John Terry? Racist?

[xerxes]

I'd be fucking amazed no matter the outcome if the FA give him any sort of ban.

 

I expect Terry to be found guilty in a Court. The FA will ban him for longer than Suarez (no mitigating factors). Terry's England career will be over, it will cost him millions.

[ngogswilly]

I expect Terry to be found guilty in a Court. The FA will ban him for longer than Suarez (no mitigating factors). Terry's England career will be over, it will cost him millions.

 

I think you're going to be very surprised then.

 

I hope you and a few others will then admit theres a clear fucking problem in the game.

[milky]

Err you mentioned the CPS dropping the charges....i pointed out it was them who told the Rozzers to proceed, so they must have a good case

 

I thought you were talking about the FA, not the CPS, apologies (it wasn't me you were talking to in the first place though mate).

[xerxes]

I think you're going to be very surprised then.

 

I hope you and a few others will then admit theres a clear fucking problem in the game.

 

Do you not expect Terry's ban to be at least as long, if not longer than Luis', if he is found guilty of a criminal charge?

 

What problem are you refering to?

[zigackly]

it's all your fault Zig.

 

Hey, I'd love it if the CPS were to bring a case against Suarez. No chance whatsoever he gets convicted on one man's word in a criminal court.

 

Thing is, they know that, so they won't.

[norwichlfc]

I thought you were talking about the FA, not the CPS, apologies (it wasn't me you were talking to in the first place though mate).

 

 

That is the problem when you cannot quote the full post...so sorry thought i mentioned you in the quote...anyway all sorted now,

[dennis tooth]

Haha he is 'seething'

 

John Terry's image appears as part of anti-smoking campaign in India | Football | guardian.co.uk

[Guest LFD]

So the FA ask Anton Ferdinand to shake Terrys hand when they play.

 

I wonder how Rio and Terry get on after all this?

[goatboy59]

Send out a ringer, Ant lad.

 

 

The FA really are the lowest form of two-faced life.

 

Don't lower the tone now, Anton......

[fowler9]

if Ferdinand does shake his hand the fa will probably use this as evidence Terry isn't racist the fucking twats

[thompsonsnose]

We will never know if Evra would have been encouraged to shake Suarez's hand.

But i think we all know the fucking answer to that!!!!

Putting all the onus on Ferdinand. What a crock of shit.

It all stinks to high heaven.

[Torvald Utne]

So the FA ask Anton Ferdinand to shake Terrys hand when they play.

 

I wonder how Rio and Terry get on after all this?

 

What? This has actually happened?

[stringvest]

I can't believe that. No way.

[Anubis]

BBC are saying it's QPR who are asking Ferdinand to shake hands, not the FA.

 

BBC Sport - Anton Ferdinand-John Terry: QPR ask their defender to shake hands

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

This might now make people understand why a few of us on here said we wont hear about Louis verdict until the FA know if Terry will be taken to court.

 

It was no coincidence Louis verdict was announced a day before the police said they were proceeding with Terrys charge.

 

They wanted to know if he was being charged and if he wasnt Louis wouldnt of either.

 

When they knew Terry was going to be charged then it was clear Louis would be to,and by announcing it a day before the Terry announcement it took alot of the flak Terry would of got.

 

Ex England captain in racist charge the FA wanted to take the attention of that without doubt.

 

So this shaking of hands dosent surprise me one bit and only confirms the all England attitude within the FA.

 

It fucking stinks big time.

[SCOUSE TAPAS]

BBC are saying it's QPR who are asking Ferdinand to shake hands, not the FA.

 

BBC Sport - Anton Ferdinand-John Terry: QPR ask their defender to shake hands

 

Its the FA asking Qpr to ask Ferdinand to shake his hand.

 

Ferdinand to make handshake call QPR will reportedly encourage Anton Ferdinand to shake the hand of John Terry before Saturday's FA Cup clash.

Last Updated: 24/01/12 at 09:33

 

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Terry and Ferdinand will come face to face just days before the Chelsea defender is in court for allegedly racially abusing the QPR man in October's Premier League clash.

The Daily Mail claims 'it is FA Cup protocol for both sets of players to shake hands before matches and Rangers want to do their utmost to defuse a potentially explosive encounter'.

It is assumed that Terry will extend his hand - as he did two years ago when Wayne Bridge opted not to shake it - but it is not yet known whether Ferdinand will reciprocate.

