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I’m not advocating violence.
I’m saying that, imho, such tackles are not uncommon in football and, again imho, do not constitute assault (or battery).
The ref saw the incidents and felt that, imho the worst one, was only a yellow.
I also don’t think you can pass off racist abuse as “name calling” but clearly we’re not going to agree and I’ve got work to do.
So I’ll leave it there.
See calling it name calling is where the disconnect is, it's not the equivalent of calling someone fat or stupid.
It wasn't years ago that slavery stopped, only 30 years since bananas were thrown at black players, pubs in the 70s had the no blacks and no Irish signs still up. It's more than name calling it's 100s of years of pure hatred being brought up and reinforcing that view.
Tbf it was a shove and a couple of little kicks, the kick in the bollocks was maybe too far but I imagine having to have someone racially abuse you and then see them get a leaner punishment and have that building up for months would get to you. Especially when he has history of it.
I slept with someone's girlfriend once without knowing she had a boyfriend then played a match against him and he kept giving me little kicks, I definitely deserved it. But then I was walking home one night and he hit me in the back of the head with a brick I thought that was too far im of the same opinion of this.
Another person who is amazed to discover people with different opinions to himself.
It's a good job calling someone a "f***ing idiot" isn't considered to be as bad as racist abuse or by your own standards I'd be well within my rights to come to your house and kick you in the bollocks.
No they don't hence the bookings and why you'd be arrested for hitting someone in the street. But I imagine the punishment would be less than if you'd done it for something else because there is an element of "they had it coming" after saying something like that.
*This was a reply to the post 3 posts ago, there were some rapid responses in between
What a ****ing idiot.
Oh do piss off. You're not the first person in this thread to see a different opinion to yours and decide it's just "a wind up merchant".
It bothers me that there are so many people who think that "just a kick in the bollocks" is in ANY WAY an appropriate response to name calling. Thank Christ the law agrees with me on this rather than you lot.
Call me ginger nuts (I'm not ginger but it's the first insult that popped into my head) and I'd laugh it off. You are a wind up. A huge ****ing clown if I'm honest.
I don't condone kicking anyone..but measuring the 2 I'd give the racism the worst of it in this instance.
Calling racism name calling is ****ing ignorant too.
Not on a windup, clown is debatable, you don't condone kicking anyone but then you do.
Calling someone racist names is worse than just normal name calling and I wouldn't do it myself because I'm not a racist but that's what it is, name calling - fact.
Thanks again for the abuse for having a different opinion from you though. Good job.