Member's Login
Not yet a member? Register now
20th January 2012, 11:20
|
#7202 (permalink) |
|
Shart stop
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Colombo. Sri-Lanka
Posts: 4,150
|
"Liverpool are currently embroiled in a race row after their star striker Luis Suarez was found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.
Taking this into consideration, it may not have been such a good idea for the former Kop star to dress up as Motown legend Lionel Richie, complete with black face. The 36-year-old posted the picture on his Twitter account but later took it down after users began to complain about his choice of fancy dress. Araapatlio wrote: 'Suarez thing going on & Robbie Fowler thinks it is a good idea to post a pic of himself ‘blacked up’ as Lionel Ritchie? Doh.' Tweeter Louise Brown added: 'I think Robbie Fowler posting a photo of himself blacked up really isn't doing #LFC any favours right now.' Robbie Fowler, black face. Robbie Fowler deleted the post after a series of negative tweets from other users (Picture: REXMAILPIX) On the other hand not everyone thought it was a big deal. @GazJonessss said: '@Robbie9Fowler Anyone who took offence, they're quite simply stupid. Political correctness gone mad.' Razorsharpe09 also thought that the incident had been blown out of proportion. 'So I take it dressin up as a black person will be banned soon after the stick @Robbie9Fowler had to take for daring to go as Lionel Richie,' he tweeted. A friend of Fowler, who is player-manager of Thai Premier League club Muangthong United, tried to defend him. He told the Daily Star: 'Robbie wouldn’t have meant any harm. He was taking the mickey out of himself. 'But he decided to delete it after the PC brigade got on to him and some people were guessing it was Evra.' Suarez was given an eight-match ban after he was found guilty by an independent panel. Read more: Robbie Fowler criticised over 'blacked up' Lionel Richie Twitter photo | Metro.co.uk" ----------------------------------------------------------- So making your face black means 'taking the mickey of oneself'. Whats so funny about having a black face? |
|
|
|
20th January 2012, 11:32
|
#7205 (permalink) |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: (noun)
Posts: 5,205
|
Maybe he saw Ivor Ballokov's Trading Places movie poster from the thread in the generals and thought it would be a good idea...
Footballers at the Movies (A Photoshop Thread) |
|
|
|
|
20th January 2012, 12:24
|
#7206 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Regular
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Where the goals come from.
Posts: 19,668
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
20th January 2012, 12:31
|
#7208 (permalink) | |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Manchester
Posts: 2,355
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
21st January 2012, 18:17
|
#7210 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Nani Are you ok? Are you ok? Are you ok Nani?
Posts: 5,050
 |
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
21st January 2012, 18:19
|
#7211 (permalink) | |
|
Rød grød med fløde
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Denmark
Posts: 2,539
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
21st January 2012, 18:20
|
#7212 (permalink) | |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 4,656
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 16:18
|
#7218 (permalink) |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Posts: 3,201
|
Good article about Evra's past in today's grauniad:
Patrice Evra has come a long way from Marsala to Manchester via Monaco | Louise Taylor | Football | The Guardian Patrice Evra has come a long way from Marsala to Manchester via Monaco The man who finds himself at the heart of the controversy with Luis Suárez has dealt with a great deal more than he will face in Manchester United's FA Cup tie at Liverpool  Manchester United's Patrice Evra at the announcement that Nicolas Anelka was being thrown out of France's 2010 World Cup squad. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP Patrice Evra retains vivid memories of his first day as a professional footballer. He had just joined Marsala, a Sicilian club in Italy's third division, and was thrilled beyond all measure to dress in a brand new tracksuit and flip-flops before leaving the hotel for training. Manchester United's left-back recalls his 17-year-old self gazing at the reflection in the bedroom mirror with a sense of unprecedented pride and unconfined joy. "It was like paradise," he has said. "To this day, it is the best feeling I've had in football." At the time, Evra was the only black man at a club situated in a very white city on Sicily's west coast but he came to rather relish his novelty value. The then striker or left-winger happily remembers being regularly stopped on the street so people who "had never seen a black guy" could pose for pictures with him. On other occasions, complete strangers invited the teenager into their homes for meals. Finding himself as the centre of overwhelmingly friendly attention at what he fondly regards as "an amazing, family club" proved a most welcome interlude for a young footballer who fantasised about becoming the new Romário but had previously seemed in danger of becoming lost in the crowd. The son of a Senegalese diplomat and a Cape Verdean mother, Evra was born in Dakar but moved to Brussels at the age of one when his father