It is understood that the FA will encourage QPR to encourage Ferdinand to shake Terry's hand and allow the courts to deal with the matter.

[Trumo]

Guess who's stuck his oar in again? Where's the self-righteous condemnation this time? He was all for hanging certain other people out to dry a few weeks back - on the most spurious of evidence no less - but now he talks about 'reconciliation'. Funny how some of these people are talking about reconciliation when they were prominent in shit-stirring and fanning the flames of hatred very very recently. Some of these anti-racism campaigners really need to take a long hard look at themselves.

 

Lord Ouseley backing John Terry - Rio Ferdinand handshake - ESPN Soccernet

 

Lord Ouseley backing Terry handshake

 

January 24, 2012

By Harry Harris, Football Correspondent

 

Leading racism campaigner Lord Herman Ouseley has told ESPNsoccernet that he hopes Anton Ferdinand will shake hands with John Terry to defuse the FA Cup tie against Chelsea on Saturday.

 

The FA Cup Fourth Round tie unites the pair for the first time since the alleged incident in QPR's surprise 1-0 victory over Chelsea at Loftus Road on October 23 which led to Terry being charged with a racially aggravated public order offence.

 

Terry, who has protested his innocence, has agreed to shake hands during the pre-game formalities and Ferdinand is being encouraged to reciprocate by Lord Ouseley - an FA councillor as well as a leading light in the Kick It Out campaign - as he believes that such a peace pact would be beneficial for the players as well as for both sets of fans before a potentially explosive encounter.

 

Sepp Blatter was criticised for suggesting that players should shake hands after a game even if there had been racial taunts during a match, but fresh from a meeting with Blatter in Zurich on Monday, Lord Ouseley told ESPNsoccernet: "We all know Blatter was ridiculed for suggesting a handshake after the match with an opponent who taunted a player racially, but this is vastly different.

 

"Here we have the due process taking place, where a player will face the consequences of his actions, but there is every reason for players and indeed fans to show civility and respect toward each other and focus on the football. I have nothing against that.

 

"A handshake now is part of the reconciliation and honesty that needs to take place. There is nothing wrong for someone making a mistake to apologise for it, hold their hands up and then face the consequences and move on.

 

"It is not about retribution and continued hostility, it is about reconciliation, otherwise the next generation will not understand the need for harmony in sport, which mirrors society. It is about how to take the heat out of the situation of the two clubs meeting again, and problems with fans' behaviour as a result of what happened between the players previously.

 

"There has been a lot of nastiness surfacing in the last few months that should have no part in football. The fans have to respect each other, and they won't if the players fail to respect each other. There is passion and emotion in sport, and so it should be, but you also have to respect the individual.

 

"A handshake before the game will not deflect from what went on before and how it will be dealt with."

 

Manchester City defender Wayne Bridge infamously rejected Terry's hand in February 2010 amid the England captain had allegedly had an affair with the left-back's former partner Vanessa Perroncel.

 

As for Lord Ouseley's meeting with Blatter, he told ESPNsoccernet: "The meeting was to explore opportunities for collaboration, to go forward on a positive front.

 

"FIFA needs to build bridges and we can help them do that. FIFA do a lot of positive work that is not highlighted, important work in places such as Africa, and FIFA need to enhance that knowledge of what they do in a more positive way."

[me1]

It's no surprise though is it?

The England Captain is going to court next month to answer a public order charge involving racist language. And this clueless, ignorant prick suggests that Terry and Ferdinand do a Blatter and shake hands.

Proves he just does the FA's bidding.

One rule for Suarez and another for the England Captain.

[Redexile]

Guess who's stuck his oar in again? Where's the self-righteous condemnation this time? He was all for hanging certain other people out to dry a few weeks back - on the most spurious of evidence no less - but now he talks about 'reconciliation'. Funny how some of these people are talking about reconciliation when they were prominent in shit-stirring and fanning the flames of hatred very very recently. Some of these anti-racism campaigners really need to take a long hard look at themselves.

 

Lord Ouseley backing John Terry - Rio Ferdinand handshake - ESPN Soccernet

 

Let's not forget the other twat Piara Power he's been very quiet on the Chelsea Ferdinand chants (two instances). I asked him about it on twitter, needless to say no reply was forthcoming. They won't be jumping off that gravy train.

