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Holgate Racially Abused By Firmino - The Guardian

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Viennablue said:
What if you’d just pushed your colleague down the stairs for little or no reason? I think then the disciplinary committee might take anything your colleague said to be a “in the heat of the moment” comment and nothing/very little would be done about it. Whereas you would receive a bigger punishment for doing something that could cause actual harm.

Come on mate? “Son of a b” in Spanish or any other language is absolutely fine on a football pitch. If you lip read what players say you’ll find someone calls the ref something worse every single week. I’ve absolutely no problem with the narcos insult. Is it generally ok for real life? No. It is ok at a top level football game in context of other things that are said? Absolutely.

The difference is when racist/homophobic/sexist/xenophobic/sectarian etc comments are made. This is not ok. An investigation is being carried out. It will not be swept under the carpet. A liverpool player was banned for a possibly similar incident a few years ago. He came from a similar part of the world so regional excuses will not wash. If he’s guilty and someone else beside the 2 of them heard it then he’ll be banned.
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Dabluez said:
It may or not be proof of what he said. He could of been charged because they didn't find him to be a credible or reliable witness. The fA will of viewed the footage available and then Rodriguez will of been asked for his account of what happened. If his account didn't tally up with the footage then they would have reason to believe he wasn't credible.
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You don't like auxiliary verbs do you?
 

Dabluez said:
Your post started with the word didn't which is past tense.

Your post indicated that Holgate 'didn't' get done because it wasn't violent conduct. I agree that the push wasn't violent conduct but probably the correct action should of been to book Holgate. I also think in normal circumstances Firmino would also of been booked for his reaction.

What happened in the aftermath probably clouded the Ref's mind. For me he did the right thing in reporting the incident to the 4th official because an accusation of racism is more important than a bit of handbags.
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The post I was replying to was saying Holgate should have got punished retrospectively.
 
Dabluez said:
It may or not be proof of what he said. He could of been charged because they didn't find him to be a credible or reliable witness. The fA will of viewed the footage available and then Rodriguez will of been asked for his account of what happened. If his account didn't tally up with the footage then they would have reason to believe he wasn't credible.
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I had a good old laugh when I read that bit, as the RS as a whole came to mind.

Now where did I put that Suarez t-shirt...............
 

joey_macmo said:
He didn’t get done for the push because it wasn’t violent conduct.

Simple as that.

People cannot be serious when they think that push was worthy of a ban.
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Oh hell no. It most certainly is not worth a ban....my point was that this will all go away though. It seems like its all forgotten, which is odd.
 

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