was posted to Belgium. Two years later the rapidly expanding family – Evra was one of 25 children – moved to Paris where he would grow up. It should have been a privileged upbringing but two divorces, three marriages and the arrival of a new baby virtually every year ensured Evra Sr struggled to provide for his offspring. Despite this chaotically cash-strapped childhood in increasingly forbidding neighbourhoods, the young Patrice secured impressive grades at school, demonstrating a linguistic gift that has left him fluent in five languages and in the process of being taught Korean by his good friend and United team-mate Park Ji-sung. One of Evra's principal quintet of languages, Wolof, is widely spoken in Senegal but, despite his parents' initial determination to bring the family up in a traditional west African manner, he increasingly regarded himself as French. A watershed occurred when, aged 10, he travelled to Dakar to be circumcised amid what seemed alien celebrations. "It wasn't a happy experience, I was too westernised," he recalled. "I haven't been back to Senegal since. I'd need a real incentive to return." Further alienation from his roots took place when Evra opted to represent France rather than Senegal and faced an angry backlash. "I was called a monkey who grovels for the white man and labelled a money-obsessed traitor to the nation," he has said, left dismayed by what he regards as a form of inverted racism. It is hard to imagine that the expected vitriol raining down on the 30-year-old from the stands at Anfield on Saturday will prove remotely as painful. Indeed, those Liverpool fans who cannot forgive the defender for accusing Luis Suárez of racial abuse and maintain, disingenuously, that the case represents a cynical playing of "the race card" are possibly also unaware that, on two previous occasions, Evra declined to support allegations he had been racially abused. During another game against Liverpool, in 2006, two deaf fans, both lip-readers, complained to the police that Evra had been racially insulted by Steve Finnan, Liverpool's right-back. With Evra declining to become involved in the matter and Finnan vehemently denying such suggestions, video evidence eventually cleared the Republic of Ireland international. Then, in April 2008, the so-called Battle of the Bridge erupted. This time Evra came to blows with Sam Bethell, Chelsea's head groundsman, as he warmed down after a match at Stamford Bridge. Two members of United's coaching staff, Mike Phelan and Richard Hartis, alleged that the player had been racially abused, but Bethell successfully rebutted their claims. Once again distancing himself from the furore, Evra declined to cite racist provocation as his defence and ended up being banned for four games and fined £15,000. A little over two years later it was his mouth rather than his fists that set Evra on a collision course with many in France when he captained Les Bleus during a disastrous, controversy-suffused, World Cup campaign in South Africa. When Nicolas Anelka was expelled from the squad for subjecting France's coach, Raymond Domenech, to a string of obscenities at half-time during a defeat against Mexico in Polokwane, Evra responded to what he calls "the fire inside me" and led a dressing room mutiny, in which Domenech's players refused to train before losing their final group game against the host nation in disappointing fashion. With certain senior French politicians claiming that such a barrack-room lawyer should never represent the country again, Evra had succeeded in dividing a nation but, ultimately, such militancy merely resulted in a five-match international ban followed by his quiet restoration to a team now under Laurent Blanc's control. One of Blanc's former France team-mates, Didier Deschamps, is the manager Evra credits with transforming him into a leading defender. The pair came together at Monaco, where Deschamps finally convinced Evra that while he might have enjoyed himself on the left wing at Marsala, Monza and Nice, he would never cut it as a high-calibre creator. An initially reluctant left-back soon attracted a £5.5m bid from Sir Alex Ferguson and he has rarely looked back. The Parisian schoolboy who learnt "to fight for everything" and still remembers being the subject of mocking laughter from classmates when a school teacher revealed Evra's ambition to become a professional footballer had transcended all expectations. Not that his transition to Premier League life was entirely seamless. At first Evra, his wife, Sandra, who is white, and their son, Lenny, now six, struggled to adapt. The food seemed like rubbish, the weather "a slap in the face" and it took a little time to establish himself in the first team. The sunny, stress-free days back in Monaco when he had startled team-mates by becoming part of Prince Albert's social circle must have appeared a distant mirage. Rather than whinge, Evra endeavoured to immerse himself in United's culture, spending his evenings reading books and watching DVDs detailing the club's history and personalties. Once fully acquainted with the Munich disaster, the Busby Bates, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Eric Cantona, he began to feel the sort of extraordinary pride and belonging that he suspected had been long since left behind at Marsala. "I realised what a privilege it is to play for Manchester United," he said. "I learnt to respect the shirt, to respect the legend." Certain Liverpool fans may demur but when Evra walks out at Anfield on Saturday he will command the wholesale respect of those who believe that his stance against Suárez – at times personally costly – will do more than a thousand well-meant campaigns to help eradicate casual, unthinking racism in English football. © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. |
