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anyone know who it is?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19938884

Given that the newspapers have villified everyone else that has been accused of an alleged racial incident before it's been looked into by the police/fa, you'd have thought there would've been equal coverage in the media on this story.

posted on 14/10/12

lee croft...article further down....

posted on 14/10/12

My guess that the player (a) high profile, or more importantly (b) foreign.

posted on 14/10/12

It was Lee Croft against one of the ball boys.

posted on 14/10/12

Yeah. A nobody from a league one team should receive the same attention as 2 famous international players, one being the England captain and from two of the biggest clubs in the world

Paisleys.

John Terry's case received just as much attention as Suarez's case. Nothing to do with being foreign

posted on 14/10/12


"John Terry's case received just as much attention as Suarez's case."


Absolute nonsense.

posted on 14/10/12

Of course it did. Look at the stripping of the England captaincy for starters.

The fact he got a lesser ban, which is utterly ridiculous by the way, made even more headlines

posted on 14/10/12

I would expect stories from the lower divisions to get less attention, to be fair.

The FA's "campaign" is a vanity-project anyway, to demonstrate that they're the world's top anti-racists.
In the past year, they've done four people under Regulation E3(2)......Suarez (Liverpool), Frimpong (Arsenal) Ferdinand (United), Terry (Chelsea),

All high-profile clubs. If the context of the allegation is on the pitch,.....more publicity (in the Suarez case, something close to hysteria). If it's done on Twitter...much more low-profile, for reasons which don't make any rational sense to me, because it's the same offence. (You could argue that it's worse).

But nothing about Bernstein's campaign has ever been rational, and I think it's done more harm than good.

It's generated huge clouds of hot air and negative publicity, for an issue that David James says he barely ever witnessed in his entire career in the game, and thinks is agenda-driven by people who are paid to whip up a storm to demonstarte the necessity of their jobs.

posted on 14/10/12

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