Tom Adeyemi

[George Costanza]

I'm sure that little stat will soon morph in to us 'turning a blind eye'

 

probably although year before we made some arrests including banning 2 fans for behaviour on away games for behaviour outside the ground.

[stringvest]

Can someone confirm where exactly this was allegedly shouted from. Was it the Lower cent corner of the Kop or the main stand/paddock corner of the Kop ?

 

just been on ITV. It was the lower cent side of the Kop. Not right in the corner either. And that cunt Matt Smith (I think that's his name) was trying to tie this to the Suarez case by saying plenty of fans take the lead of the players where their behaviour is concerned. Fortunately neither Ince or Strachan would bite.

[Yozzer]

on average in the Premier League there are 3 arrests per club of racially aggravated offences.

 

The witch hunt is a joke.

 

Just out of interest, where abouts did you get this from? I'm tired of our club being branded as all sorts so this is some useful info.

[melons]

Just out of ibterest, where abouts did you get this from? I'm tired of our club being branded as all sorts so this is some useful info.

 

Oi, i know (hope) my previous post isn't invisible, Dave? Dave??

 

 

 

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/crime/football-arrests-banning-orders/fbo-2010-11?view=Binary

[Yozzer]

Thanks Melons!

[Torvald Utne]

[JesseRawlins]

The moment the ugliness of racism returned to Anfield

 

 

By Patrick Collins

 

Last updated at 10:30 PM on 7th January 2012

 

The insult seemed to strike Tom Adeyemi with the force of a sniper's bullet. He froze, then strode back to the byline from where the jibe had come; an isolated figure staring into a sea of hostile faces. He made a brief, helpless gesture, then he turned away again, the tears spilling down his face.

 

And in those deeply disturbing moments, the ugliness

 

For this incident in the 80th minute of the Liverpool-Oldham FA Cup tie was not something which could be brushed aside as a trivial misunderstanding. This was a bright, intelligent and plainly sensitive 20-year-old being called, according to witnesses, a ‘******g black b******’.

 

Both sets of players, including the Liverpool captain, Steven Gerrard, helped to control and console him, but humiliation had been inflicted upon a distraught young man.

 

Those of us who covered football across the country some 30 years ago will recall with revulsion that this kind of outrage was encountered on a weekly basis.

 

Football grounds were frequently squalid, unpleasant places in which racist abuse was routinely bellowed. But the world has moved on, standards have changed, and conduct which was merely despicable in past decades is now practically unthinkable.

 

Which explains why that vile eruption at Anfield on Friday evening is a cause for real concern.

 

Now, it goes almost without saying that the overwhelming majority of people who watch Liverpool genuinely abhor racism. The same applies to those who make the decisions at the football club.

 

But, after events of the past few weeks, those decision makers — and most obviously the manager, Kenny Dalglish — must surely be asking themselves some pointed questions.

 

The details are well-known. The accusation that Liverpool’s Luis Suarez racially abused Patrice Evra, of Manchester United, during a 1-1 draw at Anfield in October was publicly prejudged by Dalglish. Evra’s credibility was clumsily traduced, while Suarez was portrayed as a paragon.

 

In a woefully crass gesture, Dalglish and his players paraded in supportive T-shirts. A siege mentality was cynically created, persuading a number of supporters to believe that the world was persecuting their club.

 

Then, after a long and remarkably exhaustive inquiry led by a QC, an FA commission concluded that the accusation was indeed well-founded, and Suarez was fined and suspended for eight matches.

 

It was at this stage that Dalglish and his superiors could have defused the tension with civilised contrition. Instead, and in the face of all the facts, they opted for dim truculence.

 

There were murmurings of prejudice, questioning of the FA’s credibility. When Suarez released a particularly evasive statement, Dalglish described it as ‘brilliant’.

 

At every stage, the manager played to the public gallery, piling on the sense of paranoia. He plumbed the depths on Wednesday evening, when he told a Press conference: ‘There’s a lot of things we’d like to say and a lot of things we could say, but we’d only get ourselves into trouble. But we know what has gone on.’

 

It was the nudge-nudge, nose-tapping reaction of a man who is not remotely as clever as he imagines.