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 16:26
|
#7219 (permalink) |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 3,181
|
Rather than whinge, Evra endeavoured to immerse himself in United's culture, spending his evenings reading books and watching DVDs detailing the club's history and personalties. Once fully acquainted with the Munich disaster, the Busby Bates, Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Eric Cantona, he began to feel the sort of extraordinary pride and belonging that he suspected had been long since left behind at Marsala. "I realised what a privilege it is to play for Manchester United," he said. "I learnt to respect the shirt, to respect the legend."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Busby Bates? |
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 16:36
|
#7220 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Regular
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Getting Distracted by Emma Stone.
Posts: 19,086
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 18:11
|
#7223 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 6,737
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 18:21
|
#7224 (permalink) | ||||||
|
Got rid of his pee
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: -)
Posts: 11,600
|
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 18:36
|
#7225 (permalink) |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Barrow In Furness, Cumbria
Posts: 6,417
|
I think the way Liverpool have handled the situation is a disgrace...it is making kenny look like a complete moron too. It's even worse that the police gave had to give warnings in regards to the game on Saturday when fergie sent letters out asking people to behave in a respectable manner...kenny should have done this too...
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 20:28
|
#7227 (permalink) |
|
First Team Regular
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Stretford
Posts: 14,321
|
If you're on twitter I recommend you take a look at the #suarezmoments hashtag. It was launched by LFC for fans to post their best Suarez moments since he was signed a year ago.
To say it's not going according to plan is an understatement. 
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 20:35
|
#7228 (permalink) | |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: we're just floating in space over molten rock.
Posts: 4,932
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 21:20
|
#7229 (permalink) | ||
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Dark side of the moon
Posts: 5,517
|
Some quality tweets, some of the funniest are actually Liverpool fans getting in a huff
Quote:
Quote:
|
||
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 21:31
|
#7231 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Dark side of the moon
Posts: 5,517
|
Stumbled upon this while I was looking at twitter, seems Liverpool have admitted some mistakes apparently
Liverpool 'admit mistakes' over Suarez racism row - Channel 4 News Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 21:50
|
#7232 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Regular
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 17,637
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 21:50
|
#7233 (permalink) |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Lynne, these are sex people!
Posts: 4,647
|
What annoys me (apart from everything else that's happened), is that Liverpool and their fans are trying to appear to be 'bigger people' and saying "Let's not let hatred get in the way of our great rivalry". As if United were the ones who started it and kept it going. I swear, after months of digging up any old shit to try to support their warped view that Suarez isn't a racist (again, he wasn't banned for being a racist, you idiots), they're now appealing for calm and that neither set of fans should 'ruin the game'.
The fucking hypocrisy of the cunts. Victims-R-Us. |
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 22:24
|
#7236 (permalink) | ||
|
As creative with a computer as Paul Scholes is with a ball
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: A pair of feckin' women's knickers!
Posts: 8,768
|
Quote:
Quote:
Hmmm, I think we should tell SAF that he's doing it wrong. |
||
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 22:32
|
#7237 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Sub
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 5,432
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 22:38
|
#7238 (permalink) | |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Beyond
Posts: 3,196
|
Quote:
Where is Torres now ? clearly the work of SAF. |
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 22:39
|
#7239 (permalink) | |
|
First Team Regular
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Getting Distracted by Emma Stone.
Posts: 19,086
|
Quote:
|
|
|
|
|
|
27th January 2012, 22:41
|
#7240 (permalink) | |
|
Reserve Team Player
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Beyond
Posts: 3,196
|
Quote:
maybe, he meant this Ajax 
|
|
|
|
|
