Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I think Mahlon Romeo’s case is interesting as, to me at least, it highlights the double standards that exist within professional football.

I’ll ask a question I touched on earlier in the thread: if a player had been found guilty in a court of law of drink-driving and aiming a tirade of racist abuse at a police officer, do you think a statement of apology would have been deemed sufficient by his club and its supporters? Or do you think he would have been sacked?

My firm belief is that an incident of this nature would have been treated as being far more significant if the discriminatory language the player had used had been racist as opposed to homophobic.

Before anyone asks, I’m not comparing the Romeo situation to the one involving Jack Simpson as the circumstances were clearly different. I’m just interested to hear how people think the Romeo case would have played out had it involved racism instead of homophobia.
Although I agree with what you've said generally - there are many examples of double standards unfortunately - I think one difference here may be that the police officer on the receiving end may not actually be gay? Obviously he may well be, and then. I would agree entirely, bur people call straight people 'homophobic' slurs quite often so that could be what's happened here?