[Whelan]

Let's not forget the other twat Piara Power he's been very quiet on the Chelsea Ferdinand chants (two instances). I asked him about it on twitter, needless to say no reply was forthcoming. They won't be jumping off that gravy train.

 

That ignorant bigoted little prick has shown himself to be a hypocritcal self serving twat.

 

Absolute disgrace this, he was linking the clubs behaviour with the alleged abuse by one fan (still one too many), yet has said fuck all about this.

[Redexile]

That ignorant bigoted little prick has shown himself to be a hypocritcal self serving twat.

 

Absolute disgrace this, he was linking the clubs behaviour with the alleged abuse by one fan (still one too many), yet has said fuck all about this.

 

Self serving is pretty much an accurate description. Why have no journalists picked up on him and fuckin Ouseley (sp?)?

[fowler9]

because most journos are equally self serving

[Whelan]

because most journos are equally self serving

 

Indeed!

 

New Statesman - Exclusive report: Are the media racist?

 

Exclusive report: Are the media racist?

Posted by Alice Gribbin - 11 January 2012 16:27

 

NS survey shows ethnic minorities are still largely absent from opinion pages, senior roles and staff jobs in UK press.

 

In the wake of the Stephen Lawrence verdict and Diane Abbott's tweet, racism is at the top of the political agenda.

 

To coincide with a special report on race in the British media for this week's New Statesman magazine, we have compiled shocking statistics which show ethnic minorities are still largely absent from opinion pages, senior executive roles and staff jobs in the media.

 

For context: figures published by the Office of National Statistics for 2009 showed the non-white population of England and Wales stood at 16.7 per cent - or one in six people.

 

In numbers: Race in the media

2 of the 99 named witnesses at the Leveson inquiry into the press are from ethnic minorities

1 of the Guardian's 2011 guide to the 100 most important people in the media was not white

0 national newspaper editors are not white

0 national newspaper political editors are not white

In numbers: The commentariat

We surveyed the main comment pages of selected newspapers in the week between Monday 5 December and Sunday 11 December to count the number of non-white writers who appeared.

 

3 newspapers did not have a single non-white writer on the comment pages

5 non-white writers have a regular weekly fixed column in the British broadsheet press

 

 

*Numbers include Sunday sister publications

 

[An important point on methodology: the numbers above refer to those columnists who occupy, specifically, the prime real estate that is a newspaper's "comment and opinion" pages. They do not count the non-white writers who write columns in other sections of a newspaper. For example, Baz Bamigboye, the Daily Mail's black showbiz columnist, is not included in the statistics. Nor is the Guardian G2's Aditya Chakrabortty, who writes on ideas and economics.]

 

As Mehdi Hasan writes in an essay for the special report:

 

What have the following five individuals got in common: Gary Younge, Hugh Muir, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Amol Rajan and India Knight? They are part of a small group of non-white newspaper columnists who appear regularly on the comment pages of our national newspapers. Well, OK, not quite. They are the small group of non-white newspaper columnists who appear on those comment pages. That's it. There's just five of them - the Guardian's Younge and Muir (both black), the Independent/i's Alibhai-Brown and Rajan (both Asian) and the Sunday Times's Knight (mixed race).

 

It is a deeply depressing state of affairs.

 

 

Elsewhere in this special report -- in the new NS issue, out tomorrow -- Rafael Behr writes about the "monochrome majority" in the lobby and leading editors and journalists speak out the lack of diversity in the UK press.

[VladimirIlyich]

Of course he isnt a racist because when you call somebody a 'black cunt' the cunt parts cancels out the black part!

[Iceman]

Guess who's stuck his oar in again? Where's the self-righteous condemnation this time? He was all for hanging certain other people out to dry a few weeks back - on the most spurious of evidence no less - but now he talks about 'reconciliation'. Funny how some of these people are talking about reconciliation when they were prominent in shit-stirring and fanning the flames of hatred very very recently. Some of these anti-racism campaigners really need to take a long hard look at themselves.

 

Lord Ouseley backing John Terry - Rio Ferdinand handshake - ESPN Soccernet

 

That fucker Ouseley is a card isn't he? You can see how he got his "lordship". A barrel load of arse licking and yessing, no doubt. Not to forget the 2 coats he wears at all times. Duplicitous wanker.