What did Suso do?
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Insane. I'd refuse to pay if it was me.
They only fined him 10 pounds for calling Sterling 'my negrito'
If he had a good lawyer he could have argued he was using the 'gay' word to mean happy and full of joy, as in "Enrique, you luck so fekin gay (happy)".
Unfortunately he was most probably represented by the official LFC lawyer who put up the defence that the word gay is still accepted as a description for homosexuals in Spain and therefore he should be forgiven.
Unfortunately he was most probably represented by the official LFC lawyer who put up the defence that the word gay is still accepted as a description for homosexuals in Spain and therefore he should be forgiven.
Political correctness strikes again.
I've just seen the tweet now, and he should definitely know better. Posting about homosexuality next to a sentence on mental problems was always going to be an issue. It's probably only seeming unjust because of the leniency shown to racist nations time and again where they get fined a similar amount to Suso.
I can't agree. It's a baleful tide that sees people fined and disciplined for stating prohibited opinions. I can't see how anyone who values liberty can accept this sort of nonsense.
I'm not really sure where to stand in the sense that I believe the FA should keep their noses out of things like this, however Suso must have been aware that what he said would incur some sort of reaction and based on precedents set already about this sort of thing, a fine was always likely to happen.
In regards to policing twitter and stuff though, it's clearly difficult. How do you separate between obvious jokes and malicious intent in 140 characters? Should it just be a free-for-all?
He shouldn't have said what he said, it was stupid and did deserve some kind of censure. However, when we have far far worse things being said the 10k fine just looks ridiculous. Lazio, Serbia, every Russian team under The Lying Rag being cases in point.
I'll bet St Petersburg, with their call to ban/avoid anyone who isant white (ideally a Slav) and hetrosexual it makes you wonder.
I'll bet St Petersburg, with their call to ban/avoid anyone who isant white (ideally a Slav) and hetrosexual it makes you wonder.
Why players seem unable to know what to keep private and what to broadcast to the world is beyond me, but most reports are describing this as a 'slur' when it clearly wasn't anything of the sort. Trying to make out players are homophobic (or racist) is just as bad - if not worse - than players posting this silly messages in the first place.
Most footballers don't have the level of intelligence and/or common sense required to be able to navigate social media without coming across as possibly thick, racist, homophobic or prejudiced in some other way.
We all know the media have a habit of blowing things out of proportion and erm.. making stuff up but that seems to be the world we live in. How much blame can you lay on the players when the knives are out I don't know, but it doesn't require much commonsense to refrain from saying these comments in the first place, you would think.
Most of them are from a generation who don't seem to have any sense of what's private and what's public. It's bizarre that they don't, but they don't. So two things should happen: one, the clubs should be educating them, and two, the people in the media who know better should focus on real instances of racism and homophobia instead of cynically depicting this sort of nonsense as it.
That would require the media to start acting correctly as opposed to going for quick, cheap, sensationalist headlines.....
Everyone would come across like that if you spent all day analyzing their every word.
Football is gay
I dont think 'all day' analysis is required, they're just not that bright! the annoying 'text-talk' doesn't help them either.
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