Hopefully (but certainly not at all) putting an end to every single forum/YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/bathroom graffiti comment which claimed the FA hates Liverpool and Luis Suarez because it charged him with racial abuse and not John Terry, despite every single news article reminding dull-witted readers that Terry would likely be charged once his criminal trial had finished, the FA charged John Terry today.
JUST LIKE IT SAID IT MIGHT.
Terry denies the charges outright, and wants a private meeting, to talk things through mano a suited mano.
Still, because it’s the FA, and because reading fine-print or accepting these are difficult, nuanced cases that require care and careful consideration reflecting the seriousness of the charges, pundits will tell you today that the FA are cowards, have bungled this whole thing somehow, have dug their own graves, etc., it’s all their fault, they hate my club. Much of this because Terry will still be able to play for England while the investigation takes place, or something else they haven’t spotted yet.
Some will also attempt to make the erroneous comparison between state justice and a Soccer Association (that’s right—soccer), meaning that if the latter does not follow the guidelines of the former, then there is no justice in our time.
Some will simply write an obligatory reaction piece because, well, it’s part of their job on a lovely Friday afternoon, and remind you that had the state not intervened in a matter involving the careless abuse of the democratic privilege of free speech (even if that speech is yelly and racist), the FA could have dealt with this much more quickly in a manner better geared to effective punitive action where it counts (the football pitch), without being second guessed by a nation confused as to how the FA can charge someone when the state has left them off (hint: one is a court of justice, the other runs the game of kick ball).
Ok I get the FA has the right to come at this under its own rules, however given other party clearly admitted to using abusive language to Terry shopuldnt he also face an FA charge ?
No that wouldnt be politically correct would it ….FA as always prove they are a bunch of muppets
The FA is having a go at him because of racially abusive language. The FA has a “Kick Racism Out of Football” campaign, not a “Kick Mean Words out of Football” campaign.
I’m always flabbergasted how John Terry always looks so dapper in a suit for such a racist person. All of these court appearances are confusing me.
What gotta be a scrub to be racist? Don’t get it twisted even the best of people say some fucked up shit now and again. They just don’t get caught and put on blast like he did.
I’m not condoning what he did/said or whatever, but I am sick and tired of people trying to de humanize the man and point figures acting like they’ve never made a disparaging comment to someone before.
The face that the FA announced this on the Friday afternoon of the Olympic Opening Ceremony tells you how much they want nothing to do with this case or the publicity that would otherwise surround it on any other day…chickens
Sorry “fact” not “face”
I love how the FA made the dissuasion just before the opening saramnies nice try FA nice try