- Aug 13, 2005
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Yeah cant be the entire stadium shouting and singing racist stuff about Evra that is getting people like him banned. Nope. It was definitely calling someone a ****
I don't want to get into it too much as I'm sure it's been discussed 1000 times already back when it happened, but just have to correct you he wasn't saying "Negro" he was calling Evra "Negrito", which in South America is, generally speaking, a friendly term/nickname.
Now given that he had at the time lived in England/Europe for many years, he should've known better how that sort of thing would come across, and in fact probably did know and was intentionally using it to wind Evra up. Who knows.
But the word itself does not translate to the "N-Word" like most people make out. There isn't really an equivalent in English because ANY reference to a person's race is considered racist so there isn't any way to translate it properly really.
I heard it and it sounded as loud as the Louis Suarez chants to me, almost the whole ground singing it.
I agree it should be looked at, but was barely even picked up by the media.I was being conservative
As said, the ludicrous thing is, Suarez defence wasn't even that he hadn't said it, but that it was meant in a familiar, playful way by a childlike naive waif who understood not the attachment more cunning, malignant figures would put on his innocent adolescent diminutive. So just what is it they think [sic.] Evra lied about?
Not untypically, Victim FC are so totally wrapped up in the notion that neither LFC nor anyone even remotely connected with them can ever do anything even remotely wrong that they spectacularly miss the point. Evra wasn't lying, Suarez admitted to saying what Evra claimed he said.
Afaiac, the FA should look into it.
Now Liverpool need to win trophies. Hopefully everyone jumps on that bandwagon now Benitez has said this. Doubt the media will though!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-trophies-remembered-warns-Rafa-Benitez.html
Liverpool are great to watch but they MUST win trophies to be remembered, warns former boss Rafa Benitez
They’ll probably be ringing Talksport all week trying to get it outlawed.Text from my Liverpool supporting Salah buddy.
This is not a joke even though it might look like one.
United man marking Salah. It's totally unfair. 2-0 down cos they're playing like that
I guess Now we can see why their fans have the lowest iq!Text from my Liverpool supporting Salah buddy.
This is not a joke even though it might look like one.
United man marking Salah. It's totally unfair. 2-0 down cos they're playing like that
This is why RAWK meltdown was invented.Text from my Liverpool supporting Salah buddy.
This is not a joke even though it might look like one.
United man marking Salah. It's totally unfair. 2-0 down cos they're playing like that