Would that include the Carabao game against us?
Bentancur racial slur | Banned for 7 games
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This sets a new low in FA rules.
Enzo - Directly and energically insulting and denigrating his Club teammates on live social media. No sanction.
Betancur - Indireclty joking on a friend's appearance. 6 match ban.
God bless western civilization political correctness!
Enzo - Directly and energically insulting and denigrating his Club teammates on live social media. No sanction.
Betancur - Indireclty joking on a friend's appearance. 6 match ban.
God bless western civilization political correctness!
Why has this taken so long?
*check's who Spurs' 7th domestic game from now is against*
Yeah, makes sense.
Yeah, makes sense.
So how is Enzo thing a FIFA/CONMEBOL issue and this one an FA issue?
7 game ban confirmed.
Is he banned for the Brazil game?
Yeah. He misses games against City, Chelsea, United and Liverpool.
No it's just domestic, he can play for Uruguay and in Spurs' Europa League games
we’ll have to wait and see, his agent said “we will be appealing, we feel 7 games is velly harsh.”
It's due to a weird technicality in regards to being released/not released by your club.That's incredible, he said this in Uruguay to a Uruguay TV station.
Enzo is still being investigated by FIFA as it’s in their jurisdiction
What if it wasn't Bentancur but his cousin?
Good. Prick!
It's explained here: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c86q570vw6xo. Enzo Fernandez was on international duty during his incident, so the FA isn't allowed to do anything about that. Betancur is receiving a harsher penalty because, even though he first apologized, he then made some sarcastic comebacks.
Enzo will probably receive something similar, if not more
So this is what we're continuing to call casual and blatant racism? Unbelievable.
God bless Western privilege of denigrating people from different ethnic backgrounds and saying they're all the same!
How could we tell?
Oh give it a rest pal.
Do you not have the mental capacity to distinguish a joke from outright racism? Seriously? How do you live your life? Are you literally triggered by every, tiny joke that has any kind of racial slur in it?
Even Son said he wasn't offended by it and please don't tell me you've never, ever thought that Asian people look very similar, because they do. I had a friend who worked for the DVLA and he said that driving offences were 'higher' among Asians, simply because a lot hadn't passed their driving tests, but were using their brothers or cousins driving licences because it was harder for the Police to tell them apart. That's actually a fact, whether it triggers you or not.
There's a huge difference between someone coming out and saying they hate Koreans because 'they all look the same' and light heartedly joking with a pal about his team mate Son, over his appearance.
If I had a pound for every person who's made fun of my appearance being Scottish, I'd be a millionaire.
Relax, or you'll die of stress before you know it. Your quest to sterilise life completely isn't possible.
This is a weird post. One of those asking another post to calm down whilst popping a nerve themselves sorts.
Well done mate, you called me out. I'm high strung all the time and my pea-sized inferior brain can't tell that a joke based on someone's racial characteristics wouldn't be a joke at all if it weren't for pre-exisiting racial stereotypes and bias. Remember to criticise my post and what I've written, not me.
"Asian" (of which just under 60% of the world's population is) people may look similar to you through no fault of your own if you had a lower exposure to the diversity of East Asian faces at earlier ages of brain development (Lee, Quinn, Pascalis, 2017). Does that give people a free pass to either: minimise individuality and difference based on a racial stereotype, or, abuse the fact that some people need to spend more time to discern whether someone's actually who they're claiming to be on an ID?
Your claim that I'm trying to sterilise the world is way off base. There are ways to joke and entertain without relying on race and ethnicity for a cheap laugh. People in the Rome loved to watch the lions maul slaves for an evening of fun. People in the American South would gather for a spot of light entertainment at the local lynching.
What can be considered fun, light-hearted, entertaining, can and does evolve over time. Next time, before you tr oops, looks like I died of stress before finishing my post - looks like you might have been right after all ; )
Dunno how I can live a normal life without making racist jokes every once in a while. What’s the world coming to?
I think it is party a business decision. The EPL is very popular in Asia and is a significant revenue stream and audience. Betancur doesn't seem like the most sophisticated person and he probably meant it as friendly joke. But from a business standpoint, the EPL can't look like they are brushing aside racism against Asians, especially as dumb racist comments are becoming something of a standard for players on the Argentina national team.
7 games is significant. Any reason why this is so much longer than previous incidents?
All these bans seem the same to me
Seems like the FA is trying to send a message, but I agree that with the mitigating factors of Son's apology (which could also be influenced by PR damage control) that 7 games seems excessive - I would think 3 or 4 would be more apt if the FA did want to still enforce a ban (to make it either the same as a straight red card, or just above).
It's not:
Betancur is also from Uruguay, so not sure what Argentina has to do with it.
This part just seems ridiculous to me
The Bentancur incident happened while he was with the squad 6 days before the start of the Copa America but that doesn't count as being on international duty? I mean if we're really being pedantic, technically the Copa was over when Enzo did his thing. Silly.
Don't think so FIFA aren't interested because banning half the world champions is bad for business.
I have to admit I don't know myself what the rules say exactly, but that's how it's being reported. It appears true given who's actioning what, but I agree that it's rather nonesensical.
The decision says that 6 is the minimum
and 12 the maximum. The panel agrees it’s towards the less serious end of the spectrum so decides on 7 games. He might have got 6 I guess had he not tried to run the “I was being sarcastic” defence.
I think it’s a funny one. Especially if Fifa just bins it, which would make a bit of a mockery out of everything.
If you’re going to say/do something racist, make sure you do it while you’re away on international duty
Ha. That certainly seems to be the moral of the story. So do we know what's happened in the Enzo Fernandez situation? Has it actually been officially binned or are we just assuming so given the length of time? I remember an official complaint was lodged to FIFA in July. How long does it take to bring someone to task?
It'l was half a bus load of players signing that song. It's gonna take a while to sort out their punishment.