that happened several months before. It was deemed his recollections were 'unreliable' because of their vagueness and minor inaccuracies. Then Evra was summoned, but before he spoke a large TV was wheeled in and the incident was replayed repeatedly in slow motion whilst he 'recollected' what happened. His testimony was deemed to be much more reliable because of its remarkable accuracy. Really, this scandalous FA tribunal makes most law courts seem competant. It stinks, and yet the football writers, keen to push an anti-racism campaign, have seized on it so eagerly they simply will not entertain even the possibility that the case is corrupt. THAT is why Dalglish, a decent man, has fought all of this humbug. I cannot believe on here, in this forum, with all that people know about so many other cases, this merciless witchhunt would be rubberstamped as legitimate.)

See here for a splendid deconstruction of the case:

newsframes.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/media-on-racism-churnalism/

Amazing how once a body - any body so it would seem, including the FA Kangaroo Court - delivers a "verdict" it is taken into fact.
The verdict was wrong - probably. Suarez still denies he made a racist insult. Why then would he want to shake the hand of a man who has got labelled and condemned as such. You can bet your bottom Fergie would be just as contrite as Kenny if the boot was on the other foot - nay, much more so - Ferguson would be absolutely outraged and behave accordingly.

Great blog post you quoted there Pru!

As my grandmother would say - It's a load of fuss over nothing.

Why are Liverpool fans so denial ? They don't blame Hillsborough on themselves even thou it was at their end, Heysel which killed 39 and this Suarez saga which they are defending. No wonder they are so hated I hate them to.

That's enough hate thank you Andrew.
My own feeling about this entire saga - don't know, don't care, not interested.

Thank god people didn't think the same about your own case JK. Not a good comment all the same, although thank you for the remarks about the previous poster's poisonous comments.

Oh I think 99.9% felt exactly that way about my case Pru, and quite right too. Most of the problems in the world today are of no interest or concern to anybody other than those directly involved. And most of the trouble with "celebrities" is that they think many more people are interested in them than the tiny reality.

I know, JK, but that doesn't make it right. Any injustice is - should be - a cause for our concern.