The latest installment involves Luis Suarez and Patrice Evra. Evra has made the allegation that Suarez has vilified him on the field throughout the Liverpool vs Manchester United match. Evra is claiming that at least ten times throughout the match Suarez was taunting him with the term "nigger". If true then then there is no excuse for this on any sporting field and Suarez will need to accept his punishment. If it is baseless then Evra, as LFC have stated, should be banned for this charade. If it affected him so much why did he not bring it to the attention of the officials during the game. The referee has already stated in his match report that the first he knew of it was after the match. This is not the first time that Evra has been part of such allegations and on the last occasion he was suspended and fined as the allegations were not proved. He could be looking at another stint on the sidelines.
I have no time for racism but I also have no time for players who throw baseless allegations around. If it was so bad why wait until after a game where it supposedly happened at least ten times. Did it take the tenth time for him to understand the word? Did he mishear the word, perhaps Suarez was saying niggler ie: Stop niggling me, you are a niggler. This could be a stretch but it will come down to word against word. I will also take it a step further, this may offend some out there but it is how I feel. If the word in question is so offensive why does it get used so often in film and music without any objection. If it is not good for one colour to say it then it is not good for the other colour either. The only way to stamp out racism is to have a united front, not one rule for one and another rule for the other.
UPDATE:
Kenny Dalglish has today announced Luis Suarez has the full support of the club. See the details here.
For me it is taking too long for the EPL to sort out this issue. A professional sport of this magnitude should have sorted this out by now.
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