Jarrod Bowen under investigation for racist tweet
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Under investigation for poor grammar too, I’d imagine
Don't they teach grammar in UK schools?
He was what, about 13? Come on!
So he would’ve been 15, definitely old enough to know better but I think punishing people for stuff they said as an adolescent is a step too far.
Going back through players tweets from when they were a teenager to stir up controversy is about as classy as the tweet in question.
Stinks it really does, then exposing it is even worse.
That 'their' is more offensive than the tweet itself.
Nine years ago though. Surely there has to be some sort of limitation on this. I'm not sure about English law but in Hungary, if it turned out that, for example, I stole a car nine years ago, I couldn't be punished for it at this point unless the car's value was above €1m.
Don't think anything should be made of this, he was 15.
Is it any wonder why trust and respect for journalists is at an all-time nadir? I know very few people who've ever cared about the dredging up of a teenager's tweets but these stories keep materializing, so I guess someone is eating this crap up.
Tweeted from a Blackberry 
what’s next, digging up MySpace posts? A line has to be drawn somewhere.
what’s next, digging up MySpace posts? A line has to be drawn somewhere.“Well done, he’s 13.”
It was 9 years ago, he was a child and what he said wasn't really that bad.
If he gets any sort of punishment for this it will be a joke.
"I was an idiot when I was a kid, I was trying to be funny, I'm embarrassed I did it and sorry" should be the end of this.
If he gets any sort of punishment for this it will be a joke.
"I was an idiot when I was a kid, I was trying to be funny, I'm embarrassed I did it and sorry" should be the end of this.
Journalists would sell out their own mother for a story. And in todays world, everyone is a journalist.
I doubt journalists found the tweets. It’s those dumb football Twitter accounts.
Someone is going through every footballer's/celebrity's social media to find something embarrassing/wrong they did or wrote in the past. Who cares what Bowen tweeted in 2012 as a teenage boy.
The worst of the worst them lot
all the people getting on their high horses about it will most likely work in a much less ethnically and racially diverse field. I’m sure Bowen has many more friends from different backgrounds than your average person who starts making something out of this. He was a teenager chatting shit to a friend when nobody gave a feck about his Twitter. Big deal.
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Considering Cavanis punishment, they sure as feck should punish Bowen.
They will punish him, i'd be shocked if they dont. They have to now, since they did it for every minor incident in the past.
9 years ago...feck me let it go.
How would they punish him for that. I mean he was a kid come on.
Are they serious ?
Does the blocked out hashtag begin with a W or an N?
N apparently. It's obviously a shitty thing to type and by 15 you're old enough to know better but as others have said he was technically a child and he wasn't a professional footballer then.
At 15, you know its wrong but still..you're 15 and you say dumb shit on the regular. Punishing people for what they said as kids is baffling.
Life in prison.
It’s all over Twitter if you really want to know
I honestly can’t believe people have time to search out that shite. I did loads of stuff that offended people when I was a youth, thankfully no twatter/ Facebook etc around then.
Makes you wonder how pure these do-gooders who are out in force currently Have been for their entire existence. Must be great to have never done anything wrong ever and to go around highlighting others faults.
It won’t. The furore over Cavani will have set a precedent. If it was let go the shitstorm over that will be greater than the actual offence
Cavani is a man in his mid 30s. Bowen was a kid and posted that a decade ago.
Big difference.
Not even racist in my opinion.
My thought exactly.
Jesus it was almost a decade ago!
Whatever your feelings about that, historical tweets are not exempt from punishment whether they’re social media justice or from professional bodies.
If pundits are weighing in with their opinion and the fallout over the ex FA chairman Greg Clarke still raw, I can’t see anything other than a ban and fine.
The hashtag is absolutely racist.
Shouldn’t that be, ‘ me thoughts exactly’?My thought exactly.
He won't get a ban or a fine. He was a child.
Maybe I'm not well-versed enough in racial epithets and such, but what could be the word starting with W?