Was there not another one since then that he got banned for?
What's he done now?
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Was there not another one since then that he got banned for?
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No. It was "sket"
I know that. Someone else on twitter called Cole that and Rio responded with 'Ha ha Choc Ice - So true' or words to that effect.
Funnily enough Ryan was on the radio talking about Balotelli and how he needs special treatment
He will hardly get a ban for that.
What does sket mean?
I see.
I just heard the FA have given him until Friday to explain himself. As he's been poor lately they'll probably let him off with it.
I don't know why players' representatives don't just cite all the FA employees who've been let off scot free for racist remarks. David Elleray, for example, was allowed to carry on after asking a black ref if he'd got a tan or been down a coal mine. Widely reported, widely denounced, the FA merely 'reminded' him of its code of conduct and announced that the case was closed. The organisation is so hopelessly hypocritical it wouldn't be difficult for a half-decent lawyer to expose it.
But they aren't "role models" in the "public spotlight".
Elleray is. An MBE, a public schoolmaster, a member of the FA Council, chairman of the FA's referees' committee, an employee of both UEFA and FIFA, a specified role model for trainee referees and an FA ambassador. They can't have it both ways.
Our society has made a decision that if you are really good at kicking a ball, that we'll not spend too much time educating you, and shower you with lots of money.
Social media gives these people more reach with that completely neglected brain than the leading minds of a generation.
I just wish he was better at kicking that ball to warrant the fact that he is a sports writers wet dream on a slow news day.
Social media gives these people more reach with that completely neglected brain than the leading minds of a generation.
I just wish he was better at kicking that ball to warrant the fact that he is a sports writers wet dream on a slow news day.
T-shirts printed for tonight?
Have you written to him?
Barney Ronay on Balo-gate:
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/dec/02/mario-balotelli-guilty-of-naivety-not-racism
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/dec/02/mario-balotelli-guilty-of-naivety-not-racism
The hacks are really pissed off that he hasn't blown up any buildings, thrown bundles of money at street people, beaten up a teammate or invaded a convent, so they're retaliating by finding outrage in more basic things, like 'Mario mocks the disabled by walking on two feet'. It's about time someone had a word and actually defended the daft twit.
The whole pathetic lot of them failed at that a very long time ago.
If they genuinely had, they wouldn't still be around. You only have to look at the articles written by the press since Ballotelli's instagram post, and people of the like of Lord Ouseley responding. The majority of people lap this shit up. They want to see footballers fail, and particularly rich famous footballers. This story - or non-story - should have ended when Ballotelli apologised. He did something stupid, but that's all it was. The message he was trying to get over was don't be racist, and he clumsily fucked it up. Eventually he realised despite an initial defensive response - and who the hell hasn't acted defensively as a first reaction when they're criticised (especially by the presumed tonnes of people on twitter who would have hurled abuse at Mario) - that this picture was silly, itself offensive, and he took it down. Liverpool should have had a word as his employer, and that's it.
The problem is that we're living in a world of constant, furious outrage at everything that happens. We worship at the altar of individual footballers and delight at any opportunity to bring them down to size. The FA - in an attempt to appear as anything other than a bunch of incompetent semi-corrupt greedy bastards, leap on this opoortunity to say 'Look at us! Look how decisive we are!' And because it's a footballer being shamed, because it's Ballotelli again, that's all the majority will care about.
Wouldn't take issue with any of that. The fact that they're still around doesn't mean they've genuinely justified their position though - all it does is demonstrate their skill at surviving, much like Blatter at FIFA. Going by the bulk of your post above, I doubt we actually disagree on this.
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