Another gaff from the man who heads up world football. Seemingly untouchable FIFA President Sepp Blatter has decreed that a handshake following racial abuse should be enough to make everything right again. The man is a joke - a bad one.
He then decides that everyone misunderstood him. No Sepp, we understand just fine. You are a dinosaur from another generation at best or a latent racist at worst. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and presume it's the former. Either way, he's not fit to head up the world's greatest game, played by people in every nation, of every religion and all shades of skin tone.
I'm a fortunate middle-England, white guy and have never suffered the racist abuse or attacks that some of my friends have endured, but bigotry in any form needs fighting and not brushing off with a shake of the hand. And it needs fighting by all of us.
We've all played football at different levels and many of us might have lost our rags during a game and lashed out, but giving someone a whack in retaliation is an instinctive thing. Hurling racial abuse takes a little more mental effort (ironic given the low IQ of the average racist) and - in my humble view - belies a person's true feelings.
Most people who are as crass as Blatter is (let's not forget his comments about women's football and what they should, or rather shouldn't be wearing) would have been out on their ears by now, but this man doesn't answer to anyone having surrounded himself with 'yes' men who appear to be in his debt for whatever reason.
I wonder what some of them think about Blatter this evening. Then again, maybe their bulging bank accounts somehow prevent them from worrying too much about morality.
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For once I agree with Sepp!! Everyone nowadays has to consider other peoples feelings Its so pathetic a fully grown man crys about a little name here and there.
ReplyDeleteGrow up. Everything these days is so PC. No real people left just the products of governments reducing our free speech to that of our fellow mammals.
With free speech comes responsibility and what's wrong with considering other people's feelings? If you are saying something that it considered offensive by the vast majority of people, surely you have to ask yourself the question, "am I in the wrong?" otherwise your behaviour is worse than mammals you mention who don't know any better.
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