Originally Posted by
pomeroy
You may remember in 2016 Joe Marler was cited by the WRU for verbal abuse of Samson Lee by calling him “ gipsy boy”.
The rules state that anyone verbally abused regarding race, colour, religion. creed ethnic or National origin or sexual orientation will be subject to a minimum 4 week ban. Marler had to issue a grovelling apology and was banned for 4 weeks.
IMO the abuse suffered by Price was far worse and was compounded by the fact that Sky nor its commentators did nothing about it. Whether Price in his over exuberant celebrations is partly responsible is irrelevant and to infer that Price didn’t give a toss was not borne out in his post match comments. His opponent Kim Huytrechts has also said the the abuse of Price was unacceptable.
You may be interested that countless complaints to Offcom about this incident have been made.