What did they want to say? Who was stopping them from saying it? What trouble could they possibly invite? And why did they not say it to the inquiry?

 

By propagating such nonsense, a fine club was demeaned and a notable manager sadly diminished.

 

Yet again there were indications that many Liverpool supporters were swallowing the Dalglish line. There was an unhealthy sense that a terrible injustice had been done. After all, their Kenny had as good as said so.

 

Which brings us back to the events of Friday evening. In his moments of retrospection, does Dalglish ever wonder if his own posturing might have helped create a climate in which intolerance could thrive? Has he considered offering an apology on behalf of all the people he represents? And will he ask his decent supporters to turn in the racist?His answers would be interesting. Who knows, they might even spare another young man the suffering of Tom Adeyemi.

 

 

Read more: Liverpool race row, Tom Adeyemi: Patrick Collins has his say | Mail Online

 

 

Incredible.......

[Pidge]

and that's from the paper Kenny has the closest ties with.

 

If anyone on here ever buys a paper again, you have let yourselves down. Fuck them all, anachronistic medium of shite.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

Im so absolutely livid. How can this be happening? How can there be so many blind cunts in this world?

[Red Banjo]

So while we were only 1 of 6 clubs who last season didn't have any arrests because of racist chanting or abusive language - yet we are solely responsible for English football returning to the dark ages of the 80's, and its basically Kenny's fault.

 

These fucking cunts in the media, bad shithouse dog aids is too good for them.

[torahboy]

Collins is a man with no depth of knowledge about football in general, Liverpool in particular. The above are the ramblings of a man who pronounces on issues from his office in the capital, never venturing any further north than Wembley. So anything he writes about our club comes from a point of total ignorance.

 

Perhaps he might venture up here for Dalglish's next press conference and back up his claim that Kenny "isn't as clever as he thinks he is" by exposing our manager as the dunce he imagines him to be. Now that would be worth watching.

 

Any man who thinks the FA's inquiry into the Evra case was "remarkably exhaustive" is a man who is ignorant of all the facts. But, as I stated, Collins is a pig ignorant on most football matters, and this pile of shite proves as much.

[goatboy59]

On page 20; Peter Hitchens......

[ngogswilly]

Aye its Kenny fault surely yeah its all on him.

 

I'm sick of this shit now.

 

I wish someone would come out and back Kenny up but no one will. Sick of it all.

[BCM]

Aye its Kenny fault surely yeah its all on him.

 

I'm sick of this shit now.

 

I wish someone would come out and back Kenny up but no one will. Sick of it all.

 

 

john barnes could quite easily.

[Guest San Don]

and that's from the paper Kenny has the closest ties with.

 

If anyone on here ever buys a paper again, you have let yourselves down. Fuck them all, anachronistic medium of shite.

 

Agree. Hopefully the King will cut his ties with these shower of bastards.

[dennis tooth]

Collins oh the irony, lets swap racism for bad journalism, kenny for your editor, me reading that article for tom/evra and you for the racialist fan/suarez. Now I hope you editor is able to spare a thought for me.

 

Comical effort. The day bad journalism returned to the mirror would be a tad optomistic of your history sadly.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I few caveats before I say what i want here.....

 

1-I wasn't there, I'm only taking what I know from this thread.

 

2- I don't condone racist chants/abuse aimed at players

 

But........

 

Do the FA not always punish retaliatory action by players to crowd abuse. Cantona (extreme example I know), Carraghers coin toss, Luis' finger salute at Fulham?

 

I know it's not right for members of the crowd to hurl "any" foul abuse at players and that should be a police matter. If a player "reacts" then thats a football matter.

 

What I'm trying to say is, no matter what Adeyemi "thought" he heard, his reaction was OTT.

If this is the way things are going to go, especially at Liverpool games where its open season, then the FA need to nip this in the bud quickly and show a bit of leadership or whatever and reinforce exactly what the procedure should be. Should that be go to the ref immediately, who will then take the matter to the touchline or report it after the game.

 

I'm not saying what happened last night was right, but we don't really know exactly what happened do we?

 

Balls.

 

Why the inverted commas around "thought"?

 

Rightly or wrongly, he believes he was racially abused. He's absolutely right to report it to the referee. Who the fuck has the right to tell anyone how upset they are allowed to get when they're insulted?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

just been on ITV. It was the lower cent side of the Kop. Not right in the corner either. And that cunt Matt Smith (I think that's his name) was trying to tie this to the Suarez case by saying plenty of fans take the lead of the players where their behaviour is concerned. Fortunately neither Ince or Strachan would bite.

 

Yeah.

 

If my brother was a Manc I'd be keeping an eye on him and my wife.

[Juan Galonso]

Send him to The Chair.

 

They'll be renaming the race the Grand National Front as this rate.

[Iceman]

Funny how none of the ambulance chasers or paragons of racial virtue had anything to say about any of the 23 racial incidents from the 2010-11 season. Almost as if they weren't that interested.

[dennis tooth]

Funny how none of the ambulance chasers or paragons of racial virtue had anything to say about any of the 23 racial incidents from the 2010-11 season. Almost as if they weren't that interested.

 

 

John Terry parks in disabled spaces, he will be responsible for those.

[dennis tooth]

Oh and some, anyone out there if you could just post a picture of joe pesci on this page of the thread please.

God, always fluffin the forum pillows and not even a seater home in return.

[razor]

That Mail article made me laugh out loud. I know maybe I shouldn't have, but I just couldn't help it.

 

He paints this football player as a small child innocent to the ways of the world; beautiful, immaculate ....

 

AND THEN ALONG COMES THE FILTHY SCUM FOOTBALL SUPPORTER WHO CALLS HIM A NAME! A NAME I TELL YOU! A NAME AT A FOOTBALL MATCH! HE ACTUALLY SHOUTED OUT LOUD AND CALLED HIM A NAME!

 

I'm surprised little Tommy didn't have to look it up in a dictionary.

 

He probably didn't though because he's clever. He's got A Levels. He's not like them other blacks.

 

I wonder how many qualifications the scum supporter had? Probably not as many.

 

I'm looking forward to the Disney film version. With soundtrack by Bruno Mars.

 

The journalist says he has been going to football matches for 30 years. So have I. And I have never heard ANYBODY shout insults at footballers EVER for the last 20 of them years. It just never happens. Blokes don't shout abuse at football matches. EVER. He's RIGHT to be so outraged and turn in 400 words on the issue.

 

It might just knock a story about gypos off page 5, though, but we can't have it all.

 

I hope they help Tom off the coach, and wheel him into the press conference wearing dark glasses, a blanket clutched around his shoulders. He'll speak in hushed tones into the microphone, frail, vulnerable...

 

And then I want to see the CULPRIT dragged kicking and screaming like James Cagney at the end of Angels With Dirty Faces. AND I WANT TO SEE HIM FRY!

 

Die you abusive scum of the Earth! DIE!!

 

 

PS That lad who shouted the racist comment should be banned from Anfield. Like the other fans who have done it at other clubs have been. By the by, on with the drama!

[billypilgrimnz]

Miserable press reaction. Mindless media pile-on that refuses to contextualize any issue whatsoever. Absolute idiots.

[satmann]

Is This is guy educated or what ....

 

The head of European football's anti-racism group, Piara Powar, believes Liverpool should have been more proactive over the latest issue to affect the club.

 

The club and Merseyside Police have launched investigations after Oldham's 20-year-old defender Tom Adeyemi was allegedly abused by someone in the Kop during the FA Cup third-round tie on Friday.

 

The suggestion is the comments were of a racial nature. It comes as Liverpool deal with the fall-out from Luis Suarez's eight-match ban for racial abuse of Manchester United's Patrice Evra. Powar, the executive director of European football's anti-discrimination body FARE, said: "The obvious thing for LFC must be to come out as a club – owner, manager, captain – and start to undo some of the damage, including addressing their fans.

 

"Go on to the LFC website and there is not a single expression of regret about what happened," he added. "Are LFC fans going to do this at every game, support the mistakes made by their own man by abusing others? Top clubs have unprecedented influence and power over millions of people. They should exercise that power responsibly. If they don't, it's time for the authorities to step in."

 

A 20-year-old man from Aintree in Merseyside was arrested last night on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence in connection with the Cup tie. Liverpool issued a statement saying they "continue to work closely with Merseyside Police to establish all the facts surrounding